US temporarily lifts sanctions against Russia: what is the reason?
14 August 2025 02:34
The United States Department of the Treasury has temporarily lifted some sanctions against the aggressor country of Russia. This was reported by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
The main reason is the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15.
According to the agency, America has temporarily allowed Russia to unblock frozen assets:
- unblock frozen assets;
- to conduct other prohibited transactions, except for those expressly specified in the license.
At the same time, according to the terms of the US Treasury, all transactions must be related to the meetings between Putin and Trump in Alaska on August 15.
The sanctions relief will be in effect until August 20, 2025.
However, the document does not allow the unblocking of sanctioned property and other financial transactions that are not provided for by the license.
What is known about the meeting between Putin and Trump
The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled for August 15, 2025, and will take place in the US northwestern state of Alaska.
Diplomatic consultations between Ukraine and the United States on the eve of the summit are virtually around the clock. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that Ukraine and Russia will have to exchange some territories after Kyiv receives security guarantees.
Later, it became known that European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would hold a phone conversation with Trump before his meeting with Russian dictator Putin.
This meeting will be Putin’s first face-to-face meeting with the US president since 2021, when he met with Joe Biden in Geneva, Switzerland.
Donald Trump, as the leader of the White House, and Vladimir Putin last held personal talks in 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2019 they met at the G20 summit in Japan, but in the format of delegations.
Already in his second term, since the beginning of 2025, Trump has spoken to Putin at least three times by phone.
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