WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member issued the following news release:

Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the below statement condemning President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel fuel sales globally through General License 135 (https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20261009_33).

"President Trump's announcement that the United States will allow global purchases of Russian diesel for six months, is a total betrayal of Ukraine, our European allies and American n...