Kremlin Welcomes Trump's Refinery Call as Kherson's 'Human Safari' Grinds On
Moscow formally welcomed the American call for Ukraine to stop striking refineries — offering nothing about its own strikes in return — while its drones continued the pattern Kherson’s residents call the human safari: individual civilians hunted in cars and streets, one killed in the city, another in Kushuhun. Russia claimed a village west of Orikhiv; Ukraine struck a radar near Crimea’s Saky airfield; the outcry over Sunday’s border train strike gathered signatures across Europe.
The asymmetry Moscow seeks is now explicit: an “energy truce” that silences Ukraine’s one strategic campaign while Russia’s drone hunt continues at retail scale would trade Kyiv’s leverage for nothing measurable — and the Kremlin welcoming the American proposal without reciprocity is the tell that it understands the terms better than their author. Kherson’s safari deserves its ugly name in the record: drones with operators choosing individual pedestrians is not area bombardment but selection, documented case by case for eventual tribunals that feel both inevitable and remote. The EW systems Russia is installing at the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant add a nuclear layer to the same impunity calculus. Watch whether Washington attaches reciprocity to its truce idea — that single word decides whose proposal it really is.