“Kellogg said that the Trump administration is considering using frozen Russian assets to buy American weapons”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, Trump’s economic strategy involves manipulating the world oil market in order to weaken Russia’s economy.
“He (Donald Trump – editor.) focused on economics. When he was talking, for example, in Davos about the price of oil, if you bring the price of oil down to, say, $45 a barrel, then that would be a sort of break-even point. If you get to that point, you’re really going to hurt the Russian economy,” Kellogg said.
In addition, the special representative said that the Trump administration is considering the possibility of using frozen Russian assets to buy American weapons.
On January 23, during an online speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Donald Trump said that he is going to ask Saudi Arabia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to lower the price of oil. In his opinion, this could stop Russia’s war against Ukraine.
On January 22, the US president again called for the earliest possible conclusion of a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, threatening to introduce new sanctions against the Russian Federation in the event of Moscow’s rejection of the agreement.
Earlier, CNN, citing sources, reported that Trump instructed aides to arrange a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. According to them, the newly elected US president wants to talk to the president of the Russian Federation in the first days after the inauguration to discuss a personal meeting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on January 24 that he is ready for peace talks and a meeting with US President Donald Trump. The Russian leader believes that if peace talks begin within the current legal framework, they will be illegitimate due to Ukrainian legislation, which prohibits Zelensky from conducting direct negotiations with Putin. And hinted that it would be better for them to meet together.
In response to this interview, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak, emphasized that Putin is trying to promote the idea of negotiations between Russia and the United States without the participation of Ukraine and that “this will not happen.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi previously said that Trump could play a decisive role in ending the war with Russia and help stop Putin.
Analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) proved that the Kremlin does not want to make compromises in the war against Ukraine, but wants its complete surrender.