{"id":163578,"date":"2025-09-08T04:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-says-ready-for-more-russia-sanctions-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T04:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:33:01","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-trump-says-ready-for-more-russia-sanctions-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-says-ready-for-more-russia-sanctions-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Trump says ready for more Russia sanctions – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

US treasury secretary foreshadows oil tariffs in cooperation with Europe; Alaska meeting gave Putin the publicity he wanted, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,293
Asked by a reporter at the White House on Sunday if he was ready to move to \u201cthe second phase\u201d of sanctions targeting Russia, Donald Trump responded: \u201cYeah, I am.\u201d<\/strong> The US president stopped short of saying he was committed to such a decision or what a second phase might entail. The White House did not immediately respond to an email on Sunday asking what steps Trump was contemplating. Trump said on Sunday night that \u201ccertain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday individually\u201d <\/strong>and he would <\/strong>also speak to Vladimir Putin soon.
The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said on Sunday that the US and the EU could put \u201csecondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil\u201d<\/strong>, pushing the Russian economy to the brink of collapse and bringing Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. China is a major buyer of Russian energy exports. Trump has placed a 50% tariff on Indian goods \u2013 ostensibly because it imports Russian oil, although the US president harbours other grievances involving India<\/a>, reportedly including its prime minister\u2019s refusal to nominate him for a Nobel peace prize<\/a>.
Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin what he wanted by hosting the Russian president in Alaska, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the US network ABC.<\/strong> \u201cAnd it\u2019s a pity \u2026 Putin doesn\u2019t want to meet with me, but he wants very much to meet with the president of the United States, to show everybody video and images that he is there<\/a>.\u201d The ABC presenter Martha Raddatz put to Zelenskyy \u201c[Putin] said he will meet if you come to Moscow,\u201d to which the Ukrainian president responded scornfully: \u201cHe can come to Kyiv,\u201d adding: \u201cI can\u2019t go to Moscow when my country is under missiles, under attacks each day \u2026 he understands it.\u201d<\/strong> Putin\u2019s stance was a ploy to postpone their meeting, Zelenskyy said, adding that he was \u201cready for any kind of meeting \u2013 but not in Russia \u2013 any kind of meeting, bilateral [only with Putin], trilateral [adding Trump]\u201d.
Separately the Ukrainian president said he was counting on a strong US response to the largest ever Russian barrage on Ukraine. A mother and her baby were among the dead<\/strong>, and for the first time a key government building in Kyiv was hit, writes Kate Connolly<\/a>. \u201cIt is important that there is a broad response from partners to this attack today,\u201d said Zelenskyy on Sunday. \u201cWe are counting on a strong response from America. That is what is needed.\u201d Trump\u2019s Ukraine war envoy, Keith Kellogg,<\/strong> said on Sunday that the Russian attack \u201cwas not a signal that Russia wants to diplomatically end this war\u201d.
In other areas of Ukraine, a teenage girl was injured when Russian mortars hit homes in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region<\/strong>, officials said; and a woman was hurt in a drone strike on Sumy city<\/strong>, said the head of the regional administration.
Ukraine\u2019s military said it attacked the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia\u2019s Bryansk region, inflicting \u201ccomprehensive fire damage\u201d<\/strong> during an overnight attack on Sunday. It is part of a strategy to target Russia\u2019s energy industry, which is the backbone of its economy and helps fund the war. Recipients of oil from the pipeline include Hungary and Slovakia whose prime ministers are friendly to Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine\u2019s defence ministry said a new meeting of Kyiv\u2019s allies was being planned and air defences and supplies for Kyiv\u2019s deep strikes on Russia<\/strong> would be discussed.<\/p>\n

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US treasury secretary foreshadows oil tariffs in cooperation with Europe; Alaska meeting gave Putin the publicity he wanted, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,293Asked by a reporter at the White House on Sunday if he was ready to move to \u201cthe second phase\u201d of sanctions targeting Russia, Donald Trump responded: \u201cYeah, I am.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}