Kremlin Vows To 'Never' Abandon War Goals After Trump Renews Sanctions Threat

President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. The Kremlin has promised to “never” change its ongoing attack on Ukraine in response to Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose sanctions on Russia.The US president has repeatedly vowed to end the Ukraine war, but has so far failed to make any significant progress towards peace.Last week, Trump said he would get the war settled “or there’ll be hell to pay”.On Sunday – after Russia launched its largest air attack of the war over the weekend – the president claimed he was ready to move to the second phase of sanctioning against Moscow.While he did not elaborate on just what that might mean, he has previously suggested he might tighten sanctions against Russia’s cheap oil exports and has already penalised India for still buying its fuel.The EU also suggested it was working out new sanctions with the US.But Moscow poured cold water on these new warnings from Trump.Speaking to reporters on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: “No sanctions will be able to force the Russian Federation to change the consistent position that our president has repeatedly spoken about.”He added that the West’s attempts to punish Moscow has “turned out to be absolutely useless in terms of exerting pressure on Russia”.Peskov also said Kremlin wanted to try and achieve its goals through political and diplomatic methods – but that Ukraine and Europe do not want to engage.Actually, it’s Vladimir Putin who is refusing to meet Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss potential peace terms.The response is a snub to Trump who prided himself on the idea that Putin would come to a peace agreement just for the president.He even invited his Russian counterpart to Alaska for a rare face-to-face summit, but failed to secure any concessions, only giving up his own plan to get a ceasefire.The west has imposed thousands sets of sanctions on Russia ever since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022, while Europe weaned itself off Moscow’s cheap oil.But Russia’s economic growth has defied expectations of a crash primarily due to Moscow’s huge spending on the war.Putin controls a fifth of Ukraine’s sovereign land right now, and is still pushing his troops forward to seize more.Putin claims he wants to “demilitarise and denazify” Ukraine, and prevent Kyiv from joining Nato.After the so-called Coalition of the Willing pledged a post-war “reassurance force” for Ukraine last week, Putin also said: “If some troops appear there, especially now while the fighting’s going on, we proceed from the premise that these will be legitimate targets for destruction.”Related...'Be Quiet!': Trump Throws A Fit, Calls Reporter 'Darling' During Off-The-Rails TiradeFarage Branded 'Putin-Loving Trump Wannabe' By US Politician In Brutal SlapdownKeir Starmer Delivers Stark Warning To Donald Trump About His Attitude Towards Putin

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