Trump Gives Russia 10 Days to Agree to Ukraine Cease-Fire or Face Sanctions

President Donald Trump will give Russia until Aug. 8 to agree to a cease-fire deal with Ukraine or face new sanctions. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on July 29 that he would grant Russian President Vladimir Putin “10 days” to come to the negotiating table in good faith or else face a new tranche of U.S. sanctions and secondary tariffs. The president expressed some skepticism as to the extent that such a move could influence Putin’s decision-making calculus, but hoped that it would help to end the war in Ukraine. “I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia, because [Putin] wants to obviously, probably keep the war going,” Trump said....