President Donald Trump waved 'devastating' trade and economic pressure that the US could explain to Russia if President Vladimir Putin will stop -the Fires, where Ukrainian negotiators were completed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Trump issued the threat – including a considerable hedge – while discussing the efforts of the administration to put an end to the brutal war of Russia in Ukraine, of which Trump said it could again lead to the Second World War.
'There are things that would not be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do it that way because I want to get peace, “Trump said, when I was pressed by reporters about how he could close a deal.
'In a financial sense, yes, we could do things that would be very bad for Russia, that would be devastating for Russia. But I don't want to do that, “he said.
He spoke after State Secretary Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz announced that Ukraine had agreed to a cease-fire of 30 days-and Russia also agree.
He published the trading threat days ago for the first time. It was a remarkable turn of his well -experienced attitude to praise Putin as smart or even express appreciation for the Russian position, even while held an angry oval office exchange with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy.
The US has already imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia and Russian Oligarchs after the country seized the Crimea in 2014 and then launched a full invasion in 2022.
Now the fate of a potentially ceases -the fires in the hands of Russia and Trump is increasing the economic heat on the aggressor.
'There are things that would not be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia, “said Trump, when the question about what he can do if Russia does not agree with a ceasefire in the midst of the three-year war against Ukraine
Trump referred to the upcoming conversations, where envoy Steve Witkoff is expected in Moscow.
“So we have people there. Mr. VP, you have something to say about this? Because you are very involved, “Trump invited JD Vance – in a meeting where he was fooling Vance's Shamrock -socks while he met the Irish Taoiseach.
“We have some conversations that take place on the phone and personally and personally with some of our representatives in the coming days,” said Vance, who was also entangled with Zensky. “As the president said, we think we are in a very good place where the Ukrainians have agreed with cease -the Fires, and we are not going to see if we can have the Russians reduce.”
Trump was asked if Putin would honor a cease -the fire after she broke them in the past.
'We have not yet spoken to him with substance because we have just found out. We will know very quickly. I have received some positive messages, but a positive message means nothing. Very serious situation. This is a situation that can lead to the Second World War three
