Analysis: A gift for Putin, a rebuke for Kyiv

In three days, President Donald Trump eased sanctions on Russian diesel, called for Ukraine to replace its president and announced an energy ceasefire that neither side had publicly confirmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy learned about the supposed ceasefire from Trump’s Truth Social post. A few hours later, Russian drones struck a power plant in Kharkiv. The White House may have a strategy behind all this, but so far, it hasn’t explained it. The diesel deal Trump announce