“I support it,” Trump told U.S. broadcaster Fox News in an interview published on Thursday. “I hope we don’t have to use it.”
“We’re working on a new package of sanctions,” Ms von der Leyen said, arriving at a meeting of European leaders in Tirana.
Mr Macron said he and Mr Starmer proposed a month-long ceasefire in the air, at sea, and in relation to energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
Leaders from Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark were expected to attend the meeting in Paris.
The Russian embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, chairing the SCO this year, congratulated Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, who was regarded as Europe’s last dictator.
A presidential official said South Korea would maintain strategic ambiguity regarding the types of weapons that could be supplied to Ukraine.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the debate in recent weeks about German support for Ukraine and the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles in particular.
The sanctions also target countries supplying “equipment to Russia and those responsible for the illegal deportation and military re-education of Ukrainian children.”
“The mobilisation has proven to be a terrible mistake,” they wrote, warning that no one is immune to another partial mobilisation in 2024.
