Ukraine War: Rubio: Russia made it clear that sanctions could threaten

Before the planned phone call between US President Donald Trump and his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin, the US government, according to its own presentation, indicates the possibility of new sanctions. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio told CBS News in recent weeks to the Russian side in recent weeks. The copy of the conversation was published before the broadcast on Sunday.

Moscow has made it clear that a wide range of measures in parliament are emerging for additional measures if there is no progress in the Ukraine talks, Rubio explained when asked. The government had asked the congress for a little delay to leave room for negotiations, but ultimately could not stop the process. When asked whether Moscow only wanted to win time, Rubio said: “That’s exactly what we’re testing.”

In the United States, sanctions are usually imposed together with the executive. With a sufficiently large majority, the congress can also prescribe it to the government.

The offer of the Vatican to act as a place of possible further discussions between Russia and Ukraine – not only for a possible meeting of Putin with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, but also for other negotiations – the minister called “very generously”. All sides could feel comfortable there. “Hopefully we can get so far that discussions take place regularly and the Vatican has the opportunity to be one of the options,” said Rubio.

He emphasized that a direct meeting between Trump and Putin may be the only way to get the conversations going again. Trump is very interested in such a meeting. However, the implementation is associated with some organizational effort, said Rubio restricted. At the moment there could be no question of the fact that the place and time are already being planned. The Kremlin had recently steamed expectations of an early meeting.