‼️BREAKING || TIME TO LEAVE SLOVYANSK -- RESIDENT FILMS SHATTERED FLATS AS TRUMP ANNOUNCES UKRAINE ENERGY CEASEFIRE Slovyansk -- A resident filming the wreckage of a block of flats says in Russian that it is now time to leave the city. His warning accompanies scenes far removed from Trump's ceasefire announcements. The camera sweeps across a courtyard strewn with debris, shattered windows and damaged balconies before returning to a collapsed section of the building. Concrete floors have fallen into a heap. Rooms stand open to the air, with a broken slab hanging above the wreckage. Ukrainian authorities said Russian airstrikes partially destroyed two blocks of flats and injured seven people. Seven other residential blocks and a shop suffered damage. Meanwhile, Trump announced an immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. "Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" he wrote. Ukrainian officials initially told CNN that the announcement had taken them by surprise. Zelensky subsequently expressed support but said Ukraine was awaiting details from Washington, stopping short of confirming that a settled agreement was already operating. Moscow did not immediately comment. Earlier, responding to Trump's call for Ukraine to choose a new president, Zelensky told ABC: "With all respect to President Trump, it's up to our society, up to our people to choose one or another leader." He offered Trump to persuade Putin to accept a full 60-day ceasefire, and Ukraine would organise a vote. That demands considerably more than a pause in attacks on energy infrastructure. With even the narrower arrangement awaiting clarification, a comprehensive two-month truce looks a remote basis for promising elections. Zelensky invokes the people's right to choose while leaving the vote dependent on a ceasefire nobody has secured.

‼️BREAKING || FROM 'NOT CARPET BOMBING IS WORSE THAN CARPET BOMBING' AND 'HAMAS BOMB MAKER NOBEL PRIZE' TO 'UKRAINE BLOOD ON TRUMP'S HANDS' -- KASPAROV'S TONGUE GOES OVERDRIVE New York -- Former Soviet chess world champion Garry Kasparov has triggered fresh controversy with a succession of increasingly radical political statements on Ukraine, Israel and Donald Trump. Following the Russo-American diesel agreement, Kasparov accused Trump of effectively siding with Moscow. "Trump doesn't want to hide anymore. He is Putin's business partner (a junior one!) and thus an accomplice in Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine," Kasparov wrote. He then warned members of Trump's administration that they would "not be able to wash the blood of innocent Ukrainians from your hands," adding: "We see you and we will not forget, forgive, or let anyone else forget." Days earlier, Kasparov attacked the decision to honour veteran South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. "Maybe next year they'll give the Chemistry prize to a Hamas bomb maker," he wrote. And in perhaps his most bombastic speech, Kasparov argued that if Israel did to Gaza for 24 hours what Russia does to Ukraine, "there would be no Gaza." He then delivered the line which rapidly became the defining soundbite of the interview: "Not carpet bombing is worse than carpet bombing." Kasparov's political chess board appears to be getting considerably less restrained.

