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US President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional sanctions on Russia should Vladimir Putin refuse to enter into talks on ending the war in Ukraine, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
While Trump gave no details of the type of sanctions he had in mind and didn’t acknowledge the fact that the US had had strict sanctions on Russia in place since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in an apparent sign of his seriousness about ending the war as soon as possible, he did confirm that there had already been contact between his administration and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We’re talking to Zelensky, we’re going to be talking with President Putin very soon,” Trump said, adding that he had also discussed the war in Ukraine with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that he had “pressed” Xi into intervening to stop the conflict but that Xi had “not done very much on that” so far.
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