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The Trump administration has unleashed harsh new sanctions against Russia as President Donald Trump’s push for talks to bring about an end to Moscow’s four-year-old war against Ukraine appears to be at a standstill.
The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it was sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two largest petroleum-producing companies, as part of an effort to take aim at the energy sector that Moscow has used to fund its war effort since invading Ukraine.
Treasury said the new sanctions were “a result of Russia’s lack of serious com
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