“Not necessarily on the side [президента Украины Владимира] Zelensky, but on the side of Ukraine – yes, ”the US president noted.
When asked whether he would provide more weapons to Ukraine, Trump replied that the weapon could be different. He did not exclude the possibility of the use of “sanctions weapons, banking or another” against Russia.
Context
After a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation, about $ 300 billion assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation was frozen into Ukraine of the Western countries. Some of them are stored in the EU countries (it is believed that approximately $ 190 billion is stored in the EuroClear depository in Belgium), and part in the USA.
On April 24, Trump said that the United States exerts great pressure on the Russian Federation to achieve peace in Ukraine. On the same day, the American president expressed confidence that Putin would stop impacts missile strikes on his request.
Before that, Trump in Truth Social criticized Putin for a massive Russian attack on Kyiv and called him to stop.
On April 25, The Wall Street Journal wrote that after pressure on Ukraine about a peace agreement between Kiev and Moscow, Trump finally saw an obstacle in Russia, but had not yet shown special readiness to make the Kremlin make concessions.
On April 26, Trump and President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky met in the Vatican, where they came to the funeral of the pope of the Roman Francis. Zelensky said that it was a “good meeting.”
On the same day, the Senator from the US Republican Party Lindsay Graham said that the US Senate is ready to tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Estonian President Alar Caris in Rome asked Trump not to get out of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. He promised to do this and said that the parties are quite close to the decision.
