Russia rejected President’s Donald Trump’s “ultimatum” on Tuesday calling his demand for a ceasefire in Ukraine within 50 days or the U.S. will impose secondary sanctions “quite serious.”
During a White House meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday, Trump said, “We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days. Tariffs at about 100%, you’d call them secondary tariffs.” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov responded firmly on Tuesday saying that “any attempts to make demands, especially ultimatums, are unacceptable to us,” according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.
“We need to focus on political and diplomatic work. The President of the Russian Federation has repeatedly said that we are ready to negotiate and the diplomatic path is preferable for us,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying. “If we cannot achieve our goals through diplomacy, then the SVO (war in Ukraine) will continue… This is an unshakable position. We would like Washington and NATO as a whole to take it with the utmost seriousness,” Ryabkov added.
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