United States President Donald Trump said that he is prepared to impose economic sanctions on Russia if President Vladimir Putin fails to agree to a ceasefire
deal in the war in Ukraine, reported Reuters. Trump's new threats for Russia comes days after he met Russian President Putin in Alaska. "It's very, very serious what I have in mind, if I have to do it, but I want to see it end," Trump told a reporter who asked if Putin would face consequences. "We have economic sanctions. I'm talking about economic because we're not going to get into a world war." "It will not be a world war, but it will be an economic war," Trump said at a White House Cabinet meeting. "An economic war is going to be bad, and it's going to be bad for Russia, and I don't want that." He added: "Zelenskyy is not exactly innocent, either." Trump has been threatening sanctions against Russia, claiming that It would bring the long-drawn Russia-Ukraine war to an end. However, he had stopped making such threats after his meeting with Putin in Alaska.
Putin met Trump at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where the summit began with smiles and a warm handshake but ended without any breakthrough on Ukraine earlier this month.
While Putin spoke of an “understanding” and cautioned Europe not to “torpedo progress,” Trump said, “There is no deal until there’s a deal.”
Later, reports said that Putin had agreed for a NATO-like security guarantees for Ukraine, under Article 5, and Trump will be arranging a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin.
