European leaders are standing by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky after US President Donald Trump branded him “more difficult to deal with than Putin” and called Mr Zelensky’s decision to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace”.
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It comes as a bombshell report claims the order to slow Kyiv’s access to a critical US-controlled satellite system came from within the White House.
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