The Trump administration is ready to tighten the restrictions to reach a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict, Secretary Scott Bessent has said Washington is prepared to tighten the “egregiously weak” sanctions imposed on Russia by the administration of former US President Joe Biden if it helps accelerate a peace agreement in the Ukraine conflict, the US Treasury Department has said. The US sanctions on Russia, which were first imposed in 2014 after Crimea’s reunification with Moscow, have since