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Exclusive: Zelensky tells Axios Trump's diesel deal with Putin "not fair and not honest"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios in a phone interview on Friday that President Trump's decision to unilaterally lift sanctions on Russia and allow it to export diesel was "not fair and not honest." "You know, it looks like a happy birthday present for Putin.
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All three outlets frame the story around Trump’s diesel arrangement with Putin, but they emphasize different angles. Axios focuses on Zelensky’s criticism and, in a separate item, on a U.S. official’s claim that the deal followed Zelensky ignoring repeated requests to stop attacks on Russian refineries. CBS News foregrounds Trump presenting the deal as a response to fuel prices and the midterms, while Channel 4 News ties the same diesel theme to the midterms and adds only in its extract a line about the Zaporizhzhia attack.
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