WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would likely impose sanctions on Russia if its president, Vladimir Putin, refuses to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
Trump did not provide details on possible additional sanctions. The United States has already imposed tough sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Trump said his administration is also looking at the issue of sending weapons to Ukraine, adding that the European Union should do more to support Ukraine.
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“We are talking to (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskiy, we are going to talk to President Putin very soon,” Trump said. “We're going to look into it.”
Trump said he had pressured Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call to intervene to stop the war in Ukraine.
'He didn't do much with that. He has a lot of… power, just like we have a lot of power. I said, 'You have to arrange it.' We did discuss it.”
(Reporting by Steve Holland in Washington; Writing by Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason; Editing by Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)
