Washington – A team of European officials, led by EU sanctions David O’Sullivan, will visit the US Treasury on Monday to discuss various forms of economic pressure to develop Russia, including new sanctions, said the person who met.
The person who spoke of the condition of anonymity in the view of the meeting said that Finance Minister Scott Bessnt spoke on Friday before the meeting with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
The meeting comes when President Donald Trump was increasingly frustrated by his inability to end the 3 1/2 -year Russian war in Ukraine, caused by the Moscow invasion. Trump in vain tried to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkyy for direct conversations aimed at ending the war, although he organized a summit with the Russian leader last month.
It also comes as a term stored by Trump, which was set in August, so that the Kremlin has ended its invasion since then.
Officials with the White House, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the US Sales representative are expected to attend Monday’s meetings. The European team includes employees focused on energy, sanctions, financial services and trade.
Since Putin’s summit with Trump, Russia has launched a rare attack on Western Ukraine last month a rare and missile attack on Western Ukraine and hit an American electronic plant. Trump expressed growing anger against Putin, but stopped depositing new sanctions.
Trump told reporters in an oval office when he met Polish President Karol Nawrocki this week that anything Putin would decide to do “Be happy. And if we are unhappy, you will see things happen.”
And on Thursday, Trump urged the European leaders to stop buying Russian oil, which finances the war, and emphasizing that Russia received EUR 1.1 billion in EU fuel for one year, according to the White House official. Trump also stressed that European leaders must exert economic pressure on China on indirect funding for Russia’s war effort, according to an official who was not entitled to publicly comment on private interviews and talk about the state of anonymity.
Meanwhile, European leaders continue to meet separately and commit to deploying potential peaceful forces in Ukraine, which Moscow repeatedly described as “unacceptable”.
Putin said on Friday that any foreign unit deployed to Ukraine, while the Russian invasion is taking place, Moscow would be considered “legitimate goals”.
Associated Press Aamer Madhani contributed to this report.
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