Kyiv25,000 people are killed monthly in the war, Trump said.
Trump’s rhetoric squeezes Ukraine’s main leverage against Russia’s war economy: refinery strikes.
Brent crude traded near $130.80 a barrel on 15 September, up 27.9% in a week, after the Hormuz closure and refinery strikes.
“Putin started this war. Putin can stop it,” said Estonia’s foreign minister, Margus Tsahkna.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- News.com.au leans critical
- Los Angeles Times
- frames Trump's refinery-strike pressure on Zelensky as driven by global price concerns, obscuring Kyiv's retaliatory logic
- USA Today leans critical
- reports Estonian FM's charge that Trump's peace efforts give Putin 'more time' for battlefield escalation
Sources: News.com.au, Los Angeles Times, USA Today