Trump ready for Russia’s sanctions if NATO allies stop energy imports

President Donald Trump has doubled his request that the European nations cease all Russian energy purchases when he reflects on his first sanctions against Moscow since his return to the office in the midst of his war in Ukraine.

Addressing journalists on Sunday evening, Trump said that European nations, especially those of NATO, are not enough to counter Russia, despite the new series of sanctions promulgated by the EU last week.

“They are not doing the job. NATO must come together. Europe must come together,” said Trump. “Europe … These are my friends, but they buy oil from Russia, so we can’t expect to be the only ones, you know, everywhere.”

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“Europe buys oil from Russia. I don’t want them to buy oil,” he continued, noting that the sanctions that Europe has issued on Russia and Russian officials “are not difficult enough.”

“I am ready to make sanctions, but they will have to harden their sanctions proportional to what I do,” confirmed Trump.

While European nations have considerably reduced their dependence on Moscow oil after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, they did not entirely cut it – in particular nations such as Hungary, Slovakia, France, Belgium and Spain, which are the main European importers of Russian energy.

Hungary – whose president remains friendly with Putin, although he is a NATO nation – is the main importer in Russian crude oil and pipeline gas, buying more than double Russian energy imports from the European nation.

France, which is the second largest European Russian energy buyer, continues to import liquefied natural gas (LNL), which has largely bypassed EU sanctionspartly due to legally restrictive long -standing commitments.

These agreements mean that Paris has undertaken to take contracts to “take or pay” in the early 2030s or cope with arbitration or penalties. The reports suggest, however, that LNG imports are not only planned for French consumption, but are also transmitted to third -party nations like Germany.

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Last month, the EU data protection authority confirmed that the block had imported almost Russian $ 5.2 billion in the first half of 2025.

Trump’s comments came one day after sending a Letter to NATO That said, it is “ready to make major sanctions against Russia when all NATO nations have accepted and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO nations cease to buy Russia oil”, according to an article he did on TRUTH.

But when he was asked on Sunday on his plans to strike Russia with additional American sanctions – which have not been widened since Biden administration – he suggested that Europe could need Stop all LNG imports Also.

The president said that all Russian imports are supposed to be prohibited at the time and said: “The agreement is that they are not supposed – whether it is natural gas or cigarettes, I don’t care – they are not supposed to buy in Russia.”

The president did not develop the agreement to which he referred, and he did not comment on the United States $ 2.1 billion in Russian imports He bought during the first five months of 2025, composed largely of enriched uranium, palladium and fertilizer.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Ap photo / Jae C. Hong)

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In addition, he called on NATO allies to strike China with “50% to 100% prices” which, according to him, would only be withdrawn after the end of the war in Ukraine – a rate which is currently higher than the prices at 30% of Washington has struck in Beijing, but which could considerably extend given the recent threats of Trump to hit China with China with China with China with China with China with China with China with China Prices up to 200%.

The White House did not immediately answer questions from Fox News Digital concerning this report.