{"id":901507,"date":"2026-09-19T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901507\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:32:12","slug":"trump-signs-sweeping-russia-sanctions-over-ukraine-war-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901507\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs sweeping Russia sanctions over Ukraine war | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

New law allows tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of Russian oil, including China and India.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping sanctions package targeting Russia over its war in Ukraine, days after Congress sent the bill to the White House with rare bipartisan support<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Signed on Friday, the legislation, known as the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, honours the late Republican senator who spent more than a year negotiating it before his sudden death in July. It was co-written with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal.<\/p>\n

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The bill sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin, senior officials and oligarchs, along with Russian banks and financial institutions. It also targets Moscow\u2019s energy and defence sectors and the so-called shadow fleet of tankers used to move Russian oil around Western sanctions.<\/p>\n

A key provision gives Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas, a measure expected to fall hardest on China and India, the top two importers of Russian crude. The bill separately extends sanctions on Iran\u2019s energy and weapons sectors.<\/p>\n

The bill passed the Senate last month and the House on Wednesday, with 58 Democrats crossing party lines to back it.<\/p>\n

It marks the first major Ukraine-related bill to clear Congress in more than two years.<\/p>\n

Supporters say the aim is to starve the Kremlin of the funds sustaining its war effort and push Putin towards negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had lobbied lawmakers ahead of the vote, called the legislation \u201can extremely powerful tool\u201d.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the bill placed \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on what he called \u201cthe Russian war machine\u201d, while Blumenthal said he hoped it would help bring Moscow to the table, telling Putin: \u201cWe have your number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all Democrats were on board. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposed the bill, warning that its tariff powers would raise costs for American families and calling its sanctions provisions full of \u201cloopholes\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn oil tanker operating as part of Russia\u2019s shadow fleet is intercepted by British forces in the English Channel, in Portland, England, on June 15, 2026 [Finnbarr Webster\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n

India, one of the countries most exposed to the new tariff threat, said this week that it \u201cremains firmly committed to ensuring energy security<\/a> for its 1.4 billion people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision comes about a week before he is due to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New law allows tariffs of up to 100 percent on major buyers of Russian oil, including China and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5806,6109,95,1376,3456,43,1799,5897,1259,44,212436,32557,6639,22373,41,39,42,40,10612,772,19309],"class_list":["post-901507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-india","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-news-analysis","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}