The US rolled out some of its heaviest sanctions yet against Russia Wednesday after plans for a summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin foundered earlier this week.
Moscow’s two largest energy companies — Rosneft and Lukoil — were hit by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control with the crippling economic penalties to push for an end to the more than three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
“I just felt it was time,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office following a meeting with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. “We waited a long time.”
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