On October 11, Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Neither side had been consulted. Neither side knew what it meant.
President Zelenskyy said he learned about the initiative from the internet, adding that he would support it if both parties assumed mutual obligations. Moscow offered no official confirmation. Members of the Russian State Duma stated they had no knowledge of any White House peace initiative or ceasefire arrangement. Europe declined to endorse the proposal, prompting U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to accuse European governments of hypocrisy — noting that since the start of the war, Europe has paid Russia more for energy than it has provided Ukraine in military aid, while simultaneously opposing American arrangements to import Russian diesel.
Nearly 24 hours passed before the details began to emerge through leaks to major international outlets. According to Axios, the “energy ceasefire” announced by Trump referred specifically to a mutual agreement to halt strikes on oil refineries. The asymmetry of that arrangement is stark. Ukraine has no functioning refineries left to protect. Its economy runs entirely on hydrocarbon imports from Europe. What Trump framed as a bilateral ceasefire is, in practical terms, a directive to Kyiv to stop hitting Russian refining infrastructure.
The reason for that directive is not difficult to identify. The United States is facing severe fuel price increases, and Washington has quietly reached an arrangement to import Russian diesel. Monitoring resources indicate that as early as September 22, a tanker carrying Russian diesel — the Minerva Zen, sailing under a Greek flag — departed oil terminals in northern Russia bound for a port on the U.S. East Coast. The vessel is expected to arrive, reportedly in South Carolina, on October 12. The ceasefire announcement came nineteen days later.
For Ukraine, the terms of this arrangement are unambiguous. Every strike on a Russian refinery now risks triggering a cutoff of U.S. intelligence sharing and weapons deliveries — a threat the American administration has already made explicit. Russia, meanwhile, faces no equivalent constraint. On the evening of October 11, Zelenskyy announced a Russian strike on Kharkiv’s Thermal Power Plant No. 5. He also reported that over the past week alone, Russian forces had conducted more than 200 strikes on Ukrainian electricity generation and transmission facilities, along with 17 strikes on gas and oil infrastructure.
Ukraine has been told to stop striking the refineries that power the Russian war machine — in exchange for a ceasefire that protects infrastructure Ukraine no longer has. Russia continues striking Ukrainian power plants at a rate of more than 30 per day. The math here is not complicated — and it does not favor the side fighting for its survival.
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i pay bill in gay bars when puritan filthy rob convinces hillbillies to derp incel jizz in our anuz
its time we make the jews pay the bill of their wrong doing to all of us. this is their war and they created fueled and benefited from it from both sides.
trumps deal with putin is a glitch in the matrix you see how fake this whole war is. trump even arranged himself a stake in nordstream when the war is over.
if the ukranian and russian people actually had a say in the matter rather then the jew frontmen zelensky and yarmukle putin there will be peace tomorrow
inferior species americunts require joos to govern them
the 11th. commandment that’s never been published. lol 😄
💩💩💩 = 🇮🇱 = 🇺🇸
yes 😂 they do the same as the germans, vote for a insane jew, with a burning desire to destroy things 😂 and they are, as the germans, so stupid, that they cant admit it, and cant do anything about it 😂 its only to hang them in the statue of liberty. shit out from europe, masters in genocide and trick movies.
tremendous simplification and simply a lies in some moments. you don’t understand a core of the problem, but trying to give advises of cosmic level and cosmic ignorance.
the uk stopped importing russian diesel and paid more to get it from the usa instead, now the usa is importing russian diesel and selling it to the witless uk govt!
bin like that with the eu since years. they buy from china or india.
and if you tell some of the people they just answer “but it’s not directly from russia”.
so it’s not even about the impact it’s just so they can say “we are not buying from russia”.
imagine their faces when all energy resources will come to asia and africa for their own consumption. now india or turkey is able to resell a part, but consumption is growing. when delivery chains will change direction for years, germany and rest of the eu will have natural gas for 750-1000 dollars, gasoline for 2,5 euro per lite and same increasing for electricity, because main fuel is gas (methane). “alternative for germany” wish to restore supplying, but do they deserve it?
by the way, russia’s domestic consumption of gas is also growing for ~1% a year, now gas pipes covers 75% of citizens. 1991 — 35%. + gas cylinders. now domestic market is the main one with level higher than all the eu combined. before 2020 they consumed 400 bln cubic meters, ~180 bought from russia. our consumption is about 550 bln m3, even more than china, though they are growing rapidly.
well, at least they manage to support fascism the sneaky way, by support russias killing of kidnapped, and saving rulers and mass murderers. the jews are everywhere 😂 baal worshipers, that is.
stingy one pay twice, fool — thrice. (russian saying)
zelensky. keeps getting richer& ukrainian conscriptss get the shaft.
soon even young ukraian women will also be sent to the eastern front to be cannon foddered, thus ukraine will be demographically barren, infertile unviable country.
i heard the clown & the kiev junta are now beginning to withhold the compensation to families of dead ukrainian soldiders
ukraine’s learning the hard way about being america’s friend
to be an enemy of anglo-saxons is dangerous, but more dangerous is to be their friend. (gen.yedrihin, beginning of 20th century)
inform mr putin about that 😂
also russia gets the bill, a bill of disgust. they actually support them which have start the war, supports neo-nazis, and have commit mass murder in donbass. i think russia have a fake jew in charge, which support faked jews committing genocide against the real jews. look really close at christianity 😂 today its a white power thing 😂 they should marsch on the red square, doing hitler salut.
i have no doubt russia in the end will defeat ukraine, maybe by extinct the slavs there, and in the end it will be only the jew zelensky left, in some bunker somewhere. remember, that not a single jew died in the concentration camps, only white people, ruled by insane, and a virtual world. it seems to be ongoing now also, by the refusal to address the root cause, and this baal-jew-christian fairy tale thing. mr putin support the root cause 😂
the mass murderer, and genocider adolf trump, with some crimes of aggression ongoing, “openly calls zelensky “a warmonger, enemy of peace”” 😂😂😂 completely mad, last stage of schizofreni, as adolf hitler rothschild, in his foaming period. the rat abandon his serfs. kill him ! aim at something bigger than his head, for example in the middle. or use shotgun, buckshots.
survival of the greediest 😂