France24 and CBS News journalist Jennifer Jacobs report this.When asked for clarification by journalists, Trump said that Witkoff’s mission in Moscow would be to negotiate a deal “where people stop getting killed.”“We stopped a lot of wars, this one should be the easiest one to stop but it's not,” he added.The White House chief also commented on sanctions against Moscow.“There'll be sanctions, but they seem to be pretty good at avoiding sanctions. They're wily characters and they're pretty good at avoiding sanctions, so we'll see what happens,” Trump said, according to The Jerusalem Post.On July 28, Donald Trump said he was disappointed with Vladimir Putin and planned to shorten the 50-day deadline for the ceasefire with Ukraine that he had previously set.On July 28, Dmitry Medvedev threatened war with the U.S. in response to the reduced deadline of 10–12 days that Donald Trump gave Putin to make peace with Ukraine.On July 29, the American president announced he had shortened the deadline for Russian leader Vladimir Putin to reach a ceasefire in Ukraine to 10 days.On July 31, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will make another visit to Russia.