As Russia continues bombarding Ukraine despite recent peace talks, “all options are on the table,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a Fox News interview.
He said the Trump administration is weighing sanctions on Russia.
“I think everything’s on the table,” Bessent said. “President Putin, since the historic meeting in Anchorage, since the phone call, when the European leaders and President Zelensky were at the White House the following Monday, has done the opposite of following through on what he indicated he wanted to do. As a matter of fact, he has, in a despicable, despicable manner, increased the bombing campaign.”
Fox News asked Bessent about the U.S.-India relationship, as India has been purchasing Russian oil and is currently meeting with the leaders of China and Russia, among the 20 nations attending a meeting in China this week.
“This is a longstanding meeting, it’s called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and I think it’s largely performative,” Bessent said. “I think at the end of the day, India is the most populous democracy in the world. Their values are much closer to ours and to China’s than to Russia’s.”
“I think at the end of the day, two great countries will get this solved. But the Indians have not been great actors in terms of buying Russian oil and then reselling it, financing the Russian war effort in Ukraine.”
