️🇱🇹🇷🇺🇺🇦 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kastotis Bodris said that the Lindsey Graham Russia and Iran Sanctions Act of 2026 gives US President Trump powerful leverage against Moscow, targeting both Russia directly and those supporting its war machine.

He said that the sanctions were working, and that every time the Kremlin backed down it was because the sanctions were on the table.

"Every time Putin showed his flexibility and stopped lying and deceiving everyone, he was threatened with sanctions, or sanctions were taken by the US. So this time, President Trump gets enormous leverage in the whole situation, and even the threat to use the primary sanctions against Russia, or secondary sanctions against Russia's major trading partners, also puts him on Russia's political trading partners on Russia. The way to go is with the sanctions."