WASHINGTON DC — US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a leading Democrat on foreign policy, on Monday expressed caution after President Donald Trump announced a significantly shorter deadline for Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
Trump, speaking in Great Britain alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, stated he was setting a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for a peace deal, abandoning his previous 50-day timeline.
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“There’s no reason in waiting,” Trump said, citing a lack of progress in negotiations.
Shaheen, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, underscored the urgency of the situation.
“Too many innocent lives are at stake for President Trump to let Putin continue playing him for time,” she said in a statement.
While calling the shortened deadline a “positive step,” Shaheen added it was “long overdue.”
She urged Trump to “match his words with real action and not let Putin cross yet another red line,” and called for continued bipartisan congressional efforts “to impose punishing sanctions on the Kremlin and ensure Ukraine has the support it needs to finally bring Putin to the negotiating table.”
Trump’s initial 50-day period, set July 14, would have extended into early September before potential “severe tariffs” and other penalties would be imposed on Russia.
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Diplomatic efforts have yielded minimal results recently. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met last week in Istanbul, primarily agreeing on a prisoner exchange.
Ukraine had proposed a summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin by late August, but Moscow indicated such a meeting would only be appropriate for signing a final agreement. Putin has not attended any of the direct talks, despite Trump’s urging.
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