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Ukraine will not set Russian oil refineries on fire as long as Russia does not destroy our energy industry. Referring to the recent Russian attacks on his country, Zelensky added that Russia thanked for the planned diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. #KremlDeal #Trump #Selenskyj (translated)

"Russia thanks for the lifting of sanctions against diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia." Russian has dropped five glide bombs on residential houses in Zaporizhzhia, wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday on social media. #UkraineKrieg #Saporischschja #RussischeAngriffe (translated)

"Russia thanks for the lifting of sanctions against diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia." The night once again showed that Russia interprets diminished pressure as a signal to continue waging war and dropping bombs on cities, wrote Zelensky. #Russland #Ukraine #Kriegsverbrechen (translated)

BrennpunktUA reported, citing Axios, that the USA had threatened Ukraine with a restriction on access to intelligence information if attacks on Russian oil refineries continued. The threat was made during talks between Wittkoff and Kushner with a Ukrainian delegation in Miami. After the "Trump-Putin Diesel Deal" became known, the Ukrainian side had aborted the talks. According to a source cited by BrennpunktUA, the USA had urged the Ukrainian leadership at least six times to stop attacks on Russia's oil infrastructure. The Trump administration believed that these attacks had triggered an energy crisis in Russia and forced the country to halt its diesel exports, which caused prices to rise in the USA. #Ukraine #USA #Russland (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that Donald Trump promised hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel after a phone call with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury then allowed an exemption from the sanctions. Given the midterms in four weeks and a diesel price at record levels, Laska interpreted the move as a possible campaign maneuver. In mid-September, Trump publicly called on Volodymyr Zelensky to stop attacks on Russian refineries. According to a Reuters report led by Laska, at that time three of the six largest Russian diesel refineries were shut down or operating at limited capacity. She also pointed to a Russian export ban on diesel until the end of October and noted that Russia imported almost seven times as much diesel from Belarus from January to July as in the same period of the previous year. Deputy Prime Minister Novak is now talking about surpluses, she wrote; however, it is unclear whether the announced delivery quantities and deadlines will actually be met. Zelensky offered to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries if Russia ends its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Laska referred to this as a symmetrical de-escalation offer that is on the table for the Americans. She also cited rocket attacks on a residential building in Pryluky, glide bombs on city buses in Kramatorsk, and shelling of the energy supply in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa. She warned that Russia would respond to the diesel with terrorism. The EU also criticized Laska: On September 22, Usmanov and Fridman were removed from the sanctions list under pressure from France, Slovakia, and Luxembourg. According to Laska, Zelensky pointed out that the attacks had since increased. At the same time, the EU extended the remaining personal sanctions from six months to three years. Latvia had long resisted the compromise and ultimately paved the way for it by abstaining. Laska compared Trump's diesel concession to Russia with the European compromise in favor of unanimity. In her view, the costs of such agreements are borne not by their authors but by the people in Pryluky, Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Oleshkiv. #Trump #Putin #Dieselpreise (translated)