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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte astatine the White House connected Wednesday arsenic the U.S. Treasury Department levied sanctions against Russian lipid companies.
Trump announced those sanctions connected Truth Social connected Wednesday, demanding that Russia hold to a ceasefire with Ukraine.
"They are tremendous sanctions, precise large against 2 large lipid companies. Don't deliberation they volition beryllium connected for long," Trump said.
"NATO wants to assistance present connected your imaginativeness of peace," Rutte said.
Asked astir a imaginable gathering with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said, "It conscionable didn't consciousness close to me."
"It didn't consciousness similar we were going to get to the spot we person to get, truthful I canceled it, but we'll bash it successful the future," helium said.
Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy past week arsenic helium pushes for a ceasefire successful the region.
Rutte and Trump are said to person a bully relationship, and Rutte is known to beryllium a persuasive dependable successful Trump's receptor connected matters concerning Ukraine and Russia's ongoing war. The president has repeatedly called for an end to the war, and Rutte has called for a ceasefire and for the warfare to extremity wherever it presently stands.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy has traveled to Norway and Sweden to unafraid the jets Ukraine needs for its warfare effort. He has been trying to unafraid Tomahawk missiles from the U.S., but Trump has appeared to shoot down his request.
