Russia’s first cargo is 40,000 metric tons – or less than 2 hours of diesel fuel consumed in the US – and 13 percent of Trump’s controversial deal. Putin revised an earlier announcement that it would sail on Oct. 22.
It’s the one where Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed a ceasefire on each other’s energy infrastructure. A ceasefire that Russia and Ukraine both immediately denied existed or was in effect. When a reporter asked Trump about the energy-infrastructure ceasefire and where/how it had been negotiated, he literally said something to the effect of, “It exists because I said it exists, I just declared it.”
Part of the deal is Ukraine stopping attacks on Russian oil targets. So obviously Trump hasn’t done his part of the deal, but when does he?
What is this elusive deal that sees Ukraine stopping its attacks on oil infrastructure that you are talking about?
It’s the one where Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine had agreed a ceasefire on each other’s energy infrastructure. A ceasefire that Russia and Ukraine both immediately denied existed or was in effect. When a reporter asked Trump about the energy-infrastructure ceasefire and where/how it had been negotiated, he literally said something to the effect of, “It exists because I said it exists, I just declared it.”
Yes, but that “cease fire” was not part of the energy deal Trump made with Putin. So tying the two together is inaccurate.