Secretary of State Frame Polrico To affirm that the Trump administration is considering lifting sanctions against Russia. Rubio and Witkoff described the story as “totally fictional.”
“This is false,” said Rubio and Witkoff in a joint statement. “None of us have conversations about the elevation sanctions on Russia as part of a peace agreement with Ukraine. This is simply totally fictitious and irresponsible reports of Polico, a fifth -rate publication. If they have been Heron or Journal or journalism of journalism of journalist fiction.”
The report of Polrico He said that “five family people with the discussions,” he told The Outlet that Witkoff “has been the main defender of lifting the sanctions” against the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipe of Russia and “other Russian assets.”
“Two people familiar with the matter” said that Witkoff “has ordered his team to prepare a list of all the energy sanctions that the United States has put in Russia.”
The special envoy of the White House, Steve Witkoff, has been the main defender of lifting sanctions, said people familiar with conversations to politicians. Witkoff, who has said that he has developed a friendship with Putin in his role as Trump’s envoy to Moscow, has directed his team to elaborate a list of all the energy sanctions that the United States has put to Russia as part of what has been said.
One of the two Nord Stream 2 pipes built to deliver gases through the Baltic Sea to Germany is still operable despite an explosion of 2022 that destroyed a line, as well as the torque of pipes that were part of the explosion in September 202 thtstelment, detained halations, Halments Halted, Halted Haltat, investigations, the reports thought have linked The explosion of Ukrainians.
The exit also claimed that, although Witkoff has “raised the idea of lifting energy -related sanctions, the idea has not found much traction in the White House and that Rubio has tried to derail it”:
A second person said that, although Witkoff has raised the idea of lifting energy -related sanctions, the idea has not found much traction in the White House and that Rubio has tried to derail it. “This is not a cake in the oven that is baked, although the ingredients are assembling,” said this person.
The report of Polrico It occurs as, under Trump’s first mandate as president, Hey “signed a law that” would impose sanctions to any company that helps “Russia finish the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, BBC News reported in December 2019.
As Breitbart News previously reported, in May 2021, former President Joe Biden defended the lifting sanctions and allows the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline of Russia resuming.
In February 2022, the Biden administration restarts the sanctions to the Nord Stream 2 pipe, “a day after Germany freezed the certification of the project backed by Kremlin”, according to Axios.