Russia accuses Trump of committing an “act of war” over sanctions on oil companies and canceling the summit with Putin

Moscow, which has not yet announced countermeasures to Trump’s decision to sanction Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, which account for half of the country’s production, has stated that the objectives in Ukraine remain the same. And what is important is resolve “the roots of the conflict”that mantra that Putin repeats over and over again in his historical justifications.

The former president’s response has been more belligerent Dmitri Medvédevwho is dedicated to criticizing the “enemies” of Russia on his social networks. In a message published on his Telegram account, he accused Washington of embarking on a war race to cancel the Budapest summit and the sanctions on Russian oil companies.

“The United States is our enemy, and its charlatan ‘peacemaker’ has declared itself on a war footing against Russia,” said Medvedev, also number two on the Security Council. “The decisions taken are an act of war against Russia. And now Trump has completely aligned himself with deranged Europe,” he added in his message, published shortly after the EU announced the 19th package of sanctions against Moscow.

The US Treasury Department announced that the sanctions on Russian oil companies were the response to Russia’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process” to end the “senseless” war in Ukraine: “They increase pressure on the Russian energy sector and degrade the Kremlin’s ability to raise revenue for its war machine and support its weakened economy.” Crude oil has rebounded strongly after this decision.

Trump himself, in a press conference in the Oval Office, confirmed on the other hand that he had had to indefinitely suspend the meeting with his counterpart Putin in Budapest, despite the fact that he has “a very good relationship” with him. “It didn’t seem like we were going to get where we needed to get. So I canceled it, but we will do it in the future… I have good talks and then they go nowhere,” he lamented.

China, one of Russia’s main allies, has regretted the “unilateral” sanctions because “they have no basis in international law and are not authorized by the UN Security Council.”

The one who has welcomed the measures against the Kremlin’s war machine is Volodymyr Zelensky, although he also demanded increased pressure on Putin to agree to a ceasefire. “This package of sanctions is crucial for us. Thank you very much. We expected it. I hope it works. It is very important,” Zelensky said in statements to the press upon his arrival at the summit that European leaders are holding this Thursday in Brussels.

“Russia does not show that it wants to stop this war. We see attacks against daycare centers, schools, civilians, which means that we not only have to defend ourselves, together with Europe, together with the United States, we have to pressure Putin to stop the war,” he said.