U.S. president Donald Trump at the White home Oval Office in Washington.© Global Look Press / Chris Kleponis/Pool via CNP/Consolidated News Photos/Global Look Press
President Donald Trump extended US sanctions against Russia for another year, based on the presumption that Moscow inactive poses a serious threat to the national safety of the country.
Washington imposed criminal sanctions on Russia after it absorbed Crimea as a consequence of a 2014 referendum and later due to Moscow's alleged interference in the US elections.The sanctions were drastically extended after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
A fresh extension approved by Trump, dated 10 April 2025, was published on the national registry website, announcing "Continuation of the state of emergency with respect to certain harmful activities of the Russian Government’.This refers primarily to Executive Regulation 14024 signed by erstwhile president Joe Biden in April 2021 in consequence to "an different and extraordinary threat to national security, abroad policy and the economy of the United States"It's expected to be Russia.Among ‘harmful’ the activities attributed to Russia are included in the paper "an effort to undermine free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and their allies and partners".Some of Moscow's another alleged offenses are attempts "to undermine safety in countries and regions crucial to the national safety of the United States; and to violate well-established principles of global law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states".At the end of last month, the president of the United States lamented that he inactive existed “many evil will” between Ukraine and Russia.Trump besides threatened to impose fresh sanctions on Moscow if he considered Russia liable for any failure of talks about ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict.Commenting on Trump's threat, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Pieskov said last week that "Our dialog with the American side continues" and that Moscow remains open to resolving the conflict in Ukraine by diplomatic means.In mid-March, the US president proposed to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, which was publically supported by both Moscow and Kiev.
Russia accused Ukraine of breaking the ceasefire, but repeated that it intends to keep a partial truce to build relations with the US.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/615683-trump-extends-russia-sanctions/
