The shipment follows Witkoff's meeting with Putin in St. Petersburg, where the US envoy brought "ideas" for a Ukraine peace deal and thanked Putin for lifting diesel export controls to ease a global shortage caused by the Iran war's disruption of Strait of Hormuz oil flows. Witkoff said President Donald Trump, along with American farmers and truckers, is "deeply grateful" for the fuel sales, while Putin offered to supply large quantities of Russian fertilizers to the US market. Putin also reiterated Moscow's willingness to help resolve the US-Iran war by drawing on decades of "special, trusting relations" with Tehran, Days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Iran on Monday for the first time since the conflict began.
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First Russian Diesel Tanker Sails for US Thursday Under Putin-Trump Supply Deal
Commodities6 hours ago
Moscow will dispatch a tanker carrying 40,000 tonnes of diesel to the US on Thursday as the first of several vessels scheduled to depart in succession once financial arrangements are finalized, President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. Putin said global diesel prices immediately fell 5% to 6% after Washington and Moscow announced the supply agreement, and a Kremlin aide said Putin and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff agreed during Wednesday talks in St. Petersburg that the deal will help stabilize the global market. Prediction market Polymarket puts the odds of the US importing Russian diesel by the end of next month at 69%, which would mark the first such imports in more than four years.
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