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The US is no longer developing pressure plans on Moscow

Donald Trump's administration has dissolved an interagency working group created to develop pressure strategies on Russia in order to stimulate peace negotiations on war in Ukraine. About it reports Reuters with reference to its own sources in the US administration.

The work of the group, which began in the spring, gradually lost its support in May. According to officials, the participants concluded that President Trump himself is not interested in strengthening confrontation with Moscow. Despite the election promises to complete the Russian war against Ukraine on the first day of his cadence, he increasingly expressed disappointment about the lack of progress in this direction. Some sources even note that Trump has begun to voice the idea of ​​refusing the US to attempt to reach peace.

The group's work stopped about three weeks ago, after large -scale personnel abbreviations at the US National Security Council. In particular, all employees who dealt with the issues of the Russian-Ukrainian war were released. Among them is the Chief Coordinator of the RNB on Europe and Russia Andrew Peak.

Representatives of the National Security Council, the State Department, the Ministry of Finance, Pentagon and Intelligence took part in the activity of the group. Her task was not only to discuss sanctions, but also to develop economic incentives and pressure mechanisms on Eastern Europe and Central Asia - in particular, the possibility of influencing Kazakhstan to complicate the signs of bypassing sanctions was discussed.

As one of the sources emphasizes, the group was not part of the work on sanctional packages in Congress. Its goal was to prepare the White House tools "in the event that the president decides to take a harder position on Russia."

However, in the absence of political will, the group's work has become less relevant. Trump himself, commenting on the issue of the Ukrainian-Russian War in the March interview with NBC News, said he was "very evil and annoyed" by Vladimir Putin because of his words about the allegedly illegitimacy of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. However, Trump's rhetoric about Moscow remains soft in general: during the G7 summit in Canada, he called Russia's exclusion from the "big eight" a mistake.

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