Trump threatens Russia with ‘large scale’ sanctions after massive missile attack on Ukraine

Trump threatens Russia with ‘large scale’ sanctions after massive missile attack on Ukraine

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Story by Andrew Feinberg

08/03/2025

트럼프, 우크라이나에 대한 대규모 미사일 공격 후 러시아에 '대규모' 제재 위협

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After weeks of softening American policy towards Russia by pulling military and intelligence support for Ukraine’s defense, President Donald Trump threatened Moscow with further economic and trade sanctions after a massive Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa triggered fires and damaged energy infrastructure.

우크라이나 방어를 위한 군사 및 정보 지원을 끌어내며 러시아에 대한 미국의 정책을 몇 주 동안 완화한 후, 도널드 트럼프 대통령은 우크라이나 항구 도시 오데사에 대한 러시아의 대규모 드론 공격으로 화재가 발생하고 에너지 인프라가 손상되자 모스크바에 추가 경제 및 무역 제재를 가하겠다고 위협했다.

 

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said Russia was “absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield” and declared that he was “considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia” as a result.

The president added that any sanctions he was considering would remain in place until “a cease fire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached” in the years-long conflict. He also exhorted both countries to “get to the table right now, before it is too late.”

Speaking in the Oval Office a short time later on Friday, Trump told reporters he still believes Putin, who first began sending Russian troops into Ukraine when he illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, wants peace based on statements from the Russian leader.

Trump said he thinks the U.S. is currently “doing very well with Russia,” which he admitted is “bombing the hell out of Ukraine.”

트럼프는 트루스 소셜(Truth Social)에 올린 글에서 러시아가 "전장에서 우크라이나를 완전히 '두드리고' 있다"고 말하면서 "러시아에 대한 대규모 은행 제재, 제재, 관세를 고려하고 있다"고 선언했다.

트럼프 대통령은 수년간 지속된 분쟁에서 "휴전과 평화에 대한 최종 합의"가 이루어질 때까지 자신이 고려하고 있는 모든 제재는 그대로 유지될 것이라고 덧붙였다. 그는 또한 양국이 "너무 늦기 전에 지금 당장 협상 테이블로 나와야 한다"고 촉구했다.

트럼프는 금요일 대통령 집무실에서 잠시 후 연설하면서 기자들에게 2014년 크림반도를 불법적으로 합병했을 때 처음으로 러시아 군대를 우크라이나에 파병하기 시작한 푸틴이 러시아 지도자의 발언에 근거해 평화를 원한다고 여전히 믿는다고 말했다.

트럼프는 미국이 현재 "러시아와 아주 잘 지내고 있다"고 생각한다고 말하면서, 러시아가 "우크라이나를 지옥처럼 폭격하고 있다"고 인정했다.

 

 

“I'm finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. They don’t have the cards,” he said.

Pressed on whether he thinks Putin is taking advantage of Trump’s decision to pause aid to Ukraine, he replied: “I think he’s doing what anybody else would do… And I think he's hitting him harder than he's been hitting him. And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now.”

But Trump said he would not permit Ukraine’s forces to receive defensive weapons to prevent more Russian attacks because he has to know that Ukraine wants “to settle” with Russia.

“I don’t know that they want to settle. If they don't want to settle, we're out of there because we want them to settle,” he said.

"솔직히 우크라이나를 상대하는 것이 더 어렵다는 것을 알게 되었습니다. 그들은 카드를 가지고 있지 않습니다"라고 그는 말했다.

푸틴이 우크라이나에 대한 원조를 중단하기로 한 트럼프의 결정을 이용하고 있다고 생각하느냐는 질문에 그는 "나는 그가 다른 사람이 했을 일을 하고 있다고 생각한다. 그리고 나는 그가 그를 때리는 것보다 더 세게 때리고 있다고 생각한다. 그리고 아마 그 위치에 있는 사람이라면 누구나 지금 그 일을 하고 있을 것이라고 생각합니다."

그러나 트럼프는 우크라이나가 러시아와 "화해"하기를 원한다는 것을 알아야 하기 때문에 우크라이나군이 러시아의 더 많은 공격을 막기 위해 방어 무기를 받는 것을 허용하지 않을 것이라고 말했다.

"그들이 정착을 원하는지 모르겠다. 만약 그들이 정착하기를 원하지 않는다면, 우리는 그들이 정착하기를 원하기 때문에 거기서 나간다"고 그는 말했다.

 

Despite the most recent threat to add sanctions on Russia by Trump, is unclear what, if any, further sanctions or trade barriers he could impose on Moscow that would have an immediate effect on Russia’s economy.

The president’s latest social media broadside comes just one week after a disastrous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (Associated Press)

 

Since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a large-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukrainian territory in February 2022, the United States and European Union, along with other Western democracies, have worked to cut off Moscow from the global financial system and have imposed a series of crippling sanctions that have exacted a steep price but have not meaningfully reduced Russia’s ability to wage war because Putin has successfully exploited alliances with other authoritarian countries such as Iran and North Korea to obtain needed military materiel.

 

 

Despite this most recent threat to levy new sanctions against Russia, Trump has privately asked aides about providing Moscow with sanctions relief in exchange for engaging in peace talks.

The president’s latest social media broadside comes just one week after a disastrous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, after which the Ukrainian leader was asked to leave the White House without signing a mineral rights deal both sides had touted as a way to secure continued support from Trump and his administration.

 

Zelensky left the White House roughly an hour after the emotional eruption, cutting short talks that were supposed to cement an economic relationship between Washington and Kyiv and create a mechanism to repay the billions in American military aid that has been sent to Ukraine since 2022.

On Monday, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to attack Zelensky in a post claiming that the United States “will not put up with” his sentiments “for much longer” after Zelensky said he expects to maintain a relationship with the U.S. despite his fraught relationship with Trump.

 

But on Tuesday, he told members of Congress during an address that he was “working tirelessly to end the savage conflict” between Ukraine and Russia and said he’d received a letter from Zelensky indicating that Kyiv was “ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.”

American and Ukrainian officials are set to meet for talks next week in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.

 

 

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