White House -Enter Steve Witkoff is preparing for a trip to Russia on Wednesday, two days before the deadline of President Donald Trump for Moscow to start a ceasefiring -or to be confronted with stiff sanctions.
But the escalated deadline, which Trump has lowered almost a month last week after he first spent Russian President Vladimir Putin a 50 -day deadline in mid -July, has done little to curb the violence of the Kremlin in Ukraine.
If a peace agreement is not reached on Friday, Putin’s most important raw material becomes the primary target, because the US starts with 100% sanctions against countries buying Russian oil in a movement to prevent them from feeding the Russian economy, and with expansion, his war box.
Steve Witkoff, US Special Envoy to the Midden -Oost, during a signed ceremony of the performance in the Oval Office of the White House on 3 February 2025. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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But even with the threat of possibly lower oil sales to countries such as India and China, which are the world’s best buyers of Russian oil, reports on Tuesday suggested that Witkoff’s last attempt to talk to Putin, it is not expected that they will make much or no progress.
A report from Reuters said that not only little is expected from Witkoff’s efforts, but Putin is also not deterred by Trump’s threat of secondary sanctions.
Trump told CNBC on Tuesday that he was planning to increase the current 25% rates on India “very substantial” within the next 24 hours.
“They feed the war machine, and if they do that, I will not be happy,” he said.
Given that Trump has already said that he is planning to touch a nation that acts with Moscow 100% secondary sanctionsIt is unclear whether he is still planning to touch both India and China with trade fines so high.
But India pushed back the rates and called them “unjustified and unreasonable.”
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Shake Hands during a press conference in the eastern room of the White House, February 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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In one rack On Monday, Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said after the invasion of Russia and the subsequent Western Boycots of Russian oil, the US reportedly encouraged India to import Russian gas “to strengthen the stability of worldwide energy.”
But it is not only financial help that India is accused of being involved when it comes to the Russian war in Ukraine.
Ukraine said on Tuesday that “components made in Indian had found in Russian attack drones-included the Shahed/Geran models.”
“Russia must be denied access to foreign parts that make these weapons and killing Ukrainians possible,” Andriy Yermak, Chief of Staff of the President, said on x.
These drones are not only used to not only touch military points along the front lines in Ukraine, but have routinely focused on Ukrainian citizens, also in a series of overnight stays.
“Last night the Russians launched a ballistic rocket and nearly 50 UAVs to Ukraine, most of them Russian-Iranian” Shaheds, “said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy Tuesday. “Many drones were shot by our defenders, but unfortunately there were hits.”
Zenskyy confirmed that one person was killed and 10 were injured, including two children, after 25 Shahed drones had beaten the city of Lozova in the Kharkiv region.
The regions of Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Sumy were also beaten and two others were apparently injured.
Vladimir Putin shakes the hands of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS top in Kazan, Russia, on October 22, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via Reuters)
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“Again, the Russian army hunts for civilians in an attempt to terrorize frontline cities and communities,” said Zenskyy.
Despite the concern that sanctions could have little effect on Putin’s war ambitions, Zenskyy argued that they could “contribute” to the end of the war.
“The world now sees that sanctions against Russia, and secondary sanctions against all those who help to benefit oil can work if they are strong enough,” he said. “That is why the pressure must be increased and this will undoubtedly contribute to peace.”
