Trump: Ukraine and Russia will stop targeting energy infrastructure

Published September 14, 2026 12:29pm ET




President Donald Trump announced that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to an energy target detente after criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for increasing diesel prices with his drone strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday. “Russia has agreed to do, likewise! The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.”

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