Rubio says we will impose new sanctions on Russia if there is no progress in the peace agreement

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Foreign Minister Marco Rubio insisted that the United States would impose new sanctions on Russia if there was no progress in a peace agreement with Ukraine, and denied that Washington was eliminating its military support for Kiev.

Rubio was speaking on the Senate a day after President Donald Trump held a two -hour phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin Failure In resolving war in Ukraine.

Democratic politicians accused Trump of hiding Ukraine by failing to put pressure on Putin to finish warFor example, by threatening more sanctions if it does not agree to a ceasefire, as is required by the European European allies.

The testimony is before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Rubio He was asked if he would support a bill to be paid by Republican Senator Lindsay Graham that would impose new sanctions on Russia.

The draft law, which was designed to make it difficult for Russia to finance its war, is to impose a 500 percent tariff on imports from countries that buy oil and gas, among other provisions.

Rubio said: “If it is actually clear that the Russians are not interested in a peace deal and want to continue to fight the war, it may reach this point.”

But he added that Trump believes, “Now if we start threatening the sanctions, the Russians will stop speaking. There is a value that we can speak to them and lead them to reach the table.”

Members of the Democratic Committee accused Trump of failing to use the invitation with Putin to exercise any pressure on Moscow. Senator Jin Shaheen said that the Russian leader did not agree to any “meaningful negotiations that would end this war in Ukraine.”

As President Trump admitted, Vladimir Putin is taking him to ride, “she said to Rubio.

Senator Chris van Holin added: “I have cooperated with President Trump to throw the Ukrainian people under the bus, and I played like Vladimir Putin,” added Senator Chris van Holin.

Rubio denied that Trump was soft on Putin and insisted that Washington had “the same financial lever (on Russia) that we had under previous management.”

“When Vladimir Putin woke up this morning, he had the same set of sanctions that he had always been suffering from since the beginning of this conflict,” adding that US weapons were still flowing to Ukraine.

“Putin. … he had no single privilege, and he did not raise a single penalty.”

But he insisted that the war would only end with the settlement of negotiations, and it was important that the United States did everything in its power to bring both sides to the negotiating table. “What the president is trying to do is end the war.”

His comments will only do a little reassurance who expressed their dissatisfaction with the result of Trump’s invitation, including the absence of any commitment from Russia to an immediate ceasefire.

Instead, Putin called for both sides to formulate a “memo” on the terms of the future peace treaty, which critics said was just a delay tactic that would allow Russia to continue fighting with the continued conversations.

European and Ukrainian leaders were also concerned about Trump’s proposal after the discussion that the United States wanted to get out of its role as a mediator, indicating that the Vatican could take control of it instead.