Ukraine should talk to the United States about the imposition of new sanctions on Russia to press Moscow to end the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
“We are choosing the sensitive points of Russia that will most encourage Moscow to engage in diplomacy. They should take clear steps to end the war, and we insist that an unconditional and complete ceasefire is the first. Russia needs to do that,” he said.
After meeting Zelensky at the Vatican before Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday (26), US President Donald Trump made a rare criticism of his Russian homologist Vladimir Putin.
“There was no reason for Putin to be firing missiles against civilian areas, cities and villages in recent days,” Trump wrote on the Truthsocial. The week before the Pope’s funeral, Russia launched the deadliest attack on Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, since last summer.
“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop war, just encouraging me and needs to be treated differently through ‘bank sanctions’ or ‘secondary sanctions’? Many people are dying !!!”, said Trump.
Zelensky no longer provided details about when negotiations with US authorities will be made, nor about the scope of possible new sanctions.
But their comments provide more evidence that the US may be considering pressing Russia more to end the war of what they did for most of Trump’s first 100 days.
This content was originally published in Ukraine will talk to the US about new sanctions on Russia, says Zelensky on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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