TAORMINA: Washington will not ease sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine and may even get tougher on Moscow, the White House said Friday, ending uncertainty over the US position on the thorny issue.”We are not lowering our sanctions on Russia,” Gary Cohn, US President Donald Trump´s top economic advisor, told reporters at the G7 summit of leading industrialised nations in Sicily.”If anything we would probably look to get tougher on Russia.”The EU and United States under then president Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Moscow over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and fighting in eastern Ukraine between government forces …read more
Source: Geo TV
