Europeans aim to coordinate first sanctions against Russia with Trump administration

With Moscow continuing to pound Ukrainian cities more than three weeks after Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Alaska, European leaders hope the U.S. president is finally ready to follow through on repeated threats to act. On Sunday, after the war's biggest air attack so far set fire to government buildings in Kyiv, Trump said he was ready to move to a second phase of restrictions, the closest he has come yet to announcing new sanctions. Trump, who took office in January promising a swift end to the war, has repeatedly set deadlines for Moscow to agree a ceasefire or face tougher sanctions, only to back off before new measures were imposed.