Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 10, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Trump prioritizes ending the Ukraine war over Russian LNG sanctions, focusing on peace and prosperity, says US Energy Secretary.
MILAN (Reuters) -U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said President Donald Trump's priority is to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to an end, without larger disruptions, when asked how the U.S. would react to Chinese purchases of sanctioned Russian LNG cargoes.
"President Trump's single greatest goal is prosperity in America and peace abroad," Wright said in a press conference at the Gastech conference in Milan. "He's looking at every possible avenue to get that war to end without overly large disruption".
Arctic LNG 2 was set to become one of Russia's largest LNG plants, with eventual output of 19.8 million metric tons per year. The project is 60%-owned by Russia's Novatek. But it had been included in Western sanctions over Moscow's war in Ukraine, and has struggled to sell LNG from the project despite beginning production and loading cargoes in August 2024.
Three cargoes from the project have discharged in China so far this year.
(Reporting by Marwa Rashad, Francesca Landini and Emily Chow in Milan; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Louise Heavens)
President Trump's single greatest goal is prosperity in America and peace abroad, as stated by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
Arctic LNG 2 is set to become one of Russia's largest LNG plants, with an eventual output of 19.8 million metric tons per year, and is 60%-owned by Russia's Novatek.
So far this year, three cargoes from the Arctic LNG 2 project have discharged in China.
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