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Russia and North Korea only nations to not face US tariffs, while goods from Ukraine will face new 10% levy
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The White House<\/a> has defended its decision to not include Russia<\/a> on its expansive list of countries that will face major new tariffs starting today.
US sanctions on Moscow already \u201cpreclude any meaningful trade\u201d, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios on Wednesday. At the same time, war-hit Ukraine<\/a> is facing 10 per cent tariffs from the US administration. <\/a>
It comes as Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s top negotiator, Kirill Dmitriev, held meetings in Washington<\/a>.
Mr Putin’s investment envoy and one of the most US-savvy members of Russia’s elite, Mr Dmitriev, met with US officials in Washington<\/a> yesterday. The highest-ranking Russian official to visit the US since the invasion in February 2022, he is visiting on invitation from Mr Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
His visit comes at a time when the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine<\/a> to agree to a ceasefire. As he unveiled his tariffs on Wednesday, Mr Trump hailed \u201cgood cooperation\u201d between Russia and Ukraine while underlining his desire to stop the war. <\/a><\/a><\/a>
Ukrainian women are taking jobs once reserved for men, who are being drafted to the front lines in the war with Russia<\/a> – from driving tractors to working in coal mines.
Kateryna Koliadiuk – a 19-year-old Ukrainian agronomy student – spotted an ad seeking women to enrol in a tractor driving course and decided to try.
But the industrial vehicle was huge and complex, and she wasn\u2019t sure she could operate it.
\u201cIn the beginning I was so scared. In the beginning I couldn\u2019t do this,\u201d she said. She now drives with authority, her manicured fingers resting at the wheel.
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Moscow has accused Kyiv of launching \u201cprovocative\u201d attacks on Russian energy facilities despite a US-brokered halt on such strikes.
Ukraine has also accused Russia of violating the truce, with Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accusing Putin\u2019s forces of attacking energy infrastructure in the Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Mr Zelensky said Kyiv was reporting Russian ceasefire violations to the US on a daily basis.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine has used western weapons to carry out more than 30 attacks on energy infrastructure in Russia.
“The attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure are targeted and are purely provocative and demonstrative,” she told reporters. Moscow has said it reserves the right to withdraw from the energy ceasefire if it is violated by Ukraine.
Donald Trump has hailed \u201cgood cooperation\u201d between Russia and Ukraine as he underlined his desire to stop the war.
Speaking from the White House as he announced tariffs on US imports of goods from around the world, Mr Trump said: “We’re going to get it stopped.”
He added: “It’s a senseless war that would have never happened if I was president and it shouldn’t be allowed to go on.
\u201cAnd I think we’ve been given good cooperation by Russia and by Ukraine, but we have to get it stopped.
“It’s humanity. It’s humanity. It’s a terrible thing.”
A team from Ukraine may be coming to the United States as soon as this week or next week, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg Television yesterday, amid efforts to end the war with Russia.
Last week, the top US official had said Ukraine may sign an economic deal this week.
“We have passed along a completed document for the economic partnership (that) is currently being reviewed by Ukrainians, and we hope to go to full discussions and perhaps even get signatures next week,” Mr Bessent had said.
The White House has defended its decision not to place tariffs on Russia, a decision which came as Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev visits Washington for a meeting with the Trump administration.
US sanctions on Moscow already \u201cpreclude any meaningful trade\u201d, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Axios on Wednesday.
Donald Trump had earlier threatened Moscow with tariffs on crude oil, adding that he was \u201cp***** off\u201d with Vladimir Putin over his recent comments about Ukraine.
Ms Leavitt said that Russia could still face \u201cadditional strong sanctions\u201d.
If you\u2019re just joining us now, here\u2019s everything you need to know from the past 24 hours:
The Independent\u2019s world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes:<\/em><\/strong>
Donald Trump is peeved. His officials are starting to spin that his plans for almost instant peace in Ukraine may take a lot longer, while Vladimir Putin\u2019s business envoy heads for the White House, supposedly to make amends.
Yet what it truly reveals is that the 47th president continues to be played by the Kremlin.
Trump has unleashed a trade war, expressed colonial designs on two Nato members, scrambled Ukraine\u2019s defensive war plans, shown public contempt for Europe and set about the pillars of American democracy with a sledgehammer.
Trump has shown a remarkable ability to interpret Moscow\u2019s deepest desires and to deliver on them.
Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin\u2019s most trusted international envoys, is in Washington for the first official visit of a Russian since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Details of the talks have been kept under wraps, but likely featured peace in Ukraine, the return of US companies to Russia, prisoner swaps, energy prices, and how to continue building ties between Washington and Moscow.
The US-educated, former Goldman Sachs investment banker, who was invited by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, has a strong relationship with many US officials including key members of the Trump team.
He may, therefore, be crucial in helping strengthen the relationship between the Kremlin and the White House – particularly after the US president recently said he was \u201cp***** off\u201d at his Russian counterpart for the failure to reach a quick ceasefire.
The Russian envoy played a significant role in the earliest contacts between Putin and Mr Trump after the latter first took office in 2016.
After Mr Dmitriev\u2019s arrival and while announcing bombshell global tariffs – which didn\u2019t include the previously-threatened levy on Russian crude oil – Mr Trump hailed the \u201cgood cooperation\u201d by Russia and Ukraine.
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