• The US has imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.
• President Donald Trump said he had canceled an anticipated meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin because he “didn’t feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get.”
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the sanctions, while Russia’s Foreign Ministry criticized the move as “entirely counterproductive,” and insisted that it would not “pose any particular problems” for the economy.
The Trump administration has sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies – the first time it has imposed direct costs on Moscow over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The move wraps a week in which US President Donald Trump suggested he would provide Ukraine with new weapons, then backtracked, then said he would hold another summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, before backtracking again.
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