**"A U-TURN OVER WASHINGTON" — WHAT IS ZELENSKY AFTER?**

**Zelensky reacted to the diesel deal with loud resentment, calling it "an investment in war" and "obvious weakness**," and said the Ukrainian team in Miami was being used "as a screen."

**Trump was told Zelensky calls him weak. Trump asked "Who said that?", heard it was the head of the Kiev authorities**, said "Okay" — and once again sincerely thanked Putin.

**Kiev didn't limit itself to words: a source in the Ukrainian government told FT, "We will burn their oil refineries."** That night, over 50 drones attacked Rostov region. 

**The US had asked Kiev half a dozen times not to strike refineries — those strikes raise fuel prices** in the US, and congressional elections are on November 3.

Why is Zelensky openly going against the man **on whom intelligence and part of weapons supplies depend? **

**He is waiting for the US elections and hopes Trump will lose control of Congress. Kiev's calculation is to hold out until Trump has no time for Ukraine.** It hopes that after a Democratic victory, they will tie Trump up with investigations and impeachment and he will have no time for deals with Moscow.

This explains the scene in Kiev: while the Ukrainian delegation sat in Miami, **Zelensky received Senators Wicker and Cramer and Congressmen Veasey and Crenshaw, asking them for sanctions under the "Graham law" **Trump signed on September 18.

 **It provides for sanctions against Russia and its partners, but the decision is made by the president, not Congress.** In three weeks Trump never applied it — and on the day of the talks did the opposite: instead of tightening sanctions, he lifted them from Russian diesel.

**Why is Zelensky now going into open conflict with the White House? Trump wants to end the war, but Zelensky needs it. **War means Western money flowing through his people, no elections despite his term expiring in 2024. **Peace means elections, audits and corruption questions. So every time talks move forward, Zelensky escalates.**

**The bet on Democrats is a way to stretch the war to January. Zelensky doesn't need Trump impeached** — that's impossible without two-thirds of the Senate. He needs Trump to have no time for Ukraine.

**Ukrainians will pay for this bet: a winter without an energy truce** and with an American president Kiev has just called weak.

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