‼️BREAKING || FIRST 280,000 BARRELS OF RUSSIAN DIESEL RELIEF NEAR U.S. AS TRUMP CALLS FOR ZELENSKY OUSTER Wilmington -- The first reported shipment of Russian diesel following Donald Trump's fuel agreement with Vladimir Putin is approaching the U.S. East Coast -- as the American president publicly called for Ukraine to replace Volodymyr Zelensky with a leader capable of making peace. MINERVA ZEN tanker left St Petersburg on September 22 carrying about 280,000 barrels of diesel and gasoil. Vessel-tracking reports place the tanker in the western Atlantic heading towards the United States, with Wilmington, North Carolina, listed by one tracker as its expected destination. The timing is particularly striking. MINERVA ZEN sailed 17 days before Trump publicly announced his agreement with Putin on October 9, raising questions over how long preparations for renewed Russian diesel supplies had been under way in secret from Zelensky and Ukraine. The tanker voyage itself does not establish when the Trump-Putin agreement was finalised, and tracking services have published differing destination data. But it means Russian diesel was already crossing the Atlantic when Washington publicly announced the sanctions relief and supply arrangement. Trump then turned directly on Zelensky on Saturday. "Zelensky could have settled this war many times, many, many times, and he chooses not to," Trump told reporters. "I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal," he said, adding that Zelensky, "for some reason... never does." Trump then delivered his bluntest political conclusion: "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president." The U.S. president also accused Zelensky of worsening the international diesel shortage by continuing Ukrainian attacks against Russian refineries despite repeated American demands that they stop. Trump said Washington had effectively told Kyiv it could continue fighting Russia but should leave refinery infrastructure alone. "He better damn well stop," Trump said. The extraordinary intervention amounts to Trump's clearest public call yet for Zelensky's removal from office, coming barely 24 hours after the Ukrainian leader attacked Washington's diesel agreement with Moscow as unfair, weak and a "birthday present" for Putin. Separately, an undisclosed source in Ukraine's presidential office has claimed Zelensky erupted into a prolonged "triple F-word" tirade after learning of the agreement. That account could not be independently verified. Axios did report that Zelensky sounded exasperated and dismayed during a 15-minute interview after discovering that the diesel arrangement had been negotiated without Ukraine being informed beforehand. Meanwhile, MINERVA ZEN continues towards the American coast with its Russian cargo already aboard. Whatever the precise chronology of the political negotiations, the diesel left St Petersburg weeks before the deal became public -- and it now appears set to reach America just as Trump tells Zelensky that Ukraine needs another president.

‼️BREAKING || TRUMP AND PUTIN AGREE 4.8 MILLION-TONNE RUSSIAN DIESEL HELP -- ANGER IN KYIV AS ZELENSKY WARNS OF MOSCOW'S "TERROR AND TREACHERY" Washington/Moscow/Kyiv -- Donald Trump has announced an agreement to bring millions of tonnes of Russian diesel to American and global markets, opening the door to Moscow's fuel exports and drawing an angry response from Kyiv. Trump said Russia would supply more than 300,000 tonnes immediately, another 500,000 tonnes in November and one million tonnes straight afterwards. A further three million tonnes would follow depending on the condition of Russia's refineries -- bringing the announced programme to roughly 4.8 million tonnes. In his Truth Social announcement, Trump promised diesel prices would come down "IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST", presenting cheaper fuel for American farmers, ranchers and truckers as his priority. The US Treasury issued a licence permitting transactions in Russian diesel, including imports into the US, through 7 April 2027. Russia said it would begin lifting its diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule. Moscow had previously extended the ban through 31 October. Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to supply oil and petroleum products to American and global markets, saying the move would benefit the world economy. Only last month, Trump signed fresh sanctions legislation targeting Russian energy revenues. Now his administration is arranging access to Russian fuel. Zelensky warned that Russia would repay the diesel arrangement with further terror and treachery, accusing Washington of investing in the continuation of the war. "Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilised world," he said, implying that Ukraine is the main pillar of that "civilised" order. Financial Times correspondent Christopher Miller reported frustration and anger in Kyiv. A senior Ukrainian official told him that long range drone attacks on Russian energy would continue. "We will burn their [Russian] refineries," the official said. The atmosphere on the Russo-American presidential telephone line was apparently rather warmer. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said the call lasted an hour and a half and that neither president wanted to hang up first. Trump congratulated Putin on his birthday. According to Ushakov, US envoy Steve Witkoff had contacted him on 7 October to convey Trump's greetings and arrange a personal call. Ushakov said Putin told Trump that Ukrainian strikes would not halt Russia's advance. He also blamed Ukrainian attempts to disrupt Russia's elections for undermining an immediate return to negotiations, while maintaining that diplomatic options over Iran remained open. Ukrainian journalist @anatoliisharii offered his assessment on Telegram: "If tomorrow Trump provides Russia with Patriot missile systems to protect its oil refineries, I wouldn't be surprised."