The United States is ready to expand prices targeting Russian oil buyers – if the EU takes on similar movements – to knock on Moscow Revenue for the War in Ukraine.
Going to talks between officials in the United States and the European Union, President Donald Trump increased the possibility of prices between 50% and 100% on oil buyers such as China and India, said that the manager, who was not authorized to discuss these details.
The talks intervene while the EU envoy sanctions, David O’Sullivan, who directed the global awareness of the block of the escape of sanctions by Moscow, heads a delegation in Washington for meetings Monday and Tuesday.
Trump made discussions on Tuesday alongside the Ukrainian Prime Minister, said the American official.
“The source of money for the Russian war machine is oil purchases by China and India,” added the official. “If you do not get the source of money, there is no way to stop the war machine.”
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The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, and the officials of the office and the State Department of the American commercial representative.
But the head of the government stressed that although Trump is “ready to leave”, he thinks that “the EU must be with us”.
Another American official has referred to a bill with 85 Senate co -sponsors who would authorize Trump to impose secondary prices on commercial countries with Russia – but wondered if the European Parliament “has political will” to intensify economic pressure via prices.
In addition to potential prices, which were Trump’s favorite option, officials also discussed the question of immobilized Russian sovereign assets.
Trump had threatened to impose more sanctions on Russia on Sunday after the Kremlin sparked its largest air dam in Ukraine.
He also threatened to penalize countries that buy Russian oil, seeking to cut a key source of income for the war of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But so far, he has only struck India with so -called secondary sanctions.
“We want to become serious. We want to make this war with it, and we therefore strongly encourage our European friends to move,” the American official said on Tuesday.
The EU is preparing a new series of sanctions against Russia, marking its 19th since the invasion of Moscow in 2022. He said that this should include more secondary sanctions targeting countries that help Moscow to avoid punishment.
Germany and France push to target the Russian oil giant Lukoil as part of the new EU sanctions cycle, diplomats announced on Monday.
Bessent wrote in an article on X after Monday’s meeting that “all the options remain on the table” as part of Trump’s strategy to support peace negotiations between Moscow and kyiv.
The Treasury Department did not immediately have a comment during Tuesday talks.
