Without waiting for Trump, the EU and Great Britain Russia are putting new sanctions on Ukraine

London – Without waiting for Washington, the European Union and Great Britain announced a new area of ​​sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged a friendly, albeit fruitless call about the end of the war in Ukraine.

The measures will be received against Moscow's so-called “shadow fleet” round 200 ships with which Russian oil exports are transported worldwide. They are the 17th series of European sanctions that have been imposed on Russia since it entered its neighbors in 2022, the EU said.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a post on X that it was “time to intensify the pressure on Russia”.

The coordinated efforts were reacted to in the direct reaction to Russian drone attacks on Ukraine at the weekend, said British Foreign Minister David Lammy in a statement made by his government on Tuesday. “The delay of peace efforts will only double our determination to help Ukraine to defend themselves and use our sanctions to limit Putin's war machine,” he added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an overnight speech that it was “important that America is still involved in the peace process.”

“Russia fears American commitment,” he said, adding that many could be saved if the United States “put pressure on the war”.

The spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that the Kremlin would never bow to “Ultimaten”.

The sanctions were announced without accompanying measures from the United States, although the European leaders intensively have lobbying for the White House for the White House when Putin rejected a ceasefire.

Trump decided that after a two-hour call with Putin on Monday, in which he dropped his earlier persistence on a 30-day ceasefire, he did not force his own sanctions, and suggested that he ended the war to end the war that he once promised to end “day one”.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday a hearing of the congress that the White House would continue to drive an existing invoice that could increase a 500% tariff on buyers of Russian oil and gas exports if no peace agreements could be made progress.

But he added that Trump “believes that at the moment they threaten sanctions, the Russians will stop talking, and it is worth talking to speak and driving them to get to the table.”

At the beginning of this week, Trump went into conflict, which indicates that the Pope Leo born in America, which indicates that the Vatican could play a greater role in the orientation of the negotiations.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the future role is uncertainty about Washington's future role that the EU's Ukraine will present a white book in which more aggressive measures against Moscow are requested, including the confiscation of Russian assets and the introduction of sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil.

In the meantime, the Ukrainian officials said that dozens of people were injured in the early Wednesday by Russian drone attacks on the cities of Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv.

Moscow also published Putin's film material, which visited the western Russian The Kursk region on Tuesday has regained control of the Ukrainian armed forces for the first time since its strength.