{"id":41476,"date":"2026-02-24T21:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41476"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:43:49","slug":"washington-warns-ukraine-over-striking-us-economic-interests-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41476","title":{"rendered":"Washington warns Ukraine over striking US economic interests in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=281c145c-30da-4df9-97bf-efafc9b6bf6b&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The Trump administration has formally warned Ukraine not to strike targets within Russia that could hit US economic interests, according to Kyiv\u2019s ambassador to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Olha Stefanishyna said on Tuesday that she received a d\u00e9marche, a diplomatic message intended to register disapproval or complaint, in the wake of Ukraine\u2019s drone strike on the Russian port of Novorossiysk in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have heard from the Department of State that we should refrain from attacking American interests,\u201d said Stefanishyna, speaking at a press conference to mark the fourth anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/war-in-ukraine\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s attack on the strategically located Black Sea port damaged two tankers that form part of Moscow\u2019s so-called shadow fleet, which it has used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4310f010-2b3c-493e-ba0a-26dc6d156b2e\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">circumvent sanctions<\/a> on its energy sector. <\/p>\n<p>Yet the strikes also damaged a terminal belonging to Kazakhstan\u2019s Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which is part owned by Chevron and Exxon. <\/p>\n<p>The port of Novorossiysk is one of Russia\u2019s largest oil export hubs and a strategic outlet for crude shipments from Kazakhstan\u2019s oilfields.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv has neither confirmed nor denied the attacks on the CPC. Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry declined to comment. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that striking Russian energy facilities and ports that fund the Kremlin\u2019s war machine are Kyiv\u2019s form of \u201csanctions\u201d, which he believes will bring Moscow to the negotiating table more quickly. <\/p>\n<p>The State Department did not respond to a request for comment about Stefanishyna\u2019s remarks. <\/p>\n<p>The US response to the fourth anniversary of the war has been muted.<br \/>The Trump administration did not send a senior US official or delegation to Kyiv to mark Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to a complete list of visiting dignitaries shared with the FT by the Ukrainian presidential administration.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanishyna said that Ukraine does not feel abandoned by the US. She said that she had been invited to attend Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, during which she expected the US president to speak about ending Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>However, earlier on Tuesday at the UN the US joined 50 other countries in abstaining from a vote on a Kyiv-initiated resolution to support lasting peace in Ukraine. It passed with 107 votes in favour. <\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s shift from offering unequivocal political and diplomatic support, as well as direct military assistance, to a more neutral and even Russia-friendly position has irked Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have privately expressed frustration over the Trump administration\u2019s relative silence about Russian attacks on US businesses in Ukraine. A Russian strike in June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c3207934-930b-4769-940c-3e098338a0a8\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">badly damaged a Boeing facility<\/a> in Kyiv. <\/p>\n<p>The American Chamber of Commerce in Kyiv <a href=\"https:\/\/chamber.ua\/news\/ninety-percent-of-amcham-ukraine-members-remain-fully-operational-after-4-years-of-russia-s-full-scale-war-despite-massive-challenges-latest-survey-results-by-the-american-chamber-of-commerce-in-ukrai\/\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">reported<\/a> in January that 47 per cent of US companies in Ukraine had been damaged by Russian strikes during the war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in August that he was \u201cnot happy\u201d about a Russian attack on the plant of American electronics company Flex in western Ukraine. But he has been largely silent on the matter since, despite escalating Russian attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has been intentionally striking US businesses in Ukraine,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister Andriy Sybiha said last week. \u201cWhile the Kremlin has been proposing a \u2018reset\u2019 in economic relations with the United States\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009they simultaneously attacked the Flex Electronics, Boeing and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sybiha said the attacks \u201cdemonstrate that the Kremlin\u2019s seemingly lucrative proposals of economic co-operation are, in fact, nothing more than a \u2018Potemkin village\u2019 meant to buy time while dismantling American influence in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"1831225f-0db6-4ecc-8409-f520f74e4129\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1831225f-0db6-4ecc-8409-f520f74e4129\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2159\/1214\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Saturday, a Russian missile <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andrii_sybiha\/status\/2025319195479572686\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\">hit<\/a> a production facility operated by Mondelez, one of the first big US investors to enter the eastern European nation after its independence. <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy told the FT in an interview on Monday that Trump\u2019s apparent strategy of pressuring \u201cboth sides\u201d and positioning itself \u201cin the middle\u201d to broker a settlement was deeply frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Several rounds of peace negotiations including three rounds of trilateral talks between American, Ukrainian and Russian officials have so far failed to break the impasse that has prevented an end to Europe\u2019s deadliest war since 1945. Putin has maintained his maximalist position, demanding Ukraine hand over more territory, while Zelenskyy has insisted that no land can simply be surrendered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/281c145c-30da-4df9-97bf-efafc9b6bf6b\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}