Trump says no meeting with Putin until Ukraine deal in place
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At least six people were killed overnight shortly after President Donald Trump said he didn't "want to have a waste of time" holding a summit with the Russian leader.
Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine early Wednesday, causing power outages across most of the country, setting homes ablaze and killing at least six people, including a six-month-old baby,
President Trump abruptly canceled a second meeting with Russian President Putin in Budapest and instead approved new strong sanctions on Russian oil. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 7th district,
After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.
Long-range strikes on infrastructure are becoming increasingly critical as front-line advances stall.
Trump said Oct. 22 that the sanctions "certainly will have an impact" on Russia and that he hopes Putin will "become reasonable."
Trump's move pushed global oil prices up 5%. Chinese state oil majors to suspend Russian oil purchases in the short term, trade sources said. Refiners in India, the largest buyer of seaborne Russian oil,