{"id":44741,"date":"2026-02-06T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/bessent-further-us-sanctions-against-russia-depend-on-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:11:17","slug":"bessent-further-us-sanctions-against-russia-depend-on-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/bessent-further-us-sanctions-against-russia-depend-on-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent: Further US sanctions against Russia depend on peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that further US sanctions against Russia depend on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Washington will consider new sanctions against Russia&#039;s shadow fleet if peace talks do not yield results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2F1746655407-1651-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Bessent: Further US sanctions against Russia depend on peace talks\"\/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that further U.S. sanctions against Russia depend on negotiations aimed at ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>According to Bessent, who participated in talks with Russian officials and U.S. President Donald Trump&#039;s envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump&#039;s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Miami, Washington will consider new sanctions against Russia&#039;s shadow fleet \u2013 a step Trump has not taken since returning to office in January 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will take this into account. We will see what the peace talks lead to<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bessent said during a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He emphasized that the Trump administration&#039;s sanctions against Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil contributed to Russia&#039;s return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Kushner&#039;s role in the negotiations with the Russians, Bessent replied that, in his opinion, President Trump&#039;s son-in-law acted as a &quot;special envoy and mediator.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, the United States has prepared additional sanctions against Russia, but there are no signs of their implementation yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions bill against Russia gets Trump&#039;s support, but needs to be considered in US Congress &#8211; Fox News19.01.26, 19:13 \u2022 5541 view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that further US sanctions against Russia depend on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Washington will consider new sanctions against Russia&#039;s shadow fleet if peace talks do not yield results. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that further U.S. sanctions against Russia depend on negotiations aimed at ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}