The White House wants to lift some of the sanctions against Russia - Reuters

To spread: sources report that the Trump administration was asked the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to prepare options for mitigating sanctions against Russia. The United States develops a plan for potential softening of sanctions against Russia, as President Donald Trump seeks to restore relations with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the American official and insider, familiar with the situation.

Sources note that the White House has instructed the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to prepare a list of sanctions that can be softened so that US officials can discuss it with Russia's representatives in the coming days in the framework of wide negotiations of the administration with Moscow to improve diplomatic and economic relations.

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The so -called documents with options are often drawn up by officials who work on sanctions, but a specific White House request for such a document in recent days emphasizes the readiness of Trump and his advisers to mitigate sanctions against Russia in the framework of a potential agreement with Moscow. It is not yet clear what Washington may require specifically in exchange for mitigating sanctions.

The agency notes that the White House, the State Department and the US Department of Finance and the Russian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request to comment on the situation. Last year, the Kremlin described relations as "lower than zero" under the administration of Joe Baiden, a democrat, who supported Ukraine with help and weapons and imposed severe sanctions against Russia to punish it for a full -scale invasion in 2022.

However, Trump, who promised a rapid cessation of war, quickly changed the US policy, starting negotiations with Moscow, starting with a phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12, after which meetings of officials of US and Russia took place in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. In January, Trump threatened to strengthen sanctions against Russia if Putin did not want to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine.

However, recently, Trump administration representatives have openly recognized the possibility of mitigating sanctions against Moscow. On February 26, Trump told reporters that sanctions against the Russian Federation could be softened "at some point. " According to US sources, the White House asked officials of the State Department and the Ministry of Finance to develop a possible plan for mitigating sanctions before Trump continued the state of emergency in Ukraine last week.

The state of emergency imposes sanctions on certain assets and people involved in the war of Russia. These measures, implemented by the administration of the then President Barack Obama, have been in force since March 2014, when Russia has annexed Ukrainian Crimea. Currently, it is unclear what sanctions against Russia the Trump administration will consider first and foremost to abolish.

Recall that a few days ago, the United Kingdom has announced the largest sanctions against Russia since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Not only the aggressor state but also Chinese manufacturers of military components will fall under this package of new sanctions. More about the new package of restrictions wrote focus on February 24.