U.S. President Donald Trump tried to explain in a Truth Social post his easing of sanctions on Russia, which are designed to make it harder for Moscow to continue the war. Trump called his decision "very simple" and claimed: "I am in the middle of negotiations to achieve peace in the war, and I do not want to do anything that would foolishly push Russia away from the negotiating table." According to him, there has been "a lot of progress," and he claimed that "Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help Iran." Trump ignored the impact of the war in Iran on fuel prices and claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "doesn't care" about the damage to the diesel market: "He doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did."