US President Donald Trump has given Vladimir Putin a strict deadline to end the war on Ukraine.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday morning, Trump said he will impose ‘very severe tariffs’ on Russia if President Putin does not agree to a ceasefire deal in 50 days.

‘We’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,’ said Trump.

‘It’s very simple, and they’ll be at 100%.’

Trump said he was ‘disappointed’ in Putin because he thought a deal would come through two months ago.

‘It’s just the way it is,’ said the US president.

‘I hope we don’t have to do it.’

Trump reiterated his complaints about Putin after blasting his ‘bulls***’ during peace talks last week. The US president said his conversations with his Russian counterpart are ‘always very pleasant’.

‘I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done, and I always hang up say, “Well, that was a nice phone call,”‘ Trump said.

‘And then missiles launched into Kyiv or some other city, and I said, “strange.”

‘And after that happens three or four times, you say, “The talk doesn’t mean anything.”‘

Trump added of Putin: ‘He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden – he didn’t fool me.’

The US president also suggested that he does not want to be blamed if Putin does not agree to peace by the deadline.

‘I do want to make one statement again: I said it before, this is not Trump’s war,’ he said.

The Kremlin did not immediately respond to Trump’s message.

But Russian senior lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev did not seem to take Trump’s words seriously.

‘Oh, how much can change both on the battlefield and with the mood of those leading the US and NATO in 50 days,’ he stated.

Trump has warned Russia about sanctions repeatedly but not followed through.

The US president also said he will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine to help in its defense against Russia. The weapons will be ‘quickly distributed to the battlefield’, Trump said.

As Trump issued the threat, seven regions in northern and eastern Ukraine were under air alerts after drones killed four people and injured 21 others in the Kharkiv and Sumy areas.

He announced the threat to Russia during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Trump has threatened to hit European imports with 30% sanctions. Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Rasmussen, called it ‘absolutely unacceptable and unjustified’ and said that Europe does ‘not want a trade war’ with America.

The European Union’s trade commissioner said they are considering retaliatory tariffs if Trump moves forward.

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