MILAN — Donald Trump’s push for a Ukraine-Russia peace deal to be reached by the end of this week is unrealistic, experts say, as substantive progress is improbable without a major shift on the battlefield.

On July 28, the U.S. president announced that he was shortening the initial 50-day deadline previously granted to Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine to “10 or 12 days from today.”

While the nature of this decision may have been more of a political pressure tactic to get the Russian official to the negotiation table, it implied that the revised deadline for such talks was now Aug. 8.

However, even with the threat of additional sanctions on the horizon and a possible meeting between Trump and Putin, experts share a skeptical outlook regarding any progress be

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