The United States will soon ban Europeans from buying Russian oil . Donald Trump said this at an event also attended by US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker. "Hey, Matt, they need to stop buying oil from Russia. Can you say that?" the president said. "Europeans are buying oil from Russia, and that shouldn't happen. Matt won't allow that for long," he added.
Meanwhile , the Pentagon is warning European diplomats that the United States plans to cut some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, the Baltic states bordering Russia . The Pentagon is reportedly telling Europe that it must become less dependent on the United States and that it will shift its attention to other priorities.
Zelensky will meet the US president next week at the UN, but in the meantime he is pushing for sanctions against Moscow: "Tying them to demands that European countries act first means wasting time," he said.
(Unioneonline)
