CNN News: President Donald Trump signaled on Sunday that his administration is ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia.
“Are you ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia?” a reporter asked the president as he left the White House to head to the US Open in New York. “Yeah, I am,” the president responded.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday stressed the importance of ratcheting up pressure on Moscow and on “all countries who trade with Russia.”
“The Russian economy is pressured and all the countries who trade with Russia are pressured, and we will continue with this,” Zelensky said, adding that “secondary sanctions and special trade tariffs” can help.
CNN has previously reported that Trump was growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress on peace and was contemplating how involved he should be in brokering a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
Russian attack: Meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine said Sunday that Russia is “escalating” following its largest air attack of the war overnight.
Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time.
An infant was among at least two people killed in drone strikes on several residential buildings in the capital, Kyiv’s city office said.
