President Donald Trump announced Friday that Russia will supply diesel to U.S. and global markets, saying sanctions on Russian fuel exports have been temporarily lifted as prices surge amid overlapping conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. The president disclosed the arrangement in a post on Truth Social following what he described as a 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the president’s account, Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel, another 500,000 tons in November, and one million tons thereafter [1].
The decision marks a sharp reversal in posture for an administration that had signed a sanctions bill targeting buyers of Russian energy weeks earlier. The sanctions relief is temporary, officials said, and applies specifically to fuel exports rather than the broader sanctions architecture imposed after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The Trump administration moved Friday to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian diesel as President Donald Trump said Moscow had agreed to release large quantities of the fuel and suggested the U.S. might buy it [2].
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