The United States has purchased fuel from Russia after the United States hit refineries in Russia.
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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
The claim departs from the passage: the speaker says Ukraine ('they') keeps hitting refineries in Russia, not that the United States did, so the 'United States hit refineries' element is not the post's claim and is graded as unverifiable.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
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What was said
… Is our partner, we, we, we they were our strong partner, we're losing them, we're sad to see them go. Then he says, you know, they're supposed to be in the middle, but they're not in the middle because they're not supporting us; now they're supporting them because we're buying fuel from Russia after they continue to hit refineries in Russia, which has caused the fuel crisis in the United States. Maybe that's true, maybe it's not true. The, the, the, the Us. Has backed Ukraine this entire war. We've dumped billions of dollars in, in weapon stockpiles, billions of dollars in cash. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Sources show Trump announced a deal on October 9, 2026 for Russian diesel to be supplied to the US, and a tanker loaded in Primorsk was heading to New York, though the buyer and seller were not yet identified.[1][2]
Context. Energy agencies attribute refinery damage in Russia to Ukrainian drone attacks, not to the United States, so the claim that the US hit Russian refineries has no support and departs from the passage's attribution to Ukraine.[3]
Sources
3 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 not rated
- 1Trump strikes deal with Putin for Russian dieselapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2EXCLUSIVE: First Russian diesel from Putin-Trump deal heading for US, data showsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Diesel Prices Surge as Iran War and Russian Outages Cut ...finchannel.com · not rated · cited for: context
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