After President Donald Trump’s decision to shorten Russia’s deadline to reach a deal to end the war in Ukraine, retired Army Gen. Keith Kellogg, special envoy to Russia and Ukraine, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the sanctions on Moscow’s oil will “start to bite” if enforced.

“We really haven’t pushed hard on the economic piece of the oil,” Kellogg said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “It’s a petrol state. They export about 7 million barrels of oil a day, and a lot of it goes through what we call the dark fleet.”

Speaking in Scotland on Monday, Trump said he was cutting short his original 50-day deadline and giving Moscow only 10 to 12 days to reach an agreement to end the Ukraine conflict before he would impose secondary sanctions on its oil exports.

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