On October 9, 2026, President Trump announced an agreement with Russia to supply about 36 million barrels of diesel to U.S. markets and suspend sanctions on Russian diesel exports for roughly six months. Reporting since has put the November tranche at 500,000 metric tons, or about 123,300 barrels a day, traced the relief to a Trump-Putin call, and noted that the Treasury issued a six-month waiver minutes after the announcement. A Greek-flagged tanker carrying 275,000 barrels is due on the East Coast. Twelve senators, six of them Republican, now call the deal illegal and contrary to the 2022 sanctions law, and Russia struck Kharkiv's energy grid shortly after Trump claimed an energy ceasefire. Putin has acknowledged Ukrainian refinery strikes cost…