Trump Defends Diesel Deal with Russia

“President Donald Trump said he cut a diesel export deal with Russia and delayed imposing further sanctions because he doesn’t want to drive Vladimir Putin away from peace talks with Ukraine,” Bloomberg reports.

“At the same time, Trump also accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of prolonging the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fifth year, because of the military aid he has gotten from European allies.”

Said Trump: “I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table. Great progress is being made.”