US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine war
US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine war
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After taking six months to conclude that Vladimir Putin may not be a kindred transactional authoritarian leader but an ideological nationalist seeking the return of what “belongs to Russia”, the deadline Donald Trump set for the Russian president to agree a Ukraine ceasefire or face US sanctions on oil exports arrives on Friday.
What Trump – who some had claimed was a Russian asset – does next to punish Putin could define his presidency.
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