Vladimir V. Putin’s tactical triumph didn’t last long.
A week ago, it looked as if the Russian president had outmaneuvered his adversaries yet again with a deftly placed call to President Trump that scuttled any expansion in American support for Ukraine.
But on Thursday, Russians awoke to new American sanctions against their oil industry. It is the most direct punitive measure that Mr. Trump has taken against Russia in his second term, after electing not to follow through on a series of earlier threats.
The sanctions, which take aim at the heart of the Russian economy, dealt one of the biggest blows so far this year to Mr. Putin’s effort to cajole Mr. Trump into forcing Ukraine to capitulate to Russia’s main demands, including the concession of territory Ukraine still holds.
Still, analysts who study Mr. Putin said the new sanctions were unlikely to change the Russian president’s war goals. Russian companies have long been preparing for the possibility of increased sanctions, said Tatiana Stanovaya, the founder of the political analysis
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