U.S. President Donald Trump expressed deep disappointment over Vladimir Putin's unwillingness to end the war against Ukraine and threatened to take action on the matter as early as August.

The market will resolve to YES if, from 00:00 UTC on July 10 by 11:59 p.m. UTC on July 31, 2025, an officially published U.S. legal act - a federal law, presidential executive order, or other formal decision - introduces new blocking sanctions on Russian state-owned or private assets, including third-party dealings with those assets.

Data source: the official U.S. Department of the Treasury website (treasury.gov), OFAC sanctions press-release section, and, if applicable, the enacted federal law on congress.gov or the presidential order text.