{"id":940218,"date":"2026-10-20T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940218\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:02:19","slug":"zelenskyy-to-meet-witkoff-in-norway-as-tensions-with-trump-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940218\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy to meet Witkoff in Norway as tensions with Trump rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a press conference with Taoiseach Micheal Martin at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture date: Thursday July 23, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Niall Carson &#8211; Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> is set to meet with U.S. special envoys on Tuesday after U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> aimed a fresh spate of criticism at the wartime leader. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/no\/aktuelt\/witkoff-og-kushner-deltar-pa-samtaler-i-oslo\/id3179077\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zelenskyy will arrive in Norway on Tuesday<\/a> and meet with the country&#8217;s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr and President of Finland Alexander Stubb in Oslo later in the day. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will also take part in the discussions. <\/p>\n<p>The meetings come as tensions mount between Zelenskyy and Trump, while the U.S. has recently eased some pressure on Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine requested that Witkoff and Kushner join the meeting in Oslo, Norway, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diplomatic efforts have previously taken place in several countries, and Norway and Finland are pleased to be able to continue this work. The aim is to put diplomatic efforts on a more constructive path,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to criticism on Monday that he waived sanctions against Russia recently and is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/europe\/100000011215483\/zelensky-trump-russia-energy-strikes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;wrong side&#8221; of history<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/108433887-17924390201792439018-49105244908-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Trump on Putin-Xi summit without Zelenskyy: I would do anything to stop the war\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zelenskyy doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/19\/trump-putin-xi-zelenskyy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump said to reporters<\/a> outside the White House. &#8220;Zelenskyy is a man that should have had this war settled a long time ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine,&#8221; Trump said, echoing previous calls for a &#8220;new president&#8221; in Kyiv.\u00a0&#8220;If he would have listened to me, he would have made a much better deal a long time ago, and he&#8217;d have a million people living from his side.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Trump also said he would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping to figure out how to end the Ukraine war, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia\/putin-floats-a-summit-with-trump-and-xi-to-decide-ukraines-fate-1cf6acc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> could exclude Zelenskyy. &#8220;Anything I can do to end the war, whether somebody&#8217;s there or not,&#8221; Trump said. <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"headline0\"\/>Starshield complications<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Zelenskyy hit out at the U.S. government over restrictions on access to satellite services offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SPCX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a>&#8216;s military satellite system, Starshield, which is critical to Ukraine&#8217;s defense against Russian strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No explanation for either of these issues has been provided to Ukraine by the American side,&#8221; Zelenskyy said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had shifted the blame to the U.S. government and Trump, who he said are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/15\/elon-musk-starlink-ukraine-trump-energy-ceasefire.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;ultimately&#8221; responsible<\/a> for any slowdowns. Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/clip\/news-conference\/secy-of-state-marco-rubio-denies-us-is-behind-starlink-disruptions-in-ukraine\/5209163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denied<\/a> that the U.S. is responsible, and Treasury Secretary Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/18\/bessent-zelenskyy-starlink-ukarine-war.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bessent told Zelenskyy<\/a> to be &#8220;very careful about making statements like this that aren&#8217;t true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Monday that he doesn&#8217;t know who restricted the Starlink service in Ukraine, &#8220;but I&#8217;d like to find out.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#8217;s Russia-Ukraine coverage:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Kevin Breuninger has contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a press conference with Taoiseach Micheal Martin at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4615,45,161,1377,1376,250,13626,24744,43,90820,44,106595,714,17276,177879,41,39,42,40,10612,772,19309,47516,9671],"class_list":["post-940218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-and-politics","tag-headlines","tag-jared-kushner","tag-news","tag-oslo","tag-politics","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-steve-witkoff","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940218","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=940218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}