Trump threatened Putin with sanctions
President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on Russia if it refuses to enter into negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
According to Isna, US President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions on Russia if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to negotiate to end the war in Ukraine.
According to Reuters, Trump did not provide details of these possible new US sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, the United States has imposed many and severe sanctions against Russia on the pretext of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
The new American president also said that his government is considering the issue of sending arms aid to Ukraine, and in his opinion, the European Union should take more measures to support Ukraine.
Trump said: “We are negotiating with Zelensky (President of Ukraine) and we plan to negotiate with Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia soon. We have such a thing in mind.”
The American president said that in a conversation with Xi Jinping, the Chinese president also pressured him to intervene in order to stop the war in Ukraine.
“He hasn’t done much about it,” Trump said. He has great power as we have great power. I told him that you have to resolve this situation. “We certainly discussed it.”
Trump’s comments came as the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced at the same time that the US president would start working on a ceasefire agreement for Ukraine “almost immediately” after taking office.
In his first remarks since being confirmed by the Senate as US secretary of state, Rubio told reporters that Ukraine would be Trump’s “top priority” and that efforts to achieve a ceasefire would begin immediately, but he did not give a specific timeframe for ending the conflict with Russia. did not provide
Marco Rubio said some of the preparations are “already in place,” adding that it would be a complicated process. The US Secretary of State added: “I mean, this is a complicated and bloody conflict and it has to end.”
Rubio stressed that both Ukraine and Russia would have to accept “something” as part of any deal, but he did not elaborate on what those concessions might be.
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