Brian Kilmeade rebukes President Trump's pro-Russia fuel line on Ukraine
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On Fox & Friends Weekend, Brian Kilmeade blasted President Trump’s push to buy fuel from Russia, saying it would funnel money to the aggressor in the Ukraine war and deepen U.S. entanglement with Moscow.
Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade used the Sunday edition of Fox & Friends Weekend to openly denounce President Trump's recent remarks about Ukraine’s energy needs. Kilmeade argued that the president’s suggestion to buy diesel from Russia would send U.S. money straight to Moscow, which he described as the party that started the war.
"The president got ticked off because Zelensky came out and said, ‘Do not buy five hundred million tons of diesel,’" Kilmeade said, pointing to the Ukrainian leader’s opposition to the fuel purchase.
Kilmeade went further, insisting that the core blame for the conflict rests with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and saying there is no realistic peace plan that Putin would ever accept. He also connected the diesel shortage to disruptions caused by Iran in the Gulf region, suggesting the issue was being pushed back onto Russia in a way that could benefit Moscow politically.
Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy asked whether the United States should put its own interests ahead of Ukraine’s, leading to a tense exchange over the president’s claims about peace. Kilmeade cautioned that any U.S. alignment with Russia would amount to a serious strategic mistake.
The segment exposed deep disagreements among Fox News personalities over U.S. policy toward Ukraine and the wider geopolitical fallout from President Trump's comments.