The move means Trump is walking back the 50-day deadline he set this month in response to Russia's continued bombing of Ukrainian cities.

Kyiv and Moscow have held three rounds of talks in Istanbul this year that yielded exchanges of prisoners and bodies.

After August 8, Donald Trump's new devastating tariffs and sanctions will leave Russia without friends or trading partners, effectively cutting off its ability to finance the war, states US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker in an interview with Newsmax TV.