Trump is ready to double sanctions against Russia to end the war in Ukraine, said Keith Kellogg, the US president’s special envoy for Russia and Ukraine.
According to him, Kyiv and Moscow will have to make concessions to end the mass killings in Europe’s largest country.
According to Kellogg, the imposition of sanctions on Russia is assessed as “a conditional 3 points on a scale of 1-10,” depending on how painful the economic pressure can be.
The US sanctions, including those aimed at Russia’s profitable energy sector, are nominally twice as high, but there is still room to tighten them.
“And if anyone understands how to use the levers of pressure, it is President Donald Trump, and you can see that by the example of what he has done recently,” Kellogg added.
