Trump Administration Warns Ukraine Against Attacking Non-Russian Vessels

The Trump administration has formally warned Ukraine to refrain from attacking non-Russian vessels in the Black Sea. The diplomatic notice followed meetings between senior US officials and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, whose company chartered one of the four tankers recently targeted by Ukrainian forces near the Russian port of Novorossiysk. Novorossiysk serves as the terminus for the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which supplies 2% of global daily crude oil and is considered by Washington as a…