(Reuters) -The EU’s top sanctions official was in Washington with a team of experts on Monday to discuss what would be the first coordinated transatlantic measures against Russia since President Donald Trump returned to office.

With Moscow continuing to pound Ukrainian cities more than three weeks after Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska, European leaders hope the U.S. president is finally ready to follow through on repeated threats to act.

On Sunday, after the war’s biggest air attack so far set fire to government buildings in Kyiv, Trump said he was ready to move to a second phase of restrictions, the closest he has come yet to announcing new sanctions.

Trump, who took office in January promising a swift end to the war, has repeatedly set deadlines for Mo

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