{"id":930573,"date":"2026-10-16T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:04:10","slug":"zelensky-trump-trade-jabs-as-alliance-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930573\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky, Trump trade jabs as alliance spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"

European leaders are standing by Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky after US President Donald Trump branded him \u201cmore difficult to deal with than Putin\u201d and called Mr Zelensky\u2019s decision to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries a \u201cdisgrace\u201d. <\/p>\n

This article covers world events on Friday (Australia time). For Saturday\u2019s live updates, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It comes as a bombshell report claims the order to slow Kyiv\u2019s access to a critical US-controlled satellite system came from within the White House.<\/p>\n

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Read on for more updates from Friday<\/p>\n

Read related topics:Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European leaders are standing by Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelensky after US President Donald Trump branded him \u201cmore difficult to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[412401,382106,400380,497415,437024,497406,406063,390023,497413,400403,497405,16377,2490,497408,39598,43,497409,4119,405777,497412,44,45053,497410,46907,94130,497407,406840,386455,497411,378816,41,39,42,40,497416,5525,47360,497414,235413,134919],"class_list":["post-930573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-s-access","tag-s-decision","tag-s-live-updates","tag-s-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-a-bombshell-report","tag-a-critical-us-controlled-satellite-system","tag-a-dig","tag-a-disgrace","tag-alliance-spirals","tag-australia-time","tag-bombshell-starshield","tag-click","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-leaders","tag-friday","tag-headlines","tag-here-it","tag-kyiv","tag-more-updates","tag-mr-zelensky","tag-news","tag-putin","tag-russian-oil-refineries","tag-saturday","tag-strikes","tag-than-putin","tag-the-order","tag-the-us-president","tag-the-white-house-read","tag-this-article","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump-trade-jabs","tag-ukraine","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-within-white-house","tag-world-events","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}