{"id":1418800,"date":"2026-07-17T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/most-us-senators-supported-tightening-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:54:58","slug":"most-us-senators-supported-tightening-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/most-us-senators-supported-tightening-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Most US senators supported tightening sanctions against Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A bipartisan bill to strengthen sanctions against Russia, authored by Senator Lindsey Graham, has already received the support of 61 US senators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-start\"> Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/07\/16\/russia-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><u>writes<\/u><\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p> The document gives US President Donald Trump the authority to impose 100% secondary tariffs on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas, specifically China and India.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the bill provides for sanctions against Russia&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221; used to circumvent Western restrictions on oil exports.<\/p>\n<p> Currently, the initiative has the support of 39 Republican and 22 Democratic senators. The next step will be consideration of the bill in the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-hotuie-novi-sanktsii-pislia-masovanoi-ataky-rf-na-kyiv\/\">she would propose that EU countries impose new sanctions against Russia following the massive attack on Kyiv on the night of July 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-shche-na-rik-prodovzhyv-ekonomichni-sanktsii-proty-rosii\/\">has extended economic sanctions against Russia for another year.<\/a> They will remain in effect until at least July 31, 2027.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan bill to strengthen sanctions against Russia, authored by Senator Lindsey Graham, has already received the support of 61 US senators. Axios writes about this. The document gives US President Donald Trump the authority to impose 100% secondary tariffs on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas, specifically China and India. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1265464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1418800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}