Three children were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Service said Saturday. At least 16 people were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n
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Trump reverses course on Russian oil sanctions<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a deal to import Russian diesel as fuel prices soar, reversing course on sanctions against Moscow. Ukraine is condemning the move, warning it will directly benefit Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
Missiles also struck Kyiv in a daytime attack Saturday. Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said four people were wounded.<\/p>\n
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than 4\u00bd years since Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Ukraine is struggling to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 60 people over the past four days.<\/p>\n
Trump said Friday he had struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.<\/p>\n
Anger in Kyiv over diesel deal<\/p>\n
“Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote Saturday on X.<\/p>\n
He said the attacks show Moscow understands “any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities.” <\/p>\n
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Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive for a news conference on Oct. 4. Zelenskyy on Saturday criticized the new U.S.-Russia diesel deal. (Thomas Peter\/Reuters)<\/p>\n
“Russia\u2019s choice is war,” Zelenskyy said in a later Telegram post, after drone attacks on energy facilities and a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. <\/p>\n
He said every additional billion dollars Russia earns from exports would help pay for weapons components, drone upgrades, missile production and the recruitment of mercenaries, and that Moscow would only be ready to stop when its ability to fight diminished.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy added the diesel deal signalled to Moscow that “it is apparently permissible to continue attacking. And this needs to be corrected.” <\/p>\n
He urged the U.S., Europe and other partners to limit Russia\u2019s capacity to wage war.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said Ukraine was co-ordinating steps to counter the extra revenue Russia will receive, and that he had spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron about shoring up air defences, warning of an increased risk of further missile strikes in the coming days.<\/p>\n
He also said he had discussed the developments with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, adding that Ukraine would receive ammunition in the coming days for the F-16s it uses to intercept Shahed drones.<\/p>\n
Trump was set to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia with President Vladimir Putin in a phone call.<\/p>\n
Instead, the American leader announced Friday that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons (272,100 tonnes) of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons (453,500 tonnes) in November and one million tons (907,000 tonnes) “immediately thereafter.” Russia will deliver an additional three million tons (2.7 million tonnes) “within a short period of time” after that, he wrote.<\/p>\n
European allies question U.S.-Russia deal<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s European allies expressed dismay at the deal and said they stood by their commitment to sanctions.<\/p>\n
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Stockholm regretted the agreement, \u201cas energy revenues are central to the Russian war chest,\u201d and noted that the European Union would adopt its most comprehensive sanctions package yet on Monday, with 1,600 listings targeting Russia\u2019s military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n
The German government “remains committed to the sanctions imposed on Russia and is working with its European partners on further sanctions,” spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said, adding that support for Ukraine “remains unwavering.\u201d <\/p>\n
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski questioned whether Russia could deliver at all. Citing his embassy\u2019s reports of fuel shortages even in Moscow, and \u201cserious sources\u201d saying Ukraine has damaged about half of Russia\u2019s refining capacity, he asked on X: \u201cSo where will the surpluses for export come from?\u201d <\/p>\n
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War in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate, says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/p>\n
A Russian bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed at least 33 people, authorities said Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is warning that the war could escalate to a broader regional conflict involving NATO countries.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s shocking announcement was in stark contrast to a sweeping Russia sanctions law he signed last month that aimed at clamping down on the oil and gas revenues that fuel Russia’s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
In a lengthy post online reacting to the deal on Friday, Zelenskyy said Russia would repay it “with further terror and perfidy.” He framed it as an investment in the war that could prolong it.<\/p>\n
“It plays into Russia\u2019s hands \u2014 allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer, have even less respect for America, and inflict even greater losses and damage on the world,” he said.<\/p>\n
According to a statement released by the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, Zelenskyy called it “a weak decision, unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partners.”<\/p>\n
Trump announced the deal as his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian officials in Miami to discuss a proposal to end the war.<\/p>\n
“I believe our team is simply being used as a smoke screen. And that is certainly not fair. It is certainly not how partners should treat each other,” Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump says it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting current Ukrainian President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-928202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}