I had a good meeting with U.S. Senators @LindseyGrahamSC and @SenBlumenthal. I’m grateful for their participation in the Ukraine Recovery Conference, as well as in the meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. It is important that the United States joined this format – for the… pic.twitter.com/SmAdgSbznM
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 10, 2025
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said Sunday that “a turning point regarding Russia invasion of Ukraine is coming” amid a bipartisan effort in Congress to impose new economic sanctions aimed at ramping up pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine.
“For months, President Trump has tried to entice [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the peace table. He’s put tariffs against countries that allow fentanyl to come in our country, other bad behavior — he’s left the door open regarding Russia. That door is about to close,” Graham said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
Graham outlined that he and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who also appeared Sunday on “Face the Nation,” are leading 85 cosponsors on a sanctions bill that he said would make a “sledgehammer available to President Trump to go after Putin’s economy and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine.”
The South Carolina Republican explained that countries like China, India and Brazil buy oil and other goods from Russia, saying “that’s the money Putin uses to prosecute the war.” Graham said the sanctions package would give the president the ability to impose 500% tariffs on any country that helps Russia. And he noted that the president would have the discretion to dial the tariffs up or down, giving him “maximum flexibility.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-richard-blumenthal-russia-sanctions-congress/
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