OREANDA-NEWS US President Donald Trump has positively assessed the diesel deal with Russia. This is reported by TASS.

"They didn't give us oil, they gave oil to the world. It was very good," Trump said. The American leader made such a statement while talking to reporters at the Andrews military base near Washington before flying to Michigan.

On October 9, Trump announced successful negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on diesel fuel. According to him, Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and world markets, and in November, Russia will ship another 500,000 tons and a million "immediately after that." "After the decision on diesel, prices on world markets fell by five to six percent," Putin said meanwhile.

Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the fact of the diesel deal between Russia and the United States can be assessed positively. "The volume of diesel production in the Russian Federation is sufficient to cover the domestic market and exports," she also explained.