{"id":2675,"date":"2026-10-14T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:04:45","slug":"us-russia-deal-on-diesel-is-very-risky-choice-italy-pm-meloni-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"US-Russia deal on diesel is &#8220;very risky choice,&#8221; Italy PM Meloni says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The deal between the United States and Russia over diesel supply is \u200ba \u201cvery risky choice\u201d that runs counter to efforts to \u200cforce Vladimir Putin to sit at a negotiating table with Ukraine, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States and Russia \u200bsaid last week they had agreed that Moscow would \u200binitially supply more than 300,000 metric tons of \u2060diesel to US and global markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome of this decision \u200bis uncertain, while the risks are clear,\u201d Meloni told the Italian parliament ahead \u200bof an EU summit this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt provides Moscow with legitimacy as its bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, generates new revenue to finance \u200bthe war, and implicitly weakens the effectiveness of sanctions,\u201d \u200bshe added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said after the agreement that it would lower \u200cenergy prices in the United States, a major political headache for his Republican Party ahead of pivotal midterm elections that determine control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In other remarks, Meloni said the 27 EU \u200bcountries should appoint \u201can \u200bauthoritative figure\u201d to \u2060negotiate for Europe over the Russia-Ukraine war, without ruling out a formal mandate for the \u200bE3 Group comprising Germany, France and Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf \u200bFrance, \u2060Germany, and Great Britain believe they can do better on their own than we could all do together, and so far that \u2060is \u200bthe choice they have made, then \u200bat least let them do so on behalf of everyone and with an \u200bofficial mandate,\u201d Meloni said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deal between the United States and Russia over diesel supply is \u200ba \u201cvery risky choice\u201d that runs counter to efforts to \u200cforce Vladimir Putin to sit at a negotiating table with Ukraine, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday. The United States and Russia \u200bsaid last week they had agreed that Moscow would \u200binitially supply more than 300,000 metric tons of \u2060diesel to US and global markets. \u201cThe outcome of this decision \u200bis uncertain, while the risks are clear,\u201d Meloni told the Italian parliament ahead \u200bof an EU&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}