{"id":245830,"date":"2025-10-23T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:26:10","slug":"live-updates-us-sanctions-on-russia-over-ukraine-add-pressure-on-putin-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245830\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: US sanctions on Russia over Ukraine add pressure on Putin to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Trump administration has sanctioned Russia\u2019s two largest oil companies<\/a> \u2013 the first time it has imposed direct costs on Moscow over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n <\/p>\n

\n The move wraps a week in which US President Donald Trump suggested he would provide Ukraine with new weapons, then backtracked, then said he would hold another summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, before backtracking again.\n <\/p>\n

\n Here\u2019s how we got here:\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 October 16: Trump had been loudly musing about whether to provide Ukraine with Tomahawks<\/a> \u2013 powerful, long-range missiles that could pummel targets deep in Russia. A day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was due to visit the White House \u2013 hoping to secure the new weapons \u2013 Putin initiated a phone call<\/a> with Trump. The US president then announced plans to meet Putin for a summit in Budapest<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 October 17: Zelensky made his third visit<\/a> to the White House this year. It was neither as bad as his first, nor as rosy as his second. Trump made clear to Zelensky that he would not receive Tomahawk missiles. Sources told CNN the meeting was tense and \u201cuncomfortable,\u201d<\/a> with Trump insisting that Ukraine make territorial concessions<\/a> to Russia to end the war. Zelensky said no. After the meeting, Trump called on Russia and Ukraine to end the war along the current battle lines<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 October 18: European leaders, unnerved by what appeared to be Trump once more shifting towards Putin\u2019s position on the war, vowed their \u201cunwavering commitment\u201d to Ukraine. Preparations for the Trump-Putin summit in Budapest continued.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Monday: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in preparation for the Budapest summit. Lavrov said<\/a> he told Rubio that Russia\u2019s position \u201chas not altered\u201d since the Alaska summit: rather than a ceasefire, Russia wants a peace deal that would address the \u201croot causes\u201d of the war<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Tuesday: CNN reported<\/a> that Trump\u2019s hopes for a quick meeting with Putin had stalled out. One source said Rubio and Lavrov had divergent expectations about how to end Russia\u2019s war during their phone call. Later, the White House said there were \u201cno plans\u201d for Trump and Putin to meet \u201cin the immediate future.\u201d Asked why, Trump said he didn\u2019t want the meeting to be \u201ca waste of time.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Wednesday: Despite the White House shelving the Budapest summit, Moscow said preparations were ongoing. But the Kremlin\u2019s hopes were dashed when the Trump administration announced it was sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil<\/a>, Russia\u2019s two biggest oil companies. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the sanctions aimed to \u201cdegrade\u201d Putin\u2019s war chest, and that the decision was taken because of \u201cPutin\u2019s refusal to end this senseless war.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2022 Today: Trump\u2019s decision is a major coup for Ukraine and its European allies, who have spent months pleading with Washington to turn the screw on Russia\u2019s economy. Zelensky hailed Trump\u2019s decision, which came on the same day that the European Union adopted its 19th sanctions package against Russia. The Kremlin has so far, however, tried to shrug off<\/a> the impact of the new measures.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has sanctioned Russia\u2019s two largest oil companies \u2013 the first time it has imposed direct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,100016,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-245830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-intl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}