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Posted on August 27, 2025
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A Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 62% of Americans favor sanctions on Russia's trade allies to pressure Moscow over Ukraine. Trump has already targeted India with tariffs.
By Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Most Americans support a bid to sanction Russia's trading partners as a way to put pressure on Moscow to end its war with Ukraine, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The three-day poll, which concluded on Sunday, showed 62% of respondents back sanctioning Russia's trading partners, a strategy that U.S. President Donald Trump has partially embraced and has threatened to expand to include China.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe's biggest conflict since World War II. More than 1 million people have been killed or wounded on both sides, including thousands of mostly Ukrainian civilians, according to analysts.
Trump has in recent weeks engaged in intense diplomacy, meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska but so far failing to stop the conflict, a goal he had pledged to accomplish on his first day in office.
Trump, who has reportedly said he would like to win a Nobel Peace Prize, already has imposed secondary sanctions, in the form of a 25% tariff, against India for continuing to buy Russian oil – the Kremlin’s main source of financing for its war on Ukraine, in his effort to end the fighting.
The U.S. president has threatened to impose steep levies on China, the largest purchaser of Russian oil, Turkey, the UAE and other countries that trade with Russia, to intensify pressure on Moscow to agree to a ceasefire.
Some 76% of Trump's Republicans in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said they support sanctions on Russian trade partners as a way to stop the war, as did a modest majority - 58% - of Democrats.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll gathered responses from 1,022 U.S. adults nationwide and had a 3 percentage point margin of error for all respondents. Its margin of error for Republicans and Democrats was 6 points.
(Reporting by Jason Lange in Washington; Additional reporting by Jonathan Landay; editing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)
According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 62% of Americans support sanctioning Russia's trading partners.
The poll indicates that 76% of Trump's Republicans support sanctions on Russian trade partners.
President Trump has imposed secondary sanctions, including a 25% tariff on India for buying Russian oil, and has threatened to impose steep levies on other countries trading with Russia.
The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points for all respondents and 6 percentage points for Republicans and Democrats.
The discussions around sanctions were triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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