The Trump administration is trying to get Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) to weaken his sanctions bill as the president tries to improve U.S. relations with Moscow.

US President Donald Trump has suggested he could impose harsh new sanctions on Russia if he runs out of patience with the Kremlin’s slow-motion approach to Ukraine peace efforts and resistance to calls for a cease-fire.

EDWARD FISHMAN is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. He served as Russia and Europe Sanctions Lead and as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State during the Obama administration.

A Ukrainian presidential delegation is holding meetings in the U.S. Congress to discuss measures that could compel Russia to stop the war. Sanctions must make Russia feel that continuing the war is unsustainable.

A bipartisan pair of US senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday and urged stronger sanctions against Russia, while uncertainty swirls over whether the next round of peace talks will move ahead in the coming days.

The United States and 10 allies say the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea flagrantly violates U.N. sanctions and has helped Moscow increase its missile strikes on Ukrainian cities

Sanctions by the United States against Russia have been prepared; Congress and the White House are ready to approve them. This was stated by the US Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg,

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