Public sentiment towards the US sanctions on Russian oil companies is predominantly skeptical and frustrated. Many users doubt the effectiveness and sincerity of these sanctions, viewing them as largely symbolic and politically motivated rather than impactful. There is a strong criticism directed at political figures, particularly Trump, and a widespread feeling of helplessness about the ongoing conflict, with calls for more substantial actions or peace initiatives.

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Top_Range_3211

I think all US news should be withheld for 8 days in case Orange Ass changes his mind.

Fiery_Hand

About 35–40% of Russia’s refining capacity is idle due to drone strikes. This seems to work better...

RTgoods

Mgnickel

Distraction to look like he’s doing something while telling Ukraine to concede their land.
Trump won’t sanction shit. Putin is his handler.

BaneOfMyLife

How long before he walks these ones back, too?

AmethystWind

Sanctions can be evaded. 

Tomahawks can’t.

yzerman88

US does thing that Europe doesn’t and people still manage to complain. I swear Trump could drop a nuke on the Kremlin and people would say he’s a puppet. There’s plenty of criticism but Jesus

DankeSebVettel

Why do I feel like this is only being done now because Russia isn’t as affected since Ukraine has been blowing up their refineries so much. Feels like a bandwagon thing to try and win back some support

ProjectPorygon

Probably because Russia’s refineries were bombed and don’t even have enough for themselves. By saying sanctions just to make GOP look better.

Fossile

In line with other commentators, it seems to me incomprehensible that it has taken over three years, numerous disgraceful attacks directed against defenceless civilian targets in Ukraine by Russia and the continuing murder of the innocent to make this happen.

 What else is available to the West and is just not used? Frozen enemy assets sitting in banks not being used against the aggressor, that's one of them.

Puzzleheaded-Car3562

Sanctions? I thought we stopped trading with Russia?

Muffafuffin

They have worse tariffs on Canada then Russia Lol

james-HIMself

The new ballroom will have Epstein's name on it

mick601

Yeah yea we have heard this broke record over and over

denn1959-Public_396

enough of this shit. russia just targeted a kindergarten. no fly zone now. if you let ukraine lose you're just gonna end up in this position again anyway, only the conditions will be far worse. take some fucking real action.

thedeadsuit

Putin has the Epstein tapes. Trump knows this and won't do anything of consequence. War could've been over months ago if we gave Ukraine tomahawks and let them take care of business. But we didn't and we won't bc he wants Putin to win or stop. Release the Epstein files and let's take care of the pedo problem.

GameGreek

It doesn’t matter as long as China and India are still buying from Russia.

BlueyedIrush

Uh-oh. Time for Pooty to make a phone call to Trumpy and end this right now. /s

CharcoalGreyWolf

AdventurousLet548

They blew up a Kindergarten in Ukraine today and we are going to sanction them.  Just. Wow.

Excellent-Vanilla486

The fact this isn’t bigger news on this site should tell you all you need to know about this site and the personnel who use it.

BlueberryMuffin8462

Are they still able to export with a large part of the refineries on fire?

UnhappyWalrus3570

AFTER the Ukrainians did all the work and damaged the refineries causing massive disruptions.

Spiritual_Room6833

Why didn't Biden already do this?

Why didn't Biden provide Tomahawk's for the whole duration of his presidency?

Substantial_Pilot699

One call to dotard Donnie from vladdy daddy and that will be the end of any perceived sanctions on Russia.

TemporarySolution572

Ok serious question before I read down - why was this not done before? Why are we tariffing India for doing exact same thing? I am genuinely confused- why wasn’t this done years ago?

NotRude_juatwow

How is he going to TACO on this one?

Anyone want to offer some guesses?

Coupe368

CommitteeStatus

The war has been going on for over two years. And this is happening now?  Ridiculous

Designer_Buy_1650

Smoke and mirrors. Trump already got a good fuckin from master putin last week. 

Pathetic. America has fallen.

ballarn123

I  mean this is just essentially sanctioning/tariffing India again. I doubt they are going to touch the Chinese banks.

