In the long and tangled history of war and alliance, the moment when a patron asks a besieged nation to surrender one of its few effective weapons is rarely simple. Donald Trump has publicly urged Volodymyr Zelensky to cease Ukraine's strikes on Russian energy infrastructure — refineries and fuel facilities that Ukraine has used to constrain Moscow's military reach — even as Russia struck a civilian passenger train near the Polish border. The appeal reveals a tension at the heart of modern conflict: between managing economic disruption and sustaining the means of survival for a nation fighting
Trump urges Zelensky to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure
Moscow attacked a passenger train near the Polish border, indicating civilian casualties or displacement risk.