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Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

UK pledges to ‘maintain pressure on Russia’ after Trump diesel deal with Moscow

President Donald Trump (Tom Brenner/AP) - (AP)

The UK has pledged to “maintain pressure on Russia” through “the toughest sanctions regime” it had ever imposed, after Donald Trump announced a deal to buy diesel from Moscow.

Mr Trump announced the deal to buy more than one million tonnes of diesel from Russia on Friday, as rising fuel prices heaped political pressure on him ahead of next month’s mid-term elections in the US.

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