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Kremlin calls Trump's proposed energy truce a good idea

September 15, 2026

Moscow praised Trump's energy truce proposal on Sept. 15 without saying it would stop hitting Ukrainian energy sites, and aerial strikes went on.

Russia and Ukraine have been striking each other's energy infrastructure, including refineries and fuel stations, and the US president has proposed a pause limited to those energy targets.

Key facts

Reuters reports Moscow's reaction to the US president's energy truce proposal, and both CNBC and Kyiv Post carry remarks Peskov made to reporters on a conference call, where he welcomed any push for Kyiv to leave civilian economic sites alone. Kyiv Post reports that Peskov never confirmed Moscow would stop hitting energy targets, and that he set out nothing resembling terms, a schedule or a way to monitor compliance. Reuters ties the Kremlin's warm words to its demand that sanctions be lifted. Financial Times reports Trump asserting the two countries have signed on to an energy pause, which is precisely what Peskov left unconfirmed.

The Ukrainian half of the account runs through France 24 and Al Jazeera, both carrying Zelensky's offer to hold off if Russia leaves infrastructure alone. CNBC and WSJ report that the bombardment went on while those positions were being stated, and Kyiv Post reports a further Russian drone hit on a Kyiv fuel station, one of several over the past week against sites the state chain Ukrnafta owns. The outlets line up on the sequence, an offer followed by a friendly but non-committal reply from Moscow, a conditional reply from Kyiv, and strikes the same day.

Fuel economics sit underneath all of it. CNBC reports diesel passing $6 a gallon on Friday, a level never reached before, and carries Trump urging that other targets be hit instead, since the squeeze on diesel traces to the war rather than the Middle East. Kyiv Post reports Peskov arguing that a pause would let Russia cover its own market for petroleum products, saying supply is already near complete and that refineries and other energy sites are being protected. Kyiv Post also reports fuel scarcity weighing on public mood before the State Duma vote set for Sept. 18 to 20, and a recent think tank finding that Russian fossil fuel exports fell 7% and revenues 8% in August. What each government said is settled, as is the fact that the strikes went on. Whether a pause exists anywhere but in words is not.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, "Any call on the Kyiv regime ‌to ⁠stop attacks on civilian economic infrastructure can only be welcomed," in remarks relayed by Reuters.

Dmitry Peskov

Still developing

The timetable, monitoring mechanism and formal terms for the truce had not moved as of the draft.

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Sources

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