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Regina Laska wrote that Donald Trump promised hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel after a phone call with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury then allowed an exemption from the sanctions. Given the midterms in four weeks and a diesel price at record levels, Laska interpreted the move as a possible campaign maneuver. In mid-September, Trump publicly called on Volodymyr Zelensky to stop attacks on Russian refineries. According to a Reuters report led by Laska, at that time three of the six largest Russian diesel refineries were shut down or operating at limited capacity. She also pointed to a Russian export ban on diesel until the end of October and noted that Russia imported almost seven times as much diesel from Belarus from January to July as in the same period of the previous year. Deputy Prime Minister Novak is now talking about surpluses, she wrote; however, it is unclear whether the announced delivery quantities and deadlines will actually be met. Zelensky offered to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries if Russia ends its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Laska referred to this as a symmetrical de-escalation offer that is on the table for the Americans. She also cited rocket attacks on a residential building in Pryluky, glide bombs on city buses in Kramatorsk, and shelling of the energy supply in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa. She warned that Russia would respond to the diesel with terrorism. The EU also criticized Laska: On September 22, Usmanov and Fridman were removed from the sanctions list under pressure from France, Slovakia, and Luxembourg. According to Laska, Zelensky pointed out that the attacks had since increased. At the same time, the EU extended the remaining personal sanctions from six months to three years. Latvia had long resisted the compromise and ultimately paved the way for it by abstaining. Laska compared Trump's diesel concession to Russia with the European compromise in favor of unanimity. In her view, the costs of such agreements are borne not by their authors but by the people in Pryluky, Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Oleshkiv. #Trump #Putin #Dieselpreise (translated)

Amalia accused Russia of deliberately launching attacks against civilians in Ukraine, citing strikes on apartment buildings, schools, shopping centers, public transport, playgrounds, and bridges. She argued that most of the victims were Russian-speaking individuals in Eastern Ukraine and criticized those who, as she wrote, showed sensitivity towards Palestine and Iran in Greece, but not towards Ukrainians. Regarding the recent strikes, she mentioned that in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, 22 civilians were killed, including 5 children—three of them one year old—and 54 were injured. For Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast, she wrote that two city buses were attacked and 33 people were killed, while the number of injured remained unknown. She added that 9 people were also killed in Kyiv, 2 in Kremenchuk, 2 in Konotop, 2 in Oleksandriia, and 1 in Zaporizhzhia, raising the death toll of civilian casualties over the two days to 71, according to her. Regarding the negotiations with U.S. intervention, Amalia claimed that Zelensky was accepting a ceasefire with the troops in their current positions and was asking for guarantees from the West. She stated that pro-Russian separatist forces controlled 60% of Donetsk Oblast before the Russian invasion of 2022, that since then the Russian army had captured an additional 20%, and that it had not managed to capture the remaining 20%. She asserted that Putin did not want a ceasefire, but a peace agreement that would require Zelensky to go to Moscow, the demilitarization of Ukraine, a constitutional commitment not to seek EU or NATO membership, and the recognition of the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, including Crimea. She added that Russia was also demanding the surrender of the remaining 20% of Donetsk Oblast that it had not captured. Amalia compared the situation to Cyprus, where, as she wrote, since August 1974 a ceasefire had been in effect under UN supervision, without a permanent peace agreement, because Turkey demanded recognition of the loss of territories and the pseudostate. She concluded that Russia sought, in her view, the humiliation of Ukraine and not peace. #Ουκρανία #Ειρήνη #Πόλεμος (translated)

A gift for Putin stated that the rescuer captured on video with a little girl has now met with her. According to the author, he rescued the girl from the rubble of a house in the city of Pryluky in northern Ukraine after it was struck by a Russian missile on Wednesday; 22 people died in the attack. https://t.co/hWFEm3A6Vi #Ukrajina #záchrana #humanita (translated)

Nico Lange described it as shameful for Germany that former Chancellor Schröder held a public spectacle in Moscow. At the same time, he wrote that Russia had killed 33 peaceful people in Kramatorsk and 20 people in Pryluky, including five children. https://t.co/oWlrp8A1sW #Deutschland #Russland #Frieden (translated)

The author wrote that Ukraine was observing a day of mourning after an attack in Pryluky that, according to the post, killed 22 people, including five children. The author also said Russian attacks had caused destruction and injuries in 10 regions of Ukraine and expressed condolences to the victims’ families and loved ones. https://t.co/eOn5D6Vaen #Ukraine #Mourning #PrayforUkraine #UA #RU

The author referred to an attack in Pryluky in northern Ukraine as another Russian act of terror against women and children. According to him, nine people were killed and 26 were injured; three of the deceased were children. https://t.co/fBQ63gjHWQ #Ukraine #Frieden #Terroranschlag #UA #RU (translated)

The author accused Putin of marking his birthday by unleashing another wave of drones and missiles on Ukraine. They wrote that civilians and critical infrastructure were the primary targets, and said residential buildings had been hit in Kyiv, Dnipro, Pryluky and Zaporizhzhia. The post also cited “at least seven” but did not specify what the figure referred to. #Putin #Ukraine #War #UA

The author of the post stated that the missile destroyed a multi-story building in the city of Pryluky in the Chernihiv region and that the number of people who died in the rubble was not yet known. In Kremenchuk, according to him, the nighttime attack damaged civilian buildings, and its target was the energy infrastructure; the left bank remained without power. He also mentioned two dead, but did not complete the place in the post. https://t.co/F0DVy39R3U #Ukrajina #válka #tragédie #UA (translated)