US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Russia’s finance minister Russia won’t get economic relief until Ukraine war ends

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov that Moscow will get no economic relief until the war in Ukraine ends, according to sources cited by Politico and Reuters. The two met on the sidelines of a G20 finance ministers summit in Asheville, North Carolina, marking Siluanov's first G20 appearance since Russia's full-scale invasion.

A Treasury undersecretary called the meeting 'productive,' saying the pair discussed Trump's plan for peace and economic growth. Russia's Finance Ministry, for its part, described the meeting only as covering 'cooperation issues,' without mentioning the war at all.

Siluanov's visit was not announced in advance, and it remains unspecified whether 'economic relief' refers to sanctions, aid, or something else entirely.

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Two governments walked out of the same room and produced two different press releases, one of which forgot to mention there's a war on. That omission is doing a lot of quiet work, and it is exactly the kind of thing a finance ministry statement is built to do.

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