Trump: Ukraine and American Democrats are to blame for rising gasoline prices
US President Donald Trump has again linked the rise in global fuel prices to Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries. According to him, such attacks reduce the supply of fuel on the world market. This time, Trump also named the closure of oil refining facilities in US states run by Democrats as one of the reasons for the price increase.
"What's driving gas prices up now is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because a record number of barrels of oil pass through there almost every day, but the word 'refineries.' Russian refineries are being blown up by Ukraine, and ours are being shut down by Democrats in blue states, for example in California," Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social.
Trump has repeatedly linked problems in the fuel market to Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil infrastructure. In mid-September, he stated that Ukraine should stop such strikes because, in his opinion, they contribute to a global diesel fuel shortage.
On September 28, Trump said he had discussed this issue with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to him, he asked Zelenskyy to ease strikes on Russian refineries, and in response, he heard that Ukraine would likely do so. However, on September 30, Trump again stated that the main reason for problems in the diesel fuel market was not related to the Middle East, but to events in Russia.
Ukraine subsequently continued to strike Russian oil refining enterprises and did not announce a unilateral cessation of such attacks. Zelenskyy proposed, with US mediation, to agree on a mutual cessation of strikes on energy facilities. Kyiv was ready to limit attacks on the Russian oil industry in exchange for Moscow stopping strikes on Ukrainian energy and critical infrastructure, but Russia did not agree to such a proposal.
At the same time, disruptions in fuel supplies from the Middle East were more significant than the reduction in Russian supplies. According to Bloomberg calculations, from March to August, diesel fuel supplies from the Middle East decreased by approximately 770,000 barrels per day, while supplies from Russia decreased by approximately 350,000 barrels per day.
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