TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump on September 13 asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop strikes on Russian diesel fuel facilities, saying the attacks are causing a diesel shortage in Russia. “Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop destroying Russia’s diesel fuel facilities,” Trump said when taking questions, adding that the strikes are causing damage and hurting the whole world.
Trump Asks Ukraine to Stop Strikes on Russian Diesel Facilities
Trump's request reframes Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure as a global economic concern rather than a purely battlefield matter, which could complicate Western backing for those operations. It matters for Kyiv, which uses such strikes to pressure Russian fuel supply, and for oil markets, where diesel availability is already a sensitive variable. Whether Ukraine adjusts its targeting, and how that affects refined-product flows, is the open question worth watching.
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