Tariffs On India’s Russian Oil Purchases ‘Big Blow’ To Moscow, Says Trump Before Putin Meet | India News

Before his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Monday, US President Donald Trump (local time) said that the US’s 50 percent tariffs on Russian oil imports were a “big blow” on Moscow economy.

While addressing the White House briefing, Trump said that the Russian economy did not perform well.

“The economies are not good right now because it was very uncomfortable. He said.

Trump claimed that he was ready to take more action, but received a call from Putin. “I didn’t stop there. I mean, I was all ready to do much bigger than that. But I got a call they wanted to meet and I will see what they want to meet.”

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USA-Russia Agreement

The US President also expressed optimism among nations about the possibility of normal trade and said he would know if an agreement could be made in the first two minutes of the meetings.

When asked if he saw a normal trade between the United States and Russia, Trump said, “I do. If Russia has a very valuable land.

“We will have a meeting with Vladimir Putin. And at the end of this meeting, I will probably know exactly whether an agreement can be made in the first two minutes.”

USA in the Russian-Ukraine conflict

Trump describes the meeting with Russia as a “great agreement”, “I will look for European leaders. They’re tired of it (Russia-Ukraine War). They want to go back to spending money on their countries. They want to go back to build their own countries.

“There are too many European leaders and they trust me very much. If it wasn’t for me, this thing would never be solved until the last person dies. It will be a good meeting and we will go one step further. We will do it. I want to see it very quickly.”

The US President also expressed his views on the Ukrainian conflict and said, “If I were president, this war would not be. This Joe Biden’s war. This is not my war.” He plans to call Putin to end the war, “That’s why I will talk to Vladimir Putin. And I’ll tell him, you have to finish this war. And he won’t deal with me.”

“The next meeting will be Zelensky and Putin or Zelensky and Putin and I. If they need me, I will be there, but I want to have a meeting between the two leaders.”

Trump said he met with Putin to see what the parameters of a peace agreement could be before talking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders.

(With memory entrances)