Trump’s Russia sanction deadline comes and goes with a whimper

Published August 11, 2025 2:23pm ET



President Donald Trump’s self-imposed deadline to impose economic penalties on Russia for failing to end its war in Ukraine came and went without an announcement of new sanctions.

The president announced on July 29 that he was expediting his initial 50-day period, which would have ended in early September, to 10 days, which expired last Friday. Trump threatened that if Russia failed to make a deal to end the war before that deadline, he would impose tariffs on Russia and secondary sanctions on countries that still buy their oil.

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