Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the US Conservative Conference. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 9Former US President Donald Trump believes that Europe is «taking advantage» of the US in the issue of a ban on energy imports from Russia.
"Just confirmed that most countries Europe will not follow the US in boycotting Russian oil and gas. As always, the United States is left alone, and Europe takes advantage of this as long as we protect them, while we read fake news that all together followed (US President Joe) Biden in the fight against Russia" Trump's statement.
Earlier Tuesday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order banning energy imports from Russia. In announcing this, he acknowledged that European countries may not follow this decision. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.