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Trump Calls for Replacing Zelenskyy After Putin Diesel Deal, Ukraine Attacks Rostov Terminal
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Trump announced Russia would immediately supply 300,000 tons of diesel to U.S. and world market. Ukrainian forces attacked Rostov-on-Don oil terminal hours after the Trump-Putin diesel deal.
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Diesel deal sparks attacks
Ukraine attacked a Rostov, Russia oil terminal after the agreement between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to supply “immediately” more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global market.
“‘The toll of airstrikes in Zaporiyia has risen to eight dead.”
The attack came hours after the United States and Russia announced the supply of 300,000 tons of diesel to the market, and Russian attacks on the city of Zaporiyia in southern Ukraine killed at least eight people including three children, according to regional authorities and police.
Iván Fedorov, co-chair of the regional Defense Council, said, “The toll of airstrikes in Zaporiyia has risen to eight dead. Among them are three children,” and he added that the attack caused 16 injuries and left 12 missing.
The previous toll provided by authorities was seven dead in Zaporiyia, and the police said Russia targeted the city’s residential districts with five bombs, with two hitting residential buildings.
The conflict initiated by the Russian invasion of February 2022 continued into its fifth year, while Kyiv intensified its reprisals against targets on Russian soil and diplomatic efforts under U.S. mediation yielded no tangible result.
Trump targets Zelenskyy
Donald Trump said Ukraine should replace Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a new leader, lashing out at him for Kyiv’s strikes on Russian oil refineries that Trump said contributed to high diesel prices ahead of the US midterm elections. Trump told reporters at the White House, “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” adding that “for some reason [Zelenskyy] never does.” Andriy Sybiga defended Zelenskyy by saying, “He has the support of the Ukrainian people, and they have the right to decide,” and he added that statements from abroad confirm Zelensky is doing his job well.
Kaja Kallas warned that suspending sanctions “provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war,” and she said, “This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t.” The BBC reported that Zelensky called Trump’s diesel deal “a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin that amounts to "an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged".”
What comes next
Trump’s diesel deal with Russia included an immediate release of 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the “American and global marketplace,” followed by 500,000 tonnes in November and another million after that, with a further three million tonnes “within a short period” dependent on refineries attacked by Ukraine. The BBC said the US Treasury was suspending sanctions on Russian diesel exports until 7 April as part of the deal, while other assets like those in American banks were still frozen. Zelensky said Russia would repay the diesel with “further terror,” and he wrote, “We count on America's fair support for our defence of life, for our defence of people in Ukraine – and on the United States having a correspondingly strong conversation with Russia.”
The BBC reported that Putin later said Russia was willing to supply oil and petroleum products to the US market and global markets, and it said an envoy for Putin, Kirill Dmitriev, welcomed the deal by writing, “Russia-US co-operation on diesel and energy will benefit the world.” The BBC also said European foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas expected European foreign ministers to approve “the biggest set of sanctions on Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion on Monday.”