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    "parsed_content": "Trump AdministrationDefense of A.I.How Trump Stifles SpeechVoting by MailApproval RatingAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTTrump Wants Putin to End the War. He May Offer Russia Business Deals First.A new sanctions bill is meant to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine. But President Trump is doubling down on a different approach: offering enticements to Russia.Listen \u00b7 7:35 min Share full articlePresident Donald Trump shaking hands with President Vladimir Putin of Russia during their meeting in Alaska last year.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesBy Anton TroianovskiReporting from Washington and Kyiv, UkraineSept. 17, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google When President Trump\u2019s envoys sat down with Vladimir V. Putin at the Kremlin this month, the Russian leader exuded confidence.Within months, he said, Russian troops would finally capture Ukraine\u2019s entire Donbas region. And Russia was poised to pummel Ukraine\u2019s electricity grid, setting the stage for a miserable winter.Then one of the envoys, Jared Kushner, tried to push back. With all due respect, you told us exactly that a year ago, Mr. Kushner said to the Russian president. What are the chances we come back here in another year and you are again saying the same thing? Maybe we don\u2019t lose a year?The exchange, described by a person familiar with the talks and by a U.S. official, captured the quandary of Mr. Trump\u2019s more than 18 months of efforts to end the war in Ukraine.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCongress this week passed a landmark sanctions bill taking aim at Russia\u2019s energy sector, a new attempt to make Russia \u201csuffer\u201d for its invasion and to pressure Mr. Putin to make compromises.But even as that bill makes its way to Mr. Trump\u2019s desk, the Trump administration is doubling down on a different approach: offering benefits for Russia that officials hope will get Mr. Putin to consider ending his war.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Russia and Ukraine? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.Among the new inducements: the White House is now considering signing business deals with Russia before it stops fighting in Ukraine, according to two people close to the talks. The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to be candid about the negotiations, said that deals with Russia before the end of the war were possible because they would show that the United States is serious about a reset relationship with Russia.The approach represents a shift from Mr. Trump\u2019s pledge last year that business deals with Russia would not come \u201cuntil we get the war settled.\u201d It indicates that Mr. Trump\u2019s envoys for ending the war, Steve Witkoff and Mr. Kushner, are groping for new ways to entice Russia to stop fighting, now that it has become clear that Ukraine will not withdraw from the swath of its own territory that Mr. Putin insists he must control before the war ends.And it contrasts with the approach advocated by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress \u2014 not to mention Kyiv\u2019s European allies and Ukraine itself \u2014 that only heightened economic and military pressure on Mr. Putin can compel him to compromise.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cThis bill will cripple Russia\u2019s war machine and finally bring Putin to the negotiating table,\u201d Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas and one of the sanctions bill\u2019s leading proponents, said on Wednesday after a bipartisan majority passed the legislation, 262 to 159.Mr. Trump has indicated he will sign the bill, which was championed by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, until his death in July. It would allow the president to levy tariffs of as much as 100 percent on countries buying the most Russian oil or gas and would impose sanctions on Russian officials, businesspeople and financial institutions. Senator Darline Graham, Mr. Graham\u2019s sister who replaced him in his seat, said it would \u201cincrease the president\u2019s negotiating leverage.\u201dSign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.But insofar as the Trump administration is pursuing a carrot-and-stick approach with Mr. Putin, carrots seem the focus. The U.S. official said that the administration wanted to create more incentives for members of the Russian elite to push for peace. Executing some business deals before the end of the war could help convince anti-American hawks around Mr. Putin that Mr. Trump really does want to create a new relationship with Russia, the official added.Balazs Jarabik, a former European Union diplomat in Kyiv who now works at R. Politik, a political analysis firm, said signs pointed to the United States \u201cconsidering bigger concessions toward Russia.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWashington \u201cis now signaling that some deals could move forward if Moscow first demonstrates concrete restraint,\u201d said Mr. Jarabik, who has been tracking the talks closely. \u201cWashington had previously resisted signing such agreements before a cease-fire.\u201dImageRussia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and shaking hands with President Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Moscow earlier this month.Credit...Sputnik, via Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesIt was not clear what deals in particular are on the table. The Kremlin\u2019s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said after Mr. Putin\u2019s meeting with Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner on Sept. 5 that \u201ceconomic issues and potential major mutually beneficial Russian-American projects were discussed in some detail.\u201dThe Kremlin has been promoting business opportunities to the White House ever since Mr. Trump returned to office last year. Russian officials have floated deals for rare earths and aluminum, joint ventures in the Arctic and even getting U.S. companies involved in selling Russian natural gas to Europe.Mr. Trump has hailed Russia\u2019s economic potential as \u201ctremendous,\u201d but he has previously held out business deals as a reward for a Russia that makes peace.\u201cThey want to do business,\u201d Mr. Trump said ahead of his Alaska summit with Mr. Putin last year. \u201cBut they\u2019re not doing business until we get the war settled.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe quiet shift appears to reflect the administration\u2019s pursuit of new ideas to end the war after talks surrounding a possible Ukrainian withdrawal from the rest of the Donbas region ran aground. Earlier this year, Ukrainian officials proposed calling that area \u201cDonnyland\u201d in an effort to appeal to Mr. Trump to push back harder against Russia\u2019s territorial demands.Mr. Kushner referred to the impasse in an appearance by video link at a gathering of international supporters of Ukraine in Kyiv last weekend, the YES Annual Meeting.\u201cPresident Putin\u2019s laid out his line of what he wants to achieve,\u201d Mr. Kushner said. \u201cIf Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.\u201dMr. Kushner went on that the Trump administration\u2019s job \u201cas the mediators\u201d was to \u201ccome up with a creative solution\u201d that \u201callows both parties to move forward.\u201d He said Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine were very committed to the talks, and \u201cwhat we heard is President Putin\u2019s very committed to this as well.\u201dAt that point, part of the audience in Kyiv burst out in laughter, a sign of the deep skepticism among Ukraine\u2019s allies of the administration\u2019s evenhanded portrayal of the talks. Two days later, a jet-powered Russian drone struck a train at a border crossing through which dignitaries, including David Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, were traveling.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe negotiations to end Russia\u2019s war, which has now lasted more than four and a half years and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, largely ground to a halt earlier this year as Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner focused on the war with Iran.This month\u2019s trip to Moscow and then to Kyiv by Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner appeared to be an effort to restart the negotiations. Ukrainian officials said that trilateral peace talks between the United States, Ukraine and Russia could resume in October. The possibility of a limited cease-fire \u2014 ending strikes on shipping in the Black Sea or on energy infrastructure \u2014 is expected to be discussed in those talks.Robert Jimison contributed reporting from Washington.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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