United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, in a bid to put pressure on the Kremlin to end its ongoing war with Ukraine. The Republican leader called these sanctions ‘tremendous and big,’ citing that the war will be settled. Washington’s move comes after months of stalled diplomacy and mounting resentment with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said, “Today is a very big day. Look, these are tremendous sanctions. These are very big. Those are against their two big oil companies… We hope that the war will be settled. We just answered questions related to the various forms of missiles and everything else we’re examining. However, we don’t think that

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