Lokon19

"I just felt it was time." What a stupid ass. And Biden apparently didn't feel it was time. Only now are we at the 19th level of sanctions. This will go down in history as winning the Neville Chamberlain Award for Depraved Neglect.

borninthewaitingroom

What bullshit. Russia can't produce enough oil for themselves much less anyone else. It's a safe bet for the fuck in charge of the US to announce sanctions. LOSER.

trucker96961

Poundcake2RedVelvet

On *the competition to* ruzzia's largest oil companies.     

Fixed it!

SquirrelParticular17

Infinite_Respect_

These sanctions most likely will just hurt any other country somehow, if even sanctions will take place at all..

Head_Summer2052

That’ll teach Putin to never ghost Trump on a Budapest rendezvous again.

Witty-Emu7741

*Sanctions* to be believed only when weapons are delivered to Ukraine

Astigi

US keeps announcing things, but does nothing.

mariusherea

They published the list already: [https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0290](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0290)

It's Rosneft and Lukoil and all their &gt;50%-owned subsidiaries.

This is going to be interesting as Lukoil has a couple of refineries in the EU, e.g. one in Romania (which just happened to experience a fire). The other one is in Bulgaria.

Rosneft has share in three in Germany, but &gt;50% only in the Schwedt one, and that is under trusteeship, so I'm not sure if it's affected. Germany was [pressing them to sell](https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tells-rosneft-find-buyer-or-lose-refinery/a-68477965). When the UK imposed similar sanctions last week, they eventually [made exceptions for that](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/uk-clears-dealings-with-german-managed-rosneft-refineries-amid-russia-sanctions/articleshow/124738339.cms).

Just-Sale-7015

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is planning substantial new sanctions on Russia, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday.
“We are going to either announce after the close this afternoon or first thing tomorrow morning a substantial pickup in Russia sanctions,” Bessent told reporters.

Negotiations over ending the war in Ukraine have stalled, with President Trump putting off a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest. Trump previewed Tuesday that the U.S. would make a significant Russia announcement within two days.

The imposition of additional sanctions would be a clear signal that Trump’s patience with Putin is wearing thin as he looks for ways to pressure Russia into a peace deal that would end nearly four years of fighting.

Distinct_Front_4336

The fact the EU still brought oil gas and other resources from Russia after crimea and the Salisbury attacks shows how pathetic the EU

Russia literally used weapons of mass destruction on an EU member state(the uk was still in the EU at the time) snd Europe did nothing

jrob10997

Also from FT

The US is imposing sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, aiming to “degrade” Vladimir Putin’s war chest and support Donald Trump’s effort to end the war in Ukraine.

The move marks the first time Trump has imposed direct costs on Russia over the war.

"Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire,” said Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. “Given President Putin’s refusal to end this senseless war, Treasury is sanctioning Russia’s two largest oil companies that fund the Kremlin’s war machine.”

He said the US was prepared to take further action. “We encourage our allies to join us in and adhere to these sanctions,” he said.

A number of Russian-based subsidiaries majority-owned by Rosneft and Lukoil have also been sanctioned under the move, which could bar them from all transactions in US dollars.

Crude oil prices rose more than 3 per cent.


Last week, the UK unveiled sanctions on the two oil majors, while the EU is set to announce its 19th package of penalties on Moscow, including a ban on imports of Russian liquefied natural gas.

In January, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Russian oil majors Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas but held off imposing penalties on Rosneft and Lukoil over concerns that it could drive up global energy prices.

Wednesday’s announcement by the Trump administration means that Russia’s four largest oil companies have now been hit with US sanctions.

Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin over the continued war, now in its fourth year.


“Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere,” Trump said on Wednesday in the Oval Office.

Asked about the decision to impose sanctions on Moscow, Trump said: “I just felt it was time.”

“These are tremendous sanctions,” Trump said. “We hope that they won’t be on for long. We hope that the war will be settled.”

One day EU wont spend more on Russian oil than aid to Ukraine.

EnergyOwn6800

There's 100% some billionaire buddy of Trump who pushed for this so that he profits in the stock market with advance knowledge of what will happen. 

Said that, it's better that his banana republic schemes work against Russia than in favour...

AdminEating_Dragon

Trump zig and zags and right now he is zagging. Given the big ramp in oil by the Saudis as of late it is indeed the right time to pull this lever.


In 2022 the war made oil prices shoot up as the world was not ready for a fossil market without Russia. Today, that gap is more and more being filled by rising supply from the middle east, east Asia and the rise of renewable.

