US President Donald Trump on Sunday (September 7) announced in the White House that he was ready to escalate sanctions against Russia in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Trump did not provide detailed temporal time or the specifics of potential measures. When he talked to reporters outside the White House, he replied, “Yeah, I’m,” he asked if he was ready to impose more sanctions on Russia.
Try to make stronger sanctions against Russian oil buyers
US Finance Minister Scott Bessnt indicated on Sunday that the United States is ready to cooperate with European nations to store other sanctions on countries buying Russian oil, with the aim of the “collapse” of the Russian economy.
“We are ready to raise pressure on Russia, but we need our European partners to watch us,” said Besbent NBC News.
Bessnt emphasized the urgency of the coordinated action and created it as a race between the military resistance of Ukraine and Russian economic endurance.
“We are now in race between how long the Ukrainian army can last, on the other hand, how long the Russian economy can endure? And if the US and (European Union) can come, make more sanctions, secondary tariffs to countries buying Russian oil, the Russian economy will be in the overall collapse.
Previous measures and continued tension
Comments come after Trump’s administration deposited 50% of tariffs on India last month and focused on further purchase of Russian oil in the middle of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The statement agreed that Russia launched its biggest aerial attack of the conflict overnight, killed at least four people, and lit a government building in Kiev.
Ukraine supports tariffs on Russian oil buyers
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zlensky expressed an agreement with the idea of introducing tariffs to nations that continue to buy oil and gas from Russia.
“I am very grateful to all partners, but some of them, I think, continue to buy oil and Russian gas and it is not fair,” Zelsky said in the reports of ABC.
“I think what I think, I think the idea of putting tariffs on countries that continue to conclude agreements with Russia. I think this right idea,” he added.
He also indicated the match with Trump’s criticism of European countries that still buys Russian energy.
Stopped peace interviews
The notes are governed by the recent meetings of President Trump on Alaska with Vladimir Putin and subsequent discussions with Zelena and European leaders in the White House about the possible end of the war. Despite this effort, interviews about the ceasefire stopped and Russian air strikes continue after Ukraine.
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