{"id":1425582,"date":"2026-08-07T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-us-senate-has-officially-begun-debate-on-hellish-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:14:19","slug":"the-us-senate-has-officially-begun-debate-on-hellish-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-us-senate-has-officially-begun-debate-on-hellish-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Senate has officially begun debate on \u201chellish sanctions\u201d against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US Senate has begun debates on a bill on a new package of sanctions against Russia and Iran. The document provides, in particular, for a 500% tariff on imports of Russian energy resources and coal into the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/radiosvoboda\/status\/2085741364436693089\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported<\/a> by journalist Alex Raufoglu.<\/p>\n<p> The bill also provides for the possibility of introducing secondary duties of 100% for countries that purchase Russian oil and gas or help circumvent sanction restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> According to the correspondent, the final vote on the document could take place as early as August 7.<\/p>\n<p> The proposed sanctions could last for five years. Their aim is to increase economic pressure on Russia and limit Moscow&#8217;s ability to finance the war.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that Democratic US Congressmen Don Baier and Brad Schneider <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/demokraty-v-konhresi-ssha-rozkrytykuvaly-zakonoproiekt-pro-pekelni-sanktsii-proty-rosii-prychyny\/\">opposed the bill on the so-called &#8220;hell&#8221; sanctions against Russia<\/a> . At the same time, they stated that they continue to support sanctions pressure on Russia and aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bilshist-senatoriv-ssha-pidtrymaly-posylennia-sanktsiy-proty-rf\/\">a bipartisan bill to strengthen sanctions against Russia, developed by Senator Lindsey Graham, has already received the support of 61 US senators.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/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>The US Senate has begun debates on a bill on a new package of sanctions against Russia and Iran. The document provides, in particular, for a 500% tariff on imports of Russian energy resources and coal into the US. This is reported by journalist Alex Raufoglu. The bill also provides for the possibility of introducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":800947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1425582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425582","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}