Trump urges Ukraine to stop ‘knocking out’ Russian oil refineries as U.S. diesel hits record

NEW: Trump urges Ukraine to stop 'knocking out' Russian oil refineries, saying the attacks are 'hurting the world' as US diesel tops $6 a gallon for the first time ever amid the Ukraine and Iran wars.

Six dollars a gallon for diesel. That has never happened in America before.

And President Trump says he knows who to blame. Not the Middle East, in his words, but Ukraine. On a visit to Ireland he told Zelenskyy to stop knocking out Russian refineries, saying the strikes are hurting the world. Ukraine has spent months hitting Russia's oil facilities to raise the cost of the war, and it's worked so well that Moscow banned diesel exports through September just to keep its own pumps running.

The Kremlin, unsurprisingly, loved the message. Peskov said any call for Kyiv to stop can only be welcomed. Meanwhile Brent is above a hundred and eight dollars, and American truckers and farmers are paying sixty three percent more than a year ago to fill up.

So the strategy is working exactly as designed. The problem is the bill just landed in Ohio, not Moscow.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.