London — The United States is weighing easing Russian oil sanctions to cool the global price surge.
In his reaction to this development, Alexander Kirk, a sanctions Campaigner at Urgewald, said:
“The call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin only underlines what is at stake. Easing sanctions on Russia now would throw the Kremlin a rope at the very moment the walls are closing in. Ukrainians will pay for that choice in blood.
“Every waiver, every exemption, every delay carries the same message: wait long enough and the West will blink. A regime that feeds its war machine on oil revenues is watching. And it is rubbing its hands.
“At the very moment Moscow is positioning itself as a partner in solving the global energy crisis, the West should remember that this is the same fossil fuel revenue stream funding the war in Ukraine.
“You do not reward aggressors. You do not open your wallet to a regime with blood on its hands. And you do not signal to the world that America’s resolve has a price tag.
“The security of every European nation hangs on this moment. America must hold the line.”
