Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow saw no direct connection between the U.S. decision to allow certain Russian diesel exports and negotiations over Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported on Oct. 13, refuting media reports that U.S. officials construed the deal as a means of tempering Russia's negotiating position. The same day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had received no advance warning from its partners before Russia's latest ballistic missile attack, though Ukrainian officials said intelligence-sharing with the United States continued.