Trump om ukrainske oljeangrep: – Bør stoppe

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that it was time for Ukraine to have a new president, according to the Associated Press. Trump claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has not done enough to end the war with Russia. The American leader also stated that there would never have been a war in Ukraine if he had been in office in 2022.

Trump recalled that the war in Ukraine began due to incompetence, and reiterated his demand that Ukraine halt attacks on Russian oil refineries. On Friday, Trump announced an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, by which Russia would deliver millions of barrels of diesel to the world market. Diesel prices in the U.S. are unusually high, and the country is facing an election on November 3.

Russia banned diesel exports in July. Several Russian refineries have been damaged in recent weeks after Ukrainian drone strikes. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the world was short of about 1.6 million barrels of diesel and marine gasoline per day in August due to challenges in the Middle East and Russia. Trump claimed he had agreed to supply 300,000 tons of diesel now and 500,000 tons in November, and up to four million tons at various times later on.

Russia expressed gratitude on X for the suspension of sanctions on diesel exports, which included five glide bombers flying over residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia.