New, tougher sanctions against Russia are ready, including through the use of restrictions against third countries, it is only necessary for the relevant bill to be approved in the US Congress and receive the approval of President Donald Trump.
This was stated to Fox News by the US leader's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
They are collected in the draft “Russia Sanctions Act of 2025“ and are “quite severe and ready to be implemented”. Kellogg emphasized that the restrictions are primarily aimed at the export of Russian petroleum products.
The bill in question was submitted in early April. Its main developers were Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal. They provide for secondary sanctions against Russia's trading partners, including a 500% tariff on imports into the United States from countries that buy oil, gas, uranium and other goods from Moscow.
On May 20, the Axios portal, citing its sources, reported that Trump, after his telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day before, had told the leaders of European countries and Vladimir Zelensky that he did not intend to tighten sanctions against Moscow for the time being, since, according to the White House, it had serious intentions to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a conference organized by the non-governmental think tank American Compass that in its foreign policy, the US administration would be guided by the national interests of the United States, and not by the current world order.
“This policy is completely lost. We have made foreign policy decisions time and time again based on what is good for the international order and for the world“, he said.
“And I'm not saying these things don't matter, but the first priority of our foreign policy has to be the United States and what is in the interest of the United States. This is not isolationism, this is common sense,“, the US secretary of state added.