A refinery-for-grid swap is the first concrete trade on the table. Tariffs on India and China would be the stick behind it. Neither is a ceasefire.
- Meeting Tuesday, New York. First sit-down since July. Weekend phone call already done.
- Zelensky to cameras. “We are ready for an energy ceasefire.” No Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel and refineries if Russia stops hitting power, heat and water.
- “Before winter.” Trump nodded and repeated it.
- Trump on Putin. “He’ll meet. He’s willing to meet. He wants to see the war end.” No face to face in seven years. Moscow had not answered by the first wires.
- Trump UN line on Ukraine. About 25,000 people a month dying, mostly soldiers. “Ridiculous and never ending.” New tariff power on buyers of Russian energy “if necessary.”
- Kyiv asks. More Patriots. Help for the energy system. Black Sea food lanes. Witkoff and Kushner were in Ukraine this month after hours with Putin in Moscow.
- Russia still hit Kyiv with daylight drones hours before Zelensky’s Assembly slot. Two dead, 23 hurt in the morning AP count.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/85181
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/world/europe/zelensky-trump-war-russia.html
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