{"id":441055,"date":"2025-09-21T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:01:15","slug":"trump-instructs-us-ambassador-to-pressure-europe-over-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441055\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump instructs US ambassador to pressure Europe over Russian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has once again criticised European countries for continuing to buy Russian oil and has urged them to completely stop importing energy resources from Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-21\/trump-renews-pressure-on-europe-to-stop-buying-russian-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>, citing Trump during a speech in Virginia, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> During a dinner in Mount Vernon, Virginia, Trump raised the issue of European states purchasing Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Europeans are buying oil from Russia \u2013 not supposed to happen, right?&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the US president addressed US Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker, asking him to increase pressure on Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> &#8220;They have to stop buying oil from Russia, Matt. Matt won\u2019t let it happen much longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump. Photo: Getty Images US President Donald Trump has once again criticised European countries for continuing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2661,332,1757,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-441055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-oil","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-trump","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115242656258858068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441055","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=441055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}