{"id":28917,"date":"2025-02-28T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/trump-extends-russia-sanctions-ahead-of-meeting-with-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:44:50","slug":"trump-extends-russia-sanctions-ahead-of-meeting-with-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/trump-extends-russia-sanctions-ahead-of-meeting-with-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump extends Russia sanctions ahead of meeting with Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5401800.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The decree, which is set to be published in the US Federal Register on Friday, extends the 10-year-old state of emergency over the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were first declared on March 6, 2014, under then-President Barack Obama in response to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea joining Russia.\u00a0The decree also extends related sanctions imposed by Obama, PressTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is about to host Friday the Ukrainian leader for which he said has a &#8220;lot of respect&#8221; after\u00a0recently calling him a &#8220;dictator&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meeting\u00a0comes after the Trump administration shocked its Western partners by holding the first high-level US talks with Moscow since the war between Russia and\u00a0Ukraine broke out just over three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0had appeared to blame Zelensky for the war and chided him for not starting peace talks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He has said his Friday meeting with the Ukrainian president has in store a potential \u201ctrillion-dollar deal\u201d offering the US easy access to a bonanza of\u00a0rare earth minerals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be dig, dig, digging,\u201d Trump told reporters on the eve of Zelensky\u2019s visit. \u201cThe American taxpayers will now effectively be reimbursed for the money and hundreds of billions of dollars poured into helping Ukraine defend itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On February 12, Trump said negotiations to end the Ukraine war will start \u201cimmediately\u201d after holding a \u201clengthy and highly productive\u201d telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, diplomats from the two countries held the first round of US-Russia talks over Ukraine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Russian and US officials met in Istanbul to discuss normalizing the operations of their respective diplomatic missions which in recent years were hit hard by mutual expulsions of large numbers of diplomats, closures of offices, and other restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/229037\/Trump-extends-Russia-sanctions-ahead-of-meeting-with-Zelensky\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decree, which is set to be published in the US Federal Register on Friday, extends the 10-year-old state of emergency over the situation in Ukraine. The sanctions were first declared on March 6, 2014, under then-President Barack Obama in response to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea joining Russia.\u00a0The decree also extends related sanctions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}