President Donald Trump said the fuel from Moscow’s refineries was meant to stabilise the global market, which has been hit by high prices. Facing criticism over the diesel deal with Russia, U.S.
Because the world market suffered with high prices, “That’s a diesel deal that’s going to be released into the world for the world market,.
Trump said. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators wrote to Trump, terming the Russia deal a “gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our allies”. “The deal you struck with President Vladimir Putin on October 9 will not achieve just ends, nor will it benefit Americans,” the senators said. “This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our allies; it should be rescinded,” the letter said. The deal “only provides Putin with more fuel to finance his war machine and enables Russia to continue its brutal attacks on Ukrainian civilians,” they said.
That’s being released into the world. That’s not being released to us,” Mr. Republicans and Democrats hit out at the deal, which Trump announced three weeks after the US Congress authorised him to impose sweeping sanctions on Russia and slapped tariffs on its key trading partners, including China and India.
“That’s a diesel deal. Not for us. And when you knock out diesel refineries, that’s not a great thing. But they are not releasing it to us. They are releasing it to the entire world,” Mr.
Trump told reporters here on Tuesday, amid a growing chorus against the surprise deal he announced last week after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
