The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that the United States would begin to impose tariffs and other measures on Russia “10 days today” if Moscow did not show progress towards the end of his war of more than three years in Ukraine.
Trump announced for the first time on Monday that he was shortening the 50 -day initial deadline that he established a month ago for Moscow’s action, and mentioned a new deadline of 10 to 12 days. On Tuesday, he told journalists that he had not heard a response from Russia.
Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump said he was not worried about the potential impact of Russian sanctions on the oil market or prices, promising to boost national oil production to compensate for any impact.
“I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia, because [Russian President Vladimir Putin] He obviously wants to maintain war, “Trump said.” But we are going to put rates and the various things you put. “
The president of the United States, who in the past has spoken about having a good relationship with Putin, has been frustrated more and more with Moscow’s refusal to accept a high fire. The new deadline suggests that Trump is prepared to advance in his threat of sanctions, after doubting to do so.
Speaking in Scotland on Monday, he threatened sanctions to both Russia and buyers of their exports, also known as secondary sanctions, unless progress is made.
The United States Treasury Secretary Scott Besent told journalists that he raised the issue of secondary sanctions with Chinese officials for two days of bilateral conversations this week. He said he told Chinese officials that Beijing could face high rates if he continued his purchases of Russian oil.
In a publication about X, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Putin, said Trump was playing “a Ultimatums game” that could lead to a war that involves the United States.
The Kremlin said that he continues to monitor Trump’s statements regarding the sanctions against Moscow, but that Russia had acquired immunity to such measures thanks to the long experience.
“We have been living under a lot of sanctions for a long time, our economy operates under a lot of restrictions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“Therefore, of course, we have already developed a certain immunity in this regard, and we continue to observe all the statements that come from President Trump, other international representatives on this matter.”
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, described the threat of new “routine” sanctions and said it was strange that the United States and the West would not have even understood that imposing such measures did not work and only served to damage Western economies.
“We see that the West simply cannot ignore the issue of sanctions. It seems that they are constantly trapped in a routine,” Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow.
“Apparently, there are no other options: they have been exhausted. We are responding and taking measures to counteract all this or even turn it for our own benefit.”
Trump, who is also struggling to achieve a peace agreement in Gaza, has promoted his role in the point of putting into account conflicts between India and Pakistan, as well as Rwanda and Congo. Before returning to the White House in January, Trump campaigned in the promise to put an end to Russia’s conflict with Ukraine in one day.
