WashingtonRubio calls Trump’s Russian oil waiver a 60-day pause.
Brent crude stood at $109.90 on 16 October, up 4.9% in 7 days.
Section 115 lets the president waive the Graham Act’s duties on the five largest buyers of Russian crude, including India and China.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the waiver “definitely helps only the Russians.”
No one has confirmed a three-way meeting with Russia and Ukraine at the G20 summit in December.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 60+ reports worldwide
- The Kyiv Independent
- frames the 60-day Russian oil sanctions waiver as a study period weighing sanctions against tariffs, justified by Iran-war oil prices
- TASS
- separates commercial Starlink from military Starshield and states Ukraine lacks access for deep strikes into Russia
- Українська правда
- floats a Ukraine-US-Russia trilateral at the Miami G20 and notes the Kremlin's earlier refusal to meet Zelenskyy outside Moscow
- Economic Times leans critical
- demands pressure on Moscow rather than Kyiv and calls Trump's sanctions decisions 'simply unfair' to Ukraine
- The News International leans critical
- highlights Europe needing its own Russia track and notes Trump removed penalties on Russian diesel shipments
Sources: Economic Times, The Kyiv Independent, TASS, Українська правда, The News International