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Trump claims Russia and Ukraine agree to energy ceasefire

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President Trump claimed Sunday that Russia and Ukraine agreed to an " energy ceasefire " and will halt attacks on each other's energy facilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells Axios the announcement "was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire, Ukraine will agree." W

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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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