A US President Donald Trump call on his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to lay off attacking the Kremlin’s energy industry because diesel prices in the US are too high came in the wake of a record month of strikes by Ukraine against Russia’s energy sector, and about six hours too late to prevent waves of Ukrainian robot aircraft from setting two more Russian oil refineries on fire. The US president, speaking to reporters on Sunday during a visit to the 2026 Amgen Irish Open golf tournament, said that Ukraine’s long-range drone raids against Russian oil refineries were the main reason world diesel prices had spiked, and called on Zelensky to call off the attacks.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets – but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel. This isn’t done by the Middle East. This is done by what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine. So we spoke to Mr. Zelensky about it. There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel because that’s hurting the world,” Trump told a gaggle of Irish and international reporters. One Ukrainian strike package launched in the early morning hours well before Trump stepped onto the Irish links flew some 300 kilometers (185 miles) through Russia-controlled air space to hit the Slavyansk-EKO refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, damaging a crude oil processing unit and fuel reservoirs. The plant’s main business is processing oil and gas condensate into refined fuels, including diesel.