Republican Senator Thom Tillis accused President Donald Trump of possibly violating US law through a Russian diesel deal, while Senator John Barrasso defended it as leverage against Vladimir Putin. Trump faces an October 18 deadline to decide sanctions on major Russian oil buyers
A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced the Decreasing Russian Oil Profits (DROP) Act, proposing financial sanctions on foreign entities purchasing Russian oil to curb Moscow’s war funding, while allowing limited exemptions for countries that support Ukraine.
