US President, Donald Trump has expressed openness to new congressional sanctions against Russia.
‘Any country that does business with Russia will be very severely sanctioned,’ Trump told journalists at Palm Beach Airport on Sunday evening, November 16.
He continued that was ‘OK’ with him. ‘We may add Iran to the formula,’ he said.
However in late October, the US government imposed new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies.
The move was a response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to end the ‘senseless war’ against Ukraine, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The sanctions are intended to increase pressure on Russia’s energy sector and thus curtail the Kremlin’s ability to finance its war machine.
Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, after meeting with Trump Friday, November 14, that he had received assurances from the US president that his country would be able to continue importing crude oil from Russia despite US sanctions on Moscow.
