Russia is brushing aside Trump's 50-day tariff ultimatum to Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, top officials dismissed the impact of new sanctions and secondary tariffs. Russia is already swamped by sanctions, but Trump also warned of new tariffs for its oil customers.

This week marked a possible pivot by President Donald Trump regarding Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Richard Blumenthal calling Trump’s threat of ramped-up economic penalties if Russia doesn’t cut a peace deal in next 50 days “a real executive hammer to drive the parties to the negotiating table.” But a day later,