Christopher Miller
The Trump administration has made several demands to Kyiv to stop various strikes and yet very few such demands of Moscow (while they press Ukraine to give up the Donbas to appease Putin while not pushing Putin to make concessions). Trump today said, “We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it — don’t hit diesel fuel.” This follows our @FT scoop last month when JD Vance told Zelenskyy to halt strikes over alarm that Ukraine was further destabilising oil markets and harming US companies by targeting tankers carrying crude piped from Kazakhstan to a Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal in the Russian port of Novorossiysk. https://www.ft.com/content/725b4d15-bd8d-4083-a04e-db016338af2e?shareType=non
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@POTUS: "Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing — he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel... There are plenty of other targets. Don't hit diesel fuel."