News Summary

• Russian news outlets have been rather dismissive of Trump's announcement.
• A retired lieutenant-general told Kommersant that the US president's talk of submarines was "meaningless blather" Trump had been sparring with Medvedev on social media for several days.
• The US president had reduced his 50-day deadline for Russia to end its war in Ukraine to less than two weeks.Medvedev's next post contained a reference to "Dead Hand", the automatic nuclear retaliation system developed in the Soviet Union.