Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finnish president

Alexander Stubb - who played golf with Trump this weekend - suggested deadline and US sanctions package

Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin's stalling tactics over the Ukraine ceasefire, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, said after spending several hours with the US president - including winning a golf competition with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday.

Stubb, who also spent two days with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, last week in Helsinki suggested in a Guardian interview a plan for a deadline of 20 April, by which time Putin should be required to comply with a full ceasefire.

Stubb pointed out that a third golf partner on Saturday, the Republican senator Lindsey Graham, already has a bill in the US Senate proposing what he has described as bone-breaking" US sanctions on Russia if it did not accept an unconditional ceasefire.