Trump, Russia and Ukraine
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Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, authorities said. They killed at least 16 inmates and wounded more than 90 others, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry said.
U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly shortened his deadline for hitting Russia with the most severe sanctions on its oil exports to date. While the market has called the president’s bluff thus far,
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States would start imposing tariffs and other measures on Russia "10 days from today" if Moscow showed no progress toward ending its more than three-year-long war in Ukraine.
The 15% tariff would be lower than previously threatened, but it would remain a high duty on America’s largest trading partner.
WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to follow through on his threat to place 100% tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil because it would worsen politically-damaging inflation pressures and his similar threat against buyers of Venezuelan oil has had limited success, especially in China.
Asked about a tariff rate "for the world," as Mr. Trump put it, the president responded, "I would say it'll be somewhere in the 15 to 20% range." The U.S. president made the remarks seated alongside U.
The figures are significant because they represent a major increase from the 10% baseline tariff Trump announced in April of this year.