The statute is scheduled to be featured on the US Federal Register on Friday, extending the emergency 10 years before the situation in Ukraine.
Sanctions were first declared under then President Barack Obama in response to Crimea’s Black Sea Peninsula, which joined Russia on March 6, 2014. The statute also extends the related sanctions imposed by Obama, Presstv reported.
Trump is about to host Ukrainian leaders on Friday. He recently called him a “dictator” and then said he had “a lot of respect.”
The conference comes after the Trump administration shocked Western partners after the Trump administration shocked Western partners as the Russian-Ukrainian war broke out more than three years ago.
Trump appears to blame Zelensky on the war and has cheated him for not starting peace talks before.
He says Friday’s meeting with the Ukrainian president has a potential “one trillion dollar deal” that could provide a “trillion dollar deal” that will easily access rare earth mineral jackpots.
“We dig, dig, dig,” Trump told reporters the night before Zelensky’s visit. “American taxpayers have now effectively reimbursed their money and hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into helping Ukraine protect itself.”
On February 12, Trump said negotiations to end the Ukrainian war would begin “quickly” after making a “long and productive” call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Last week, diplomats from both countries held the first round of US Russia over Ukraine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
On Thursday, Russian and US officials met in Istanbul to discuss the normalization of the operation of their respective diplomatic missions, which have been hit hard in recent years by the mutual expulsion of numerous diplomats, office closures and other restrictions.
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