South Africa urged G20 countries to show global and cooperative leadership to tackle challenges including rising trade barriers, as the club's finance chiefs met on Thursday under the shadow of President Donald Trump's tariff threats.

US President Donald Trump is trying again to end the war in Ukraine – not by targeting Russia, but by hitting the countries that buy Russia’s oil.

Russia has responded to President Trump’s new hardline Ukraine strategy with a mix of public dismissal and covert military escalation. -While former president Dmitry Medvedev mocked the US threat of secondary tariffs as a “theatrical ultimatum,

The president also threatened new measures to increase economic pressure on Russia as he grows more frustrated with Putin.

Trump asked Ukraine's Zelensky earlier this month if he could strike Moscow and other Russian targets, the Financial Times reported.