Putin tells Trump Kyiv's drone attacks undermined immediate resumption of trilateral talks

Mixed · 2Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump in a phone call on Friday 9 October that Kyiv had undermined the possibility of an immediate resumption of trilateral peace talks, the Kremlin said. 1 2 Mixed · 2Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Ukraine had launched a massive drone attack on Moscow, other cities and polling stations, and targeted people involved in organising the election, on the main voting day in last month's Russian parliamentary elections. 1 2 Mixed · 2Ushakov said that as Putin had put it, Russia would now consider when the negotiations, involving the US, Russia and Ukraine, could resume. 1 2

Right · 1Putin said Moscow had been ready to resume negotiations with Kyiv after the elections, but that the Ukrainian attacks put the peace process in jeopardy; these accounts come from the Kremlin and were not independently verified in the coverage. 1 Right · 1Ushakov also said the leaders discussed major economic initiatives, including potential supplies of Russian fuel; Trump said Russia had agreed to supply diesel immediately to US and global markets to lower fuel prices before next month's US midterm elections. 1 Mixed · 2Al Jazeera reported the deal as more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel, and said US lawmakers, Zelenskyy and European allies criticised it; Zelenskyy called it a "gift to Putin", and a UK spokesperson said Britain would maintain pressure on Russia through sanctions. Reuters noted analysts said the amounts would likely not reduce prices greatly. 2 1

Mixed · 2US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the war is at a dangerous stalemate and the US will keep working toward a settlement; Zelenskyy had said earlier in the week that Ukraine was ready to hold trilateral talks this month. 1 2