Wicker publicly urges Trump to make a deal with Zelenskyy: “Mr. President, Please Take This Win!”

• Mississippi’s senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee outlines Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer to suspend Ukrainian strikes on Russian petroleum.

Fresh off of a trip where he led a congressional delegation to Kyiv, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R) took to social media Sunday to publicly urge President Donald Trump (R) to make a deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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The senior Mississippi Senator and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee outlined Zelenskyy’s offer to suspend Ukrainian strikes on Russian petroleum, writing:

Fact 1: President Trump wants Ukraine to stop attacking Russian petroleum infrastructure.

Fact 2: President Zelenskyy wants access to U.S. targeting assistance to stop Russian missiles from being launched at Ukrainian civilians from inside Russia.

Fact 3: President Zelenskyy has agreed not to hit Russian petroleum in exchange for this targeting assistance.

Fact 4: President Trump can lower prices at the pump today by simply agreeing to this deal!

Senator Wicker then wrote, in all capital letters, “MR. PRESIDENT, PLEASE TAKE THIS WIN!”

On Friday, President Trump issued an executive order waiving key sanctions in the recently passed Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which he signed into law in mid-September. Trump now says waiving the sanctions “is in the national interests of the United States.”

“Section 115 of the Graham Act authorizes the President to waive the application of any sanctions provision with respect to a foreign person, any restriction with respect to a person, and any duty under the Graham Act, subject to the submission to the Congress of a written certification that such a waiver is in the national interests of the United States and a report explaining the basis for the certification,” Trump order read.

The White House had until October 18 to implement or waive the provisions in the Graham Act.

President Trump has floated a proposed deal with Russia to buy diesel from Russia and has urged Ukraine not to attack those facilities as the war between the two continues.

Zelenskyy responded to the decision by Trump to issue the waiver on social media, saying, “A decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end… This Act could have helped enormously – and still can! But it needs to actually work, and every voice in support of it matters.”

The Ukrainian President told the press over the weekend that the White House was working to set up a meeting between him, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Yet, on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Putin “has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow, said people familiar with the discussions.”

“Putin floated the idea in an Oct. 9 phone call with Trump, said a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the matter. That conversation also produced a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel fuel and facilitate its sale on the global market,” WSJ reported. “Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that discussions were taking place over a potential meeting.”

On Sunday, President Trump wrote a lengthy post on Truth Social saying his decision on Russia was “a very simple one.”

“I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table. Great progress is being made, and that includes current hostage negotiations! Signing that document at this time will do that, and I can sign it later, or any time that I want! Perhaps more importantly, Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing, and I want to keep it that way, and will, unless stupid people get in the way,” Trump wrote. “Lastly, Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States. Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World. Zelenskyy doesn’t care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did. He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END!”