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Trump Urges Zelenskyy To Halt Strikes On Russian Diesel After Putin Call
Trump urged Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel/refineries. He said attacks cause a diesel shortage in Russia.
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Diesel Strikes and Drones
Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying, "Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," as the White House-linked conversation followed Trump’s recent call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
“"Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia"”
The ABC7 Los Angeles report said Ukraine’s long-range strikes have targeted Russia’s oil and gas industry for months, which Kyiv says both funds and directly fuels Moscow’s more than four-year-old invasion.
In the same reporting cycle, Russia and Ukraine exchanged large-scale drone strikes overnight, with Russian forces shot down 389 Ukrainian drones during the night, according to Russia’s defense ministry, while Ukraine’s air force said it shot down or suppressed 409 Russian drones of various types overnight.
ABC7 Los Angeles also reported two people were killed and 14 more injured near an oil and industrial hub in Russia’s Tatarstan, and Ukrainian authorities reported Russian drones pummelling the Black Sea port of Odesa and starting a fire near a border crossing with Poland.
Al Jazeera said Russia launched 863 drones at Ukraine over the last 24 hours, while also reporting that in Odesa at least nine people were injured in a Russian night-time attack, according to Serhiy Lysak, who heads the city’s military administration.
Border Attacks Near Poland
Russia’s drone attacks near the Ukraine-Poland border included a strike that hit a gas station and trucks in Yahodyn, with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha writing, "This is Putin’s terror 'knocking' directly on the doors of the EU and NATO," on X.
CNN reported the border crossing was briefly shut but operating normally again by 10 a.m. local time Sunday, after debris set fire to the gas station building and several trucks parked nearby.
Separately, Ukrainian Railways said a Russian drone struck a passenger train’s locomotive in Volyn, about two kilometers from the border with Poland, and Zelenskyy said the attack had "deliberately burned" the locomotive and damaged a gas station in a drone strike.
DW reported the monitoring team gave the train crew advanced warning, and Ukrzaliznytsia said, "thanks to that, no one was injured," while also noting the train was carrying 206 people with no Polish citizens among the passengers.
Al Jazeera added that the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing point had briefly stopped working after the attack on a truck about 0.8km from Poland, but the crossing had since resumed operations, according to Polish border guards told Reuters.
Talks in October and Wider Fallout
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow is open to restarting peace talks in autumn featuring Russia, Ukraine and the U.S., with Al Jazeera reporting that Peskov told Russian media, "We do not rule out such a possibility; we are talking about the foreseeable future," as negotiations were discussed for October.
“"We do not rule out such a possibility; we are talking about the foreseeable future"”
ABC7 Los Angeles also said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters peace talks could restart in October, and it quoted the statement beginning, "We are not ruling out that possibility. We are specifically talking about the foreseeable future. That is, October".
Beyond diplomacy, the same reporting described Russia’s air campaign targeting Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter, with Moscow’s attacks aimed at demoralizing civilians and civilians killed and injured overnight into Sunday as Russia and Ukraine exchanged large-scale drone strikes.
In the border area, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha framed the attacks as a direct threat to Europe, writing on X that "This is Putin’s terror 'knocking' directly on the doors of the EU and NATO," while Polish officials said the coming weeks and months could bring intensified actions.
The ABC7 Los Angeles report said the Ukrainian drone campaign caused fuel rationing across Russia, and it also reported that Russia’s attacks targeted Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter, as Ukraine’s strikes continued to hit Russia’s oil and gas industry.