US Vice President JD Vance personally asked Kiev to halt strikes on the infrastructure linked to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), the Financial Times reported, citing sources. According to the report, Vance conveyed Washington’s request in a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky on July 31. "Ukraine has not struck tankers near the CPC terminal since then," the newspaper noted. Kiev agreed to the Trump administration’s request because it was seeking a US licence to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, another source said. Bloomberg reported on August 8, citing sources, that at the US request, Kiev had pledged at Washington’s request not to attack Russia-linked oil tankers and Black Sea infrastructure involved in the export of Kazakh oil.