Trump Strikes Russian Diesel Deal With Putin, Pushes to End Ukraine War

Breaking · Washington · Oct. 10, 2026

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President Trump said Friday, Oct. 9, that after a phone call with Vladimir Putin, Russia agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the American and global market, then 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons after that, with another 3 million tons to follow depending on the condition of Russia’s refineries (AP via PBS, BBC). The Treasury issued a temporary license allowing Russian diesel onto the market; CNBC reports the waiver runs through April 2027 (Kyiv Independent, CNBC).

Trump says the deal will bring diesel prices down “IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!” and thanked Putin, while calling the U.S. Ukraine’s “strong partner” (Kyiv Independent). The Kremlin said the two leaders gave “significant attention to the prospects of resolving the Ukrainian crisis,” and AP reports the announcement came as envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian officials in Miami on a proposal to end the war. Trump has long said of the conflict, “we want to get it ended.”

It hasn't been a particularly good week for George Soros … on three different fronts. https://t.co/30jdtliRbg
— Susan Kokinda (@sjkokinda) October 10, 2026

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Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action, who flagged the story on X, argues in her Oct. 10 Saturday Wrap-Up that it was a bad week for George Soros “on three different fronts”: the diesel deal, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and Rubio’s Athens speech on Western civilization, which she sets against the ideas of Soros’s mentor Karl Popper.

Critics pushed back hard. Zelensky called the deal a gift to Putin and “an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged” (BBC). Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren called it “a total betrayal of Ukraine” (Kyiv Independent), and CNBC reports critics say it cuts against the Russia sanctions law Trump signed three weeks earlier (CNBC). The Kremlin says Ukraine’s drone strikes during Russia’s election set back an immediate return to three-way peace talks (Moscow Times).

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Known (multiple outlets): Trump announced the diesel volumes on Truth Social after his Oct. 9 call with Putin; the Treasury issued a temporary general license allowing Russian diesel onto the global market; Putin said Russia is ready to supply oil and oil products to the U.S. and world markets but did not give amounts (BBC). Zelensky, Democratic senators and some Republicans criticized the move. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 (Moscow Times).

Claimed / disputed: Trump says diesel prices will now fall fast; analysts quoted by the BBC question whether Russia can deliver those amounts and how much it would ease U.S. prices. Kokinda’s view that the diesel deal and the ICC sanctions are blows to a Soros-built “globalist apparatus” is her analysis.

Who started the war — a political argument: Trump calls it “Joe Biden’s war” and says it would never have happened had he been president (Aug. 18, 2025 remarks). Many Trump supporters go further and trace the war’s roots to Obama-era policy — including Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Joe Biden’s role as vice president on Ukraine — and to the 2014 Maidan uprising, often citing a leaked call in which then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland discussed who should be in Ukraine’s next government (BBC transcript, 2014). That is an argument, not an established fact: the call does not show the U.S. caused the protests, and Russia’s government made the decision to invade in 2022.

Trump Strikes Russian Diesel Deal With Putin, Pushes to End Ukraine War

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