{"id":367237,"date":"2025-08-23T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:43:10","slug":"trump-renews-sanctions-threat-against-russia-over-slow-progress-toward-peace-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367237\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump renews sanctions threat against Russia over slow progress toward peace \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier Friday accused Moscow of dragging out peace talks<\/a> in a bid to hold off American sanctions, which Trump has threatened to impose on Russia and its trading partners if the Kremlin does not show more efforts toward ceasefire negotiations.<\/p>\n

A Russian airstrike on Thursday hit a U.S. electronics factory operating in western Ukraine, injuring at least 15 people, according to Ukrainian officials<\/a>. Asked about the strike, Trump told reporters \u201cI\u2019m not happy about it, and I\u2019m not happy about anything having to do with that war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the next two weeks, we\u2019re going to find out<\/a> which way it\u2019s going to go. And I better be very happy<\/a>,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. president has made considerable diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine in the last two weeks, but has so far failed to get Moscow to make any concessions<\/a>. Russia still wants Ukraine to give up vast swathes of territory in its eastern Donbas region, a request that Kyiv categorically rejects.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Trump met with Putin in Alaska in a bid to convince the Russian ruler to end his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. president then convened European leaders in the White House last Monday, including Zelenskyy, to discuss the prospects for a peace deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after, Trump announced that a bilateral meeting<\/a> between Putin and Zelenskyy was in the works<\/a>. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that no Putin-Zelenskyy summit is planned, saying the agenda for such a meeting \u201cis not ready at all.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who attended the talks in the Oval Office<\/a>, said Washington\u2019s patience with Moscow seemed to be \u201cwearing thin,\u201d in an interview<\/a> with Finnish TV outlet YLE TV1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier Friday accused Moscow of dragging out peace talks in a bid to hold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[766,32,332,2663,479,657,49,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-367237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-sanctions","12":"tag-tariffs","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","17":"tag-war","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078142627950319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}