{"id":140676,"date":"2025-10-23T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140676\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:08:08","slug":"us-oil-sanctions-against-russia-are-an-act-of-war-says-putin-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/140676\/","title":{"rendered":"US oil sanctions against Russia are an ‘act of war’, says Putin ally"},"content":{"rendered":"

A leading Kremlin figure<\/strong> has called the US sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies an ‘act of war’.<\/p>\n

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev<\/strong> said on Thursday that decisions by the Trump administration to sanction oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil and cancel a summit in Budapest mean that “Trump has fully aligned himself with loony Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Telegram post seen by the Irish Times<\/a>, Mr Medvedev said: “The US is our enemy, and their talkative \u2018peacemaker\u2019 has now fully embarked on the warpath with Russia.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been ramping up the pressure on Russia to end the war, after Mr Trump cancelled a meeting in Budapest with Russian leader Putin, saying he did not want it to be a \u201cwaste of time<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Announcing the measures, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said: \u201cNow is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that given Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201crefusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia\u2019s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin\u2019s war machine\u201d.<\/p>\n

More people have been targeted in Ukraine in a fresh wave of strikes by Russia, with 25 people injured in Kyiv and six killed on Tuesday, as well as a prolonged blackout in Ukraine caused by the strikes.<\/p>\n

The sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as dozens of subsidiaries, come after months of bipartisan pressure on President Donald Trump to hit Russia with harder sanctions.<\/p>\n

The sanctions were the first against Russia since Mr Trump returned to the White House in January.<\/p>\n

The European Union also agreed on a new raft of sanctions<\/a>, targeting Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas.<\/p>\n

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World<\/p>\n

US announces sanctions against Russian oil companies<\/p>\n

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Energy revenue is the linchpin of Russia\u2019s economy, allowing Mr Putin to pour money into the armed forces without worsening inflation for everyday people and avoiding a currency collapse.<\/p>\n

The new EU measures took almost a month to decide, and were agreed during a Thursday morning meeting of EU ambassadors.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Newstalk, EU council president Antonio Costa said: “We said repeatedly that we will support Ukraine as long as necessary and whatever it takes. Now we have concretised this.”<\/p>\n

Next February will mark the fourth year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leading Kremlin figure has called the US sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies an ‘act of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-140676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115423877848252444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}