Zelenskyy Urges Trump to Leverage Xi Meeting for Reduced China-Russia Energy Ties

Imagine two countries are fighting, and one country is getting money to buy weapons by selling oil.

Ukraine's leader asked a former leader of another big country, Mr. Trump, to talk to the leader of a third country, Mr. Xi, who buys a lot of that oil.

Ukraine's leader hopes that if Mr. Xi buys less oil, the fighting country will have less money for the war.

Mr. Trump is going to meet Mr. Xi soon and has said he will talk about this.

This is because the money from selling oil helps pay for the fighting.