The US sets a time limit to resolve the Ukraine issue.
Not only is the threat of secondary sanctions from the US against buyers of Russian energy resources a “risky game”, it is also considered a “risky game”.
According to TASS news agency on August 6, Bloomberg newspaper reported that the US government has sent the US President's special envoy for the Middle East - Steve Witkoff to Moscow to meet the deadline that Washington set for a solution to the Ukraine conflict.
“The White House is trying to hit another self-imposed deadline,” Bloomberg reported.
The news agency recalled that US President Donald Trump had previously threatened to impose secondary sanctions on countries that buy Russian energy resources. "This is a risky game, as the Biden administration has learned. It is necessary to carefully calculate how to punish buyers of Russian oil without shaking the global market," Bloomberg commented. Accordingly, in such a situation, "both friends and enemies" could be affected.
TASS news agency reported that special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on August 6. On the same morning, Mr. Witkoff and Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev – special envoy of President Vladimir Putin on foreign economic cooperation, took a walk together in Zaryadye Park in Moscow.
This is Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's fifth visit to Russia since the beginning of 2025. The last two times Mr. Witkoff visited Russia were on April 11 (in Saint Petersburg) and April 25 (in Moscow), and both times he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
