Trump Tells Zelenskyy to Halt Russian Diesel Strikes — SkimNews
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- Trump told Zelenskyy to stop targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, saying "he's causing a shortage of diesel fuel" and adding "there are plenty of other targets"; the remarks came Sunday at his Doonbeg club during the Irish Open.
- Ukraine struck a major oil refinery in Sloviansk-on-Kuban in Russia's Krasnodar region overnight, with drones hitting a key processing unit and tank farm and triggering a large fire visible from several dozen kilometres away, per Ukraine's Defence Intelligence Directorate.
- Krasnodar authorities confirmed a strike on an "enterprise" in Sloviansk-on-Kuban injured three, damaged an oil pipeline and started a fire, though they did not directly address Ukraine's refinery claim.
- Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces shot down 389 Ukrainian drones overnight, including over Tatarstan, other Russian regions and Russian-occupied Crimea.
- Russia continued retaliatory strikes, with at least nine people injured in a "massive" overnight attack on Odesa; a separate Saturday drone strike on an Odesa residential high-rise killed two and injured 26, completely destroying the upper floors.
- A Russian drone struck near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing with Poland, setting fire to a petrol station; another struck the locomotive of a passenger train in the Volyn region roughly 2 km from the Polish border, prompting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha to warn that "Putin's terror" was "knocking directly on the doors of the EU and NATO."
Why it matters: Trump is publicly carving out a protected target category — Russian diesel — while leaving other infrastructure strikes on the table, a stance that clashes with Ukraine's argument that oil and gas revenues finance Moscow's war effort and that risks being read by Kyiv as political limits on its deep-strike campaign at the same moment Russian drones are reaching within kilometres of NATO territory.
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