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 deadline, which would’ve 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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The Treasury Department did not announce additional sanctions on Friday. Instead, President Donald Trump announced the same day that he would be meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska this coming Friday.

“This is really a feel-out meeting,” Trump said on Monday morning concerning his upcoming visit with Putin.

He said a ceasefire will include “some land-swapping,” even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly refused to agree to any deal requiring shrinking Ukraine’s interior. Trump also noted that Russia is occupying “some very prime territory,” and said they’re “going to try and get some of that territory back for Ukraine.”

Zelensky, Trump indicated, was not invited to this meeting in Alaska, though Trump said he’ll speak to him and other European leaders shortly after the Putin meeting. Trump also said he wants the next high-level engagement to be between Zelensky and Putin, and he’d join if needed.

The Trump administration did apply pressure publicly on India to stop buying Russian oil, going as far as to double its Trump tariff from 25% to 50%.

“India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits. They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine. Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA,” Trump said on social media last week.

Brazil and China are also among the top purchasers of Russian oil. Brazilian officials are bracing for the possibility that they could also be hit with an increase in their tariffs over their purchases of Russian oil, according to the Financial Times.

“You’re going to see a lot more. So this is a taste,” Trump said last Friday in the Oval Office. “You’re going to see a lot more. You’re going to see so much secondary sanctions.”

“Yeah, we’re pretty much getting close to it right now,” he added, referencing his own deadline.

The Trump administration has used the threat and the ultimate imposition of tariffs to carry out the foreign policy goals and it far exceeds just this conflict. But in this instance, possible secondary sanctions would force nations that buy Russian oil or other exports to either cut ties with Moscow or risk additional penalties from the Trump administration.

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff met with Putin in Moscow last Wednesday in a meeting that went well.

Later that day, a White House official told the Washington Examiner, “The secondary sanctions are still expected to be implemented on Friday.”

A White House official pointed the Washington Examiner on Monday to Trump’s comments about the possibility of additional sanctions from Friday. The Treasury Department and State Department did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

President Trump came into the White House for his second term with the explicit goal of trying to end the war, a divergence from President Joe Biden’s administration, which prioritized providing military aid to Ukraine to help them fight off Russian aggression. Biden’s goals were much more aligned with Zelensky, who has not been willing to surrender or make a bad deal to end the conflict.

In Trump’s first couple of months in office earlier this year, he often expressed his frustrations with both Zelensky and Putin, going as far as to blame Zelensky, and not Putin, for starting this war, even though Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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“I get along with Zelensky, but I disagree with what he’s done, very, very severely disagree. This is a war that should have never happened,” Trump said on Monday.

It’s only been in the last couple of weeks that Trump has turned the brunt of his frustration toward Putin. This culminated in the 50-day ultimatum, which the president announced last month alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.