ZELENSKIY SAYS UKRAINE IS CARRYING OUT ATTACKS AGAINST RUSSIAN DIESEL, BUT THAT THIS DOES NOT AFFECT PRICES IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD, NOTING RUSSIA’S CURRENT SHARE OF GLOBAL EXPORTS IS 2.2% AND ITS IMPACT MUCH CLOSER TO ZERO, WHILE THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS A MUCH GREATER IMPACT ON ENERGY PRICES

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that Kyiv is carrying out strikes against Russian diesel infrastructure but argued these attacks will not materially move prices in the United States or globally, citing Russia's current 2.2% share of global exports. The headline's claim sits on a supply-side transmission channel: diesel is a middle-distillate fuel where refinery outages and export-terminal disruptions can tighten regional balances quickly, and Russia's exports are concentrated in seaborne cargoes that can be rerouted but not replaced without cost. Diesel crack spreads, the margin between crude and diesel futures, along with European gasoil and Atlantic Basin distillate benchmarks, are the instruments most exposed, since sustained loss of Russian volumes would widen those spreads before affecting flat crude. Oil-linked equities and freight rates for product tankers in the Baltic and Mediterranean could also react if disruptions tighten logistics. Traders should watch the next weekly U.S. Energy Information Administration distillate inventory report and any Russian Ministry of Energy statements on export volumes for evidence of whether the strik

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