Putin Mum On Trump's 50-day Ultimatum, Kremlin Officials Claim Russia 'didn't Care'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to publically respond to nan 50-day ultimatum President Donald Trump issued him, though 1 apical charismatic connected Tuesday suggested that Moscow "didn’t care."

Deputy Chair of Russia’s information assembly and erstwhile Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took to X to definitive nan Kremlin’s first guidance to nan associated announcement by Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that Putin has 50 days to extremity its war successful Ukraine aliases look 100% tariffs. 

President Donald Trump, right, and Mark Rutte, caput wide of nan North Atlantic Treaty Organization, shingle hands during a gathering successful nan Oval Office of nan White House successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday, July 14, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to nan Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting nan consequences," Medvedev said. "Belligerent Europe was disappointed. 

"Russia didn’t care," he added. 

Reactions to Trump’s latest vexation pinch Putin were mixed, arsenic Rutte championed nan move arsenic "logical," though apical European Union officials suggested nan move lacked teeth this acold into nan war. 

"On nan 1 hand, it is very affirmative that President Trump is taking a beardown stance connected Russia. On nan different hand, 50 days is simply a very agelong clip if we spot that they are sidesplitting guiltless civilians, besides each day," nan EU’s main diplomat Kaja Kallas told reporters from Brussels erstwhile asked astir nan president’s announcement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and past Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev get to nan Red Square Victory Day Parade connected May 9, 2019 successful Moscow. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)

"It is clear that we each request to put much unit connected Russia truthful that they would besides want peace," she added. "It is bully that nan Americans are making nan steps, and I dream that they are besides giving subject assistance for illustration Europeans are giving."

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko besides questioned nan effectiveness of nan move and told German news outlet ARD that "I’m happy astir nan activity of support from nan U.S."

"But connected nan different hand, I do not understand why Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is being fixed 50 days," he added, according to a translator by Ukrainian media outlets, Kyiv Independent. 

"In 50 days, galore much group could beryllium killed successful nan superior and, passim Ukraine, galore much buildings could beryllium damaged," he said. "Therefore, why specified a delay?"

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko holds group distant from a five-story residential building that partially collapsed aft a shelling successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected March 18, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Trump told reporters connected Monday that he was disappointment by Putin’s deficiency of action erstwhile it came to stopping his warfare successful Ukraine contempt 4 abstracted occasions erstwhile nan president thought a woody had been reached pinch nan Kremlin chief.

"I speak to him a batch astir getting this point done, and I ever bent up saying, ‘Well, that was a bully telephone call,’ and past missiles are launched into Kyiv aliases immoderate different city, and I'd opportunity 'strange,'" Trump said, recounting his conversations pinch Putin.

"And aft that happens 3 aliases 4 times, you say, nan talk doesn't mean anything."