The US Senate is set to tighten sanctions against Russia and its allies: Trump has given preliminary approval to the idea.

The Senate will introduce a bill that would impose sanctions on Russia's trading partners, said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. This bill would increase pressure on the Kremlin. in order to achieve an end to the war against Ukraine, he writes Politico.

On November 16, President Donald Trump told reporters that the Senate's proposed legislation would be "good enough for me," sounding like a clear endorsement of sanctions. In a post in X, Graham, a key supporter of the initiative, wrote that "with President Trump's blessing," the Senate would move forward with sanctions to "maintain momentum and end this war honorably, fairly, once and for all."

"This legislation is designed to give President Trump more flexibility and authority to push Putin toward peace talks, both on himself and on countries like Iran that support him," Graham wrote. "I appreciate the broad bipartisan support for this legislation in the House and Senate."

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Senators were reluctant to advance the initiative without the president's explicit support, and the bill stalled for several weeks while Trump met with Vladimir Putin. But now, with the president's expressed support, Congress will be able to bring the resolution to a vote. It has more than 80 co-sponsors in the Senate.

The bill would allow Trump to impose secondary sanctions on countries like China and India, which purchase oil and gas from Russia, in order to cut off the flow of export revenues that largely finance the war in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on November 16, Trump announced that he was considering adding Iran to the list of countries facing sanctions.

"As you know, I proposed this, so any country that does business with Russia will be subject to very serious sanctions," Trump said. "They might even add Iran to that."

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Additional sanctions will create additional pressure on Russia to end its war against Ukraine. Last month, Trump imposed new sanctions against Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil. He took this step after admitting that his peace talks with Putin had been fruitless.

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