US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage

US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give
Ukraine, Trump leverage

    Sanctions are broadest yet on Russian energy
    US officials say will cost Russia billions of dollars a month
    Trump aides were briefed on the sanctions
    Biden officials expect Russia to circumvent sanctions but doing so
will add costs to its oil industry
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One of the Biden officials said it was "entirely" up to the
President-elect Trump, a Republican, who takes office on Jan. 20, when
and on what terms he might lift sanctions imposed during the Biden
era.

But to do so he would have to notify Congress and give it the ability
to take a vote of disapproval, he said. Many Republican members of
Congress had urged Biden to impose Friday's sanctions.

"Trump's people can't just come in and quietly lift everything that
Biden just did. Congress would have to be involved," said Jeremy
Paner, a partner at the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
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Advisers to Trump have floated proposals that would effectively cede
large parts of Ukraine to Russia for the foreseeable future.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-hits-russian-oil-toughest-sanctions-yet-bid-give-ukraine-trump-leverage-2025-01-10/

Advisers to Trump have floated proposals that
would effectively cede large parts of Ukraine to Russia

Trump's "team" neo-Munich Agreement - Today, the Munich Agreement is
widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has
become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist
totalitarian states." Wiki