Russian diesel tankers cast adrift

Putin’s diesel tankers cast adrift after Trump deal hits the rocks

Iona Cleave

Thu, November 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM GMT

Hundreds of thousands of barrels of Russian diesel bound for the United States are drifting in the Atlantic with no willing buyers or a port to go to.

Such is the outcome of Donald Trump’s gambit of striking a deal with Vladimir Putin to lower fuel costs before the midterms.

Not one diesel tanker loaded in a Russian port has reached US shores since the Oct 9 agreement, which experts told The Telegraph is now effectively “dead in the water”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-russian-oil-tanker-docked-121404889.html

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