Trump's turnaround on sanctions targets Russia's oil companies that fund the war in Ukraine | AP News

the biggest takeaway was Trump’s willingness to add sanctions to those imposed under the Biden administration.

“This is the first set of sanctions from President Trump after he returned to the White House,” said Weafer. “And the fear now is that now that he’s broken, kind of like the seal, as it were, that if he is dissatisfied with any progress with Russia going forward, then he may come with more and more damaging sanctions.”

“So many of these measures have been implemented too slowly and ... a little bit at a time so that Russia has had time to adapt and to prepare and to prevent and to react,” Perrotta Berlin said.