US senators say agreement reached with Trump on Russia sanctions bill
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) – Four U.S. senators said on Friday they had reached an agreement with President Donald Trump’s administration to move forward on updated legislation on sanctions against Russia.
“We are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement with the Trump Administration to move forward our updated Russia sanctions legislation. We are very pleased with this important progress and expect to introduce the legislation very soon,” Senators Richard Blumenthal, Lindsey Graham, Jeanne Shaheen and Roger Wicker said in a statement. they said.
“As Russia intensifies its massacre of civilians, it is imperative that the legislative and executive branches work together to create the means to impose heavy costs on buyers of Russian oil and natural gas and to fuel Putin’s war machine,” the statement said. The statement was included.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The legislation, which Graham has been working on for months with Republicans and Democrats, would impose sanctions on countries doing business with Russia, including buyers of energy exports, over Moscow’s failure to negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ankara earlier this week. The tone of the meeting was a sharp departure from Trump’s harsh criticism of Zelenskiy in the past, including Trump calling him “ungrateful.”
On Wednesday, Trump said the two had developed a “very good” relationship and that both Moscow and Kiev wanted to end the war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Katharine Jackson)
