Zelensky says Trump’s suspension of Russian sanctions will only help Putin and give him ‘every reason to continue war’

Ukraine‘s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Donald Trump‘s suspension of sanctions on Russia will only help Vladimir Putin and give him ‘every reason’ to ‘continue the war indefinitely’.

The US President passed an executive order late last night blocking the sanctions on oil and gas exports which were due to take effect tomorrow, a move the Kremlin hailed as ‘historic’.

They would have significantly damaged Russia’s war efforts against Ukraine and heavily punished countries who helped to facilitate and finance Moscow.

The US President claimed the waiver of the measures championed by the late senator Lindsey Graham and passed into law last month was

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