On Monday - in his flurry of interviews and news conferences about the war - Donald Trump said the US was considering easing some oil sanctions to combat rising prices.

Trump told reporters on Monday: "We have sanctions on some countries. We're going to take those sanctions off till this straightens out."

"Then, who knows? Maybe we won’t have to put them on – there’ll be so much peace," he added.

Trump told reporters in the same news conference that he had had a "very good" call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump said he believes "wants to be helpful".

But Trump did not detail exactly which sanctions, or on which countries, he would look to lift - although the US has already temporarily eased sanctions to allow India to buy Russian oil stranded at sea.

(Source: BBC)