Timely-Switch-2601

DABOSSROSS9

slipped-my-mind

I want to see it before i believe anything from this criminal team in the white house

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KayNicola

Prediction: Putin will make a phone call and then the sanction is paused because Trump believes Putin "wants peace".

Spineless Trump is going to TACO again on this.

wizgset27

Ignore this BS. Come back when there is a non US study on the impact of any US sanctions on Russia.

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And who will abide by these sanctions? The US allies that were already moving away from Russian oil? Or India and China, who have so far been unwilling to give up the competitive edge cheap Russian oil provides them?

any-name-untaken

The Trump administration on Wednesday [imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies](https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/bessent-sanctions-russia?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=missions&amp;utm_source=reddit) as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

President Donald Trump had for weeks signaled he could impose penalties against Russia for its continuation of the war but had failed to take major punitive measures until Wednesday.

In remarks in the Oval Office, Trump explained he “felt it was time” for the sanctions, noting he “waited a long time” to impose them. Still, the US president said he hopes “they won’t be on for long” because the war will end.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement Wednesday that it was “the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire.”

I think I’ve received more whiplash from this administration’s Russia/Ukraine policy than the last 15 years of driving

clark_sterling

Awesome. I hope this has some teeth to it. Anyone here with some knowledge about these kinds of things who could give us a rundown of what the implications of this will be? Is this a significant set of sanctions?

65456478663423123

Ceasefire on what terms though? That's the big question

DolanTheCaptan

This won't hold for more than a phone call, but please God just give us a miracle 🙏 let Trump be convinced that Russia was behind Chuck Schumer this whole time!

Crimsonsporker

sanctions were/are happening again and this is a very clear letter to puting that he had nothing to do with it...it was the treasury dept

No_Pickle_2113

When the "president of peace" shit didn't work because the israel / palestine conflict is the israel / palestine conflict so he needs a new actual war to end quick, backstabbing his boyfriend putin.

Unlucky_School_661

It would be more impressive if he'd done it before embarrassing our entire country for 10 months trying to convince us Putin was actually a super cool chill guy. Glad he's doing it now, but there is probably several thousand ukranians who have died as a direct result of Trump being a moron.

Ill-Supermarket-1821

Hey if he actually goes through with this together with Ukraine wrecking Russia's refineries, it might actually do something.

Bikalo

Can somebody explain to me how this actually affects Russia. As far as I know we don't really buy Russian oil.

Exotic_Chance2303

IronicInternetName

Imagine if the thing that finally gets putin is a fucking heart attack of having to deal with Trumps schizo Foreign Policy

WeeWoooFashion

In before putin calls Trump and the sanction is just a suggestion

Ten_Ju

Thanag0r

More than anything that has happened thus far. I want to know that the line is for MAGA regards.

FSOKrYpTo

This really proves that Trump is Putin's puppet. Hillary was right all along.

BIGKEANUCHUNGUS420

Putin looks like he's worried somebody off to the side is organizing the next Russian revolution.

&gt;US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent [announced the sanctions](https://www.itv.com/news/2025-10-15/uk-announces-sanctions-on-largest-russian-oil-company-over-ukraine-war) against Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as dozens of subsidiaries, on Wednesday.

Fuel funded the war and continues funding it, whomever was buying that fuel is about to complain to us.

&gt;Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that Trump’s proposal to freeze the conflict where it stands on the front line “was a good compromise” — a step that could pave the way for negotiations.

Freezing the conflict would save a large number of lives, but Putin isn't going to do that for the same reasons he wasn't going to negotiate a settlement last year or the year before. *Give me everything including your security* is not negotiating, it's just "the war continues" plus noise and wasted time. If Ukraine was going to fold it would have folded immediately like *they or Russia's other targets did previously,* the fact they're not folding means Russia gets to keep chasing them through the drone swarms.

Chasing your opponent from location to location is more hazardous than simply being the attacker, they get to set up traps and ambushes the entire way. Ukraine isn't losing people at that pace because Ukraine isn't grinding down entrenched enemy defensive positions with charging meat waves - that's what *Russia* does.

D_Ethan_Bones

Russia is totally dependent on oil, this will actually hurt. Gas is often talked about but it’s oil that is 90% if what makes them functional. Keep pinching them here.

renge-refurion

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