Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country and causing Moscow to ban diesel exports in July, one factor disrupting the global supply of diesel.

U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel fuel infrastructure, saying attacks are causing a global…

Kyiv says Russia's oil industry both funds and directly fuels Moscow's more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbor.

"He's causing a shortage of diesel," U.S. President Donald Trump said.

The price of diesel hit a nationwide average of $6 per gallon for the first time in U.S. history on Friday.