President Trump warned Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev that he risks entering “dangerous territory” after he slammed the US deadline for a cease-fire in Ukraine as “a step towards war.”
“Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!” Trump said regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top ally on Truth Social Thursday morning.
Trump announced Monday to reporters in Scotland that he was pushing up a 50-day deadline he gave Russia to end the war, calling for the three-year invasion of Ukraine to end within 10 to 12 days.
He gave Putin the original 50-day target time on July 14 and called for a peace agreement to be made between the two neighboring countries, or face economic punishment.
Medvedev, Russia’s Security Council deputy chairman, claimed the two superpowers were heading towards a war of their own if the US commander in chief continued his push to end the war.
“Trump’s playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10 … He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war,” Medvedev, 59, wrote to X on July 28.
The 78-year-old president invoked India in his response to Medvedev hours after he imposed a 25 percent tariff plus “penalty” on the country, which is set to begin on August 1.
“I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way,” he added.
Trump says he has been disappointed with his Russian adversary, who has failed to end the deadly incursion.
“I’m disappointed in him, I must be honest with you,” the commander in chief told The Post’s Miranda Devine, on the newest episode of “Pod Force One,” released Wednesday.
“We’ve had great conversations, but it hasn’t been followed up with, you know, just some very bad things have happened. Very, very bad things have happened after we’ve had conversations. And I’d leave and I’d say, ‘Well, I really thought we had it settled’ three or four times.”
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