WashingtonWashington is letting sanctioned tankers begin shipping crude legitimately.
It is the latest White House bid to lower oil prices, with Brent settling at $109.30 Monday.
Investors would buy and refurbish idled sanctioned ships, which Energy Secretary Chris Wright says will stop carrying sanctioned oil.
Analytics firm Kpler estimates only 24 of about 160 US-sanctioned vessels could return to mainstream trade.
Polymarket traders give a Trump-Putin-Xi meeting before 2027 an 86% chance.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 400+ reports worldwide
- The National
- quotes Wright's 'bad-guy fleet' to 'good-guy fleet' conversion and sets it against Kpler's estimate that only 24 of about 160 sanctioned vessels could return
- Semafor leans critical
- maps the waivers as a Russian economic windfall, estimating diesel-waiver exporter gains of $30 to $40 per ton
- Aol leans critical
- emphasizes the bipartisan blowback, noting the waiver undercuts the late Lindsey Graham's sanctions legacy
- TRT World leans critical
- reports Trump's claim that someone other than Zelenskyy should negotiate for Ukraine, and his nuclear-disarmament framing of a Putin-Xi trilateral
- The Kyiv Independent leans critical
- ties Trump's 'fine on Ukraine' remark to a same-day drone strike that killed six and the WSJ report of a Putin-Xi summit without Zelensky
Sources: Semafor, Aol, The National, TRT World, The Kyiv Independent