Trump says US to get diesel from Russia in stunning bid to ease prices

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Donald Trump says the United States will obtain diesel from Russia following a phone call with Vladimir Putin, presenting the arrangement as a way to ease high fuel prices before U.S. midterm elections. The reported deal marks a reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of US pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections. Trump said on social media on Friday that he struck the deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call in which he was expected to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, Trump announced that Russia will immediately supply more...