The easing of sanctions on Russian oil by the White House could land the Kremlin $150 million a day to fund its war machine in Ukraine, U.S. Democratic senators have warned.
"President Trump's decision to provide sanctions relief to Russia is yet another example of how Putin has been one of the prime beneficiaries of President Trump's poorly conceived and executed war against Iran," Senators Elizabeth Warren, Jeanne Shaheen, and Chuck Schumer said in a March 13 statement shared with the Kyiv Independent.
While Russia has already set its military budget for this year, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the Kremlin would likely spend additional revenues on weapons, particularly drones used in Russia's deadly mass attacks on Ukrainian cities.
The Kyiv Independent calculated how many of these — and other weapons — Russia could buy with $150 million.
Read the full story here: https://kyivindependent.com/drones-missiles-soldiers-salaries-how-russia-can-spend-trumps-oil-sanctions-windfall/
Photo: Oleksii Filippov; Pierre Crom; Scott Peterson; Oleksii Samsonov; Iryna Rybakova / Getty Images; Ukraine's Air Force / Wikimedia Commons.
Source: KI_official
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It’s a disgrace. Pedophile removes sanctions after starting a war that should have never happened. All this after bullying/alienating all former allies and trying to demand they help clean up his mess.
Trump is a paedophile who thinks he owns everything, and resents them for not allying with his delusion, and now he is trying to ease sanctions on Russia, which is helping Iran killing Americans.
Fucking scum
This is Russia playing a card that it has, but it is a symptomatic relief, not a cure for there illness. They think that if they can make more weapons, ammo, and equipment that they can stem the bleeding. Not so. Every day a new refinery strike, and we are seeing Ukraine move up the target chain as more refineries and oil depots are “sanctioned.” Now we see avionics and electronics logistics being destroyed. As they continue to move up the target chain, Russia becomes less and less able to even use this shiny new oil money.
Prayers that Europe continues seizing shadow fleet tankers. If you want to stop Trump, donate to United24.