The meeting between US President trump and Russian President Putin took place last week. During this meeting, Putin had to pay Rs.. 2.2 crore in cash in indian currency to refuel his jets. Why did the leader of one of the most important countries in the world pay in cash? Let's see the background to this. The U.S. is taking serious steps to end the conflict between ukraine and Russia. As part of that, the Trump-Putin meeting took place on august 15. Many important issues were discussed in this meeting held in Alaska. Now, some additional information has been released about this meeting. That is, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was in the US, had to pay about $ 2,50,000 (about Rs 2.2 crore in indian currency) in cash to refuel his three jets, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Jets cannot carry much fuel. Therefore, generally, when they go to a country, they refuel there. When refueling like this, they send money online. Then the question arises, why did russia pay in cash?
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The united states has imposed a number of economic sanctions on russia, which is why Putin's team had to pay cash directly to refuel the jets, Rubio explained. Rubio added, "When the Russian leaders came to Alaska, they had to refuel. russia cannot use our system because of the sanctions. So they had to pay for the refueling of the planes. Every economic sanction imposed since Putin came to office is still in effect. The impact of those sanctions is also ongoing. They are experiencing the consequences of these economic sanctions every day. Even though these sanctions have not changed the course of the war, this does not mean that the sanctions are irrelevant," he said.Putin's team stayed in Alaska for about five hours, and after a joint press conference between trump and Putin, the team left. Although trump confirmed that "no deal was reached" in this meeting, a proposal from russia is still under consideration. Reports also indicate that trump encouraged ukraine to accept this deal. Reporters questioned why additional economic sanctions were not imposed on russia when Putin did not agree to a ceasefire even after the Alaska talks. US Secretary of State Rubio said that he did not believe that new sanctions would persuade Putin to do so.
Noting that russia is already under severe sanctions, he noted that if economic sanctions are imposed, the effects will not be immediate and will take months or even years to be felt.
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