US President Donald Trump is expected to press Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on an energy ceasefire during a face-to-face meeting this week during United Nations high-level week, as world diesel prices have soared due to the war in Iran, as well as Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Axar.az informs, citing The Guardian, Ukraine stepped up its attacks on Russia’s energy sector over the weekend, launching its largest reported strike yet on the Moscow region in a barrage that struck a major Moscow oil refinery and killed three people.

On Monday, Trump said the whole world was suffering due to an energy shortage that he said was being exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

“Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine,” Trump said in a Truths Social post on Monday morning. “A large number of their Diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission.”

“This ridiculous and never ending War with Ukraine must be ended,” Trump said. “The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month. What a shame!”

Trump had earlier blamed Kyiv for the escalating energy war even as Russia has decimated Ukraine’s economy and launched night barrages of drones and ballistic missiles against Ukrainian cities.

The two leaders are expected to meet on Tuesday during a rare sitdown on the sidelines of the high-level week of the United Nations general assembly. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will also be in Washington this week, and is expected to meet with secretary of state Marco Rubio.

During a trip to Ireland last week, Trump directly addressed Zelensky, saying he has to do “one thing: he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia”.

“Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage,” he said.

Trump spoke with Zelensky on Sunday in a phone call that one senior Ukrainian official told the Financial Times was about “diesel, diesel, diesel”.