Trump calls on NATO countries to stop buying Russian oil to end the Ukraine war

President Trump said he believed more than A three -year war in Ukraine It will end if all NATO countries stop buying oil from Russia and put a tariff on China to purchase Russian oil.

Mr. Trump posted on Social truth On Saturday, it is claimed that a letter sent to NATO said he was “ready to hold major sanctions on Russia” provided that all NATO countries stop buying Russian oil. The president said that the Military Alliance’s commitment to winning the war in Ukraine “was much lower than 100 %” and that the purchase of Russian oil by some members was “horrific”.

“It greatly weakens your position in negotiation, and the authority of bargaining, on Russia,” said Mr. Trump.

Since 2023, Türkiye has been a member of NATO, the third largest buyer of Russian oil, after China and India, according to the Research Center on Energy and Clean Air. Among the other members of the coalition are 32 countries participating in the purchase of Russian oil, Hungary and Slovakia.

Mr. Trump’s message comes in a tense moment in the conflict for NATO after the last incursion Several aircraft of Russian aircraft in the airspace of the Poland coalition member. It is seen as a step ascending by Russia and Poland that has dropped many drones.

Earlier this week, Mr. Trump seemed to be the importance of the accident, saying that the incursion may not have been intentional

“It could have been a mistake,” he told reporters late Thursday. A day ago, Mr. Trump issued a brief reaction to his social platform: “What is Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!”

The White House did not provide any clarification of the statements of Mr. Trump and Poland Most senior officials refused to propose It was a mistake on Friday.

During the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump promised to end the war quickly. Some lawmakers in Congress are trying to persuade Mr. Trump to support a draft law stressing sanctions, after President Putin hosted in Alaska to hold talks that failed to achieve progress towards peace.

The president said in his position that NATO’s ban on Russian oil in addition to the customs tariff for China “will also be a great help in ending this deadly, but ridiculous war.”

Mr. Trump said that NATO members should impose a 50 % tariff to 100 % on China and withdraw them if the war launched with Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine ends.

“China has strong control, and even a grip, on Russia,” deployment, and a strong tariff “will break that grip.”

The US President has already set an additional import tax of 25 % on the goods from India, which he said punished for buying Russian energy products.

In his post, Mr. Trump said that the responsibility for the war fell on his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinsky. As in the previous data on this issue, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion, was not included in that list.

Mr. Trump’s job depends on a call on Friday with the Finance Ministers of the Seven Group, a forum for industrial democracy. During the invitation, the American commercial actor, Jameson Jarir and Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, called for their counterparts to a “unified front” to cut “Putin’s war machines in Putin’s revenues,” according to Jarir’s office.