The President of the United States finally called Russia an “aggression”, and in his environment expressed their readiness to impose sanctions.
US president Donald Trump has finally called the Russian Federation a war aggression against Ukraine. Remembering the losses to Ukrainian and Russian troops, he told reporters on Sunday: “This week 8,000 soldiers died on both sides. A bit more from Russia, but when you were an aggression, you lost more.”
There was no official confirmation of his words, but the statement has once again showed the strengthening of Trump’s negative position related to Moscow.
Rhetoric change
According to Politico, the head of the White House earlier refused to judge Moscow for the invasion, and his administration in February cooperated with Russia and North Korea, who rejected the UN resolution in support of Ukraine’s territory integrity and the condemnation of the Russian federation. The United States also refused the G7 statement, in which Russia was called an aggression in February.
Trump then accused Ukraine of war, saying in April: “You do not start a war against someone 20 times more than you, and then you expect people to give you many missiles.”
However, as the notes of the publication, during the tag -the US president’s position changed: now his administration is conducting a pressure increase in Vladimir Putin.
“I thought it would be easy”
During the appeal to journalists before landing the Board Air Force One, Trump also noted that the end of the war in Ukraine was more difficult than he expected.
“I thought this (the Russian war in Ukraine) would be an easy thing for me, but it failed to fail. The hate between Zelensky and Putin couldn’t understand. They hated each other,” he said.
Later, Trump answered one of the journalists about the possible meeting deadlines, noting that it could occur “relatively close”, and that the assembly format was a summit or just a meeting, the main thing was the participation of the states.
“There will be negotiations – either a summit, or just a meeting, it doesn’t matter. But maybe I have to participate. They hate each other so they can hardly talk,” Trump added.
Condition for Europe
Since Trump’s earlier position could not push Putin into negotiations with Zelensky, the US administration faced the increasing calls to impose a stronger penalty against Russia.
On Sunday, Trump said he plans to do this, but only after Europe stopped buying Russia’s oil and strengthened its own penalty regime.
Although Trump called European countries his “friend”, “they still bought oil from Russia. I don’t want them to buy oil. And the penalties they introduced were not enough.”
“I’m ready to move forward, but they should do it too. When we impose new penalties, it will be very powerful, very powerful,” the American president emphasized.
However, according to the New York Times, surrounded by Trump understands that this request will probably remain unfinished, as a number of EU countries continues to buy energy sources in Russia, and this is, as notes, the main reason why he really does not rush into new penalties.
Note that Hungary and Slovakia are the largest oil buyers from the Russian Federation and opposed the European Commission’s efforts for its gradual termination.
The word is the president
On Friday, US Minister of Energy Chris Wright told Politico that the United States wants to “give Russia’s whole gas”, adding: “We can more hurt Russia’s ability to finance this bloody war, better for all of us.”
The US Congress is also focused on imposing sanctions against Moscow, but the final decision depends on the president, said a House of Representative Mike Johnson’s spokesman.
“In my opinion, desperate hours are demanding desperate measures, and sanctions against Russia have long been rushed. Congress has a great desire to do so. But the President must sign any decision,” he said in an interview with CBS News.
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Source: korrespondent
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