European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says
Donald Trump said European leaders would visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine.
US President, Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon” will speak and the management of the sanctions in Moscow showed that he is ready to move to a second stage, he added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the sanctions were “the right idea” and called for European countries to stop buying Russian energy.
It comes with Russia’s launch of the largest air bombardment in Ukraine, killing four people and hitting the main government building in Kiev for the first time.
Trump said that after the attack in Ukraine at least 810 drones and 13 missiles in Ukraine, Trump said, “He was not satisfied with the whole situation.”
“Some European leaders come to our country individually on Monday or Tuesday,” Trump said. He said. It was not clear who Trump referred to.
Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine since Trump and Putin had a summit in Alaska last month.
Speaking with ABC News, Zelensky said that the European partners who continue to receive Russian oil and gas are not “fair”.
Added: “We should stop [buying] All kinds of energy from Russia and in the meantime, any agreement with Russia. If we want to stop them, we can’t have any agreements. “
Zelensky also welcomed Trump’s plans to bring secondary tariffs to countries engaged in trade with Russia, which annoyed Moscow’s ability to finance the war.
“I think the idea of putting tariffs on countries that continue to agree with Russia, I think this is the right idea,” he said.
According to the Energy and Clean Air Research Center, Russia has sold oil and gas about $ 985 billion (£ 729 billion) since its full -scale invasion of Ukraine began in March 2022.
The biggest buyers were China and India. The EU significantly reduced the purchases of Russian energy – but not completely stopped -. In June, Brussels organized plans to end all purchases until 2027.
Last month, USA applied tariffs 50% of goods from India As a penalty to continue to receive Russian oil. The Indian government said it would continue to maintain the “best agreement” of buying oil for the economic interests of the population.
And last week, Russia said it would increase at a meeting in Beijing Gas supplies to China.
Zelensky’s intervention comes as a movement to increase the reproduction of the OPEC+ oil -producing countries, which includes Russia, and will make a downward pressure on oil prices.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, NBC’s press conference, said the US is looking for more support from the EU to apply secondary tariffs to countries that buy Russian oil.
Bessent said, if EU countries increase sanctions and secondary tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil, “the Russian economy will completely collapse and this will bring President Putin to the table.”
“Now how long the Ukrainian army can take, how long the Russian economy can take.”
