“We thought we had it settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” he told reporters in Edinburgh.

“You have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that’s not the way to do it. So we’ll see what happens with that.”

Trump said earlier this month that if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire within 50 days—the deadline is set for September 2—he would apply “very severe” penalties on Russia.

On Monday, however, he stated that he would “reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number,” adding, “I know the answer, what’s going to happen.”

Subsequently, he