{"id":798761,"date":"2026-10-11T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:38:14","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-trump-and-zelenskyys-public-tussle-over-russian-fuel-deal-worsens-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798761\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Trump and Zelenskyy\u2019s public tussle over Russian fuel deal worsens | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister says Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the backing of the Ukrainian people and deserves support, after Donald Trump called for Zelenskyy to be replaced as president. \u201cHe has the support of the Ukrainian people, and they have the right to decide,\u201d Andriy Sybiga said on Saturday. \u201cStatements from abroad only confirm that he is doing his job well. He deserves support.\u201d Earlier, Trump said Ukraine needed \u201ca new leader\u201d<\/a> a day after the US president struck a deal \u200ballowing Russia to supply diesel<\/a> to global markets, and as Moscow launched strikes on Ukrainian civilians, killing 20 people including three children.<\/p>\n

Trump on Saturday also called \u2060on Zelenskyy \u2060to stop hitting \u200bRussian \u200coil \u200crefineries, saying: \u201cHe better damn \u200cwell stop.\u201d Trump made the comments to reporters at the White House. Zelenskyy on Friday had reacted furiously to Trump\u2019s deal with Putin, calling it<\/a> \u201cterrible\u201d and \u201cnot fair and not honest\u201d.<\/p>\n

Further ratcheting up the tension, Trump said Vladimir Putin would like to reach a deal on the war with Ukraine, and without evidence accused Zelenskyy of resisting a compromise. \u201cRussia would like to make a deal \u2026 but for whatever reason, Zelenskyy does not want to make a deal,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cPresident Putin would like to see a settlement, strongly,\u201d Trump said of a phone conversation he had with the Russian leader on Friday.<\/p>\n

The British prime minister, Andy Burnham, has moved to quickly back Zelenskyy, telling his Ukrainian counterpart they were in \u201ccomplete solidarity\u201d. In a call between the two leaders, Burnham told Zelenskyy he recognised that \u201cthe past 24 hours had been difficult for Ukraine and reiterated his complete solidarity\u201d, according to a Downing Street readout. The leaders discussed \u201cthe importance of maintaining pressure on Russia\u201d, with Burnham making it clear the UK \u201cwould continue to strengthen its sanctions on Russia and to take further action to constrain the Russian war machine\u201d. They agreed to meet in person in the coming days, the readout added.<\/p>\n

US \u2060negotiators Steve \u2060Witkoff \u2060and Jared Kushner, \u200bwho have \u2060spearheaded efforts to \u2060broker \u200ba \u200cUkraine peace \u200cagreement, \u200cmay visit Moscow within the next \u200ctwo weeks, Russian state \u200bnews \u2060reported \u200bon Saturday, \u200bciting \u200ba source.<\/p>\n

A delegation of Ukrainian officials who visited Miami for talks on ending Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine was on Saturday heading home, an aide to Zelenskyy said. \u201cThe groups are already on their way home,\u201d Dmytro Lytvyn, an adviser to the president, told reporters.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin\u2019s top economic negotiator on Saturday welcomed Trump\u2019s call to replace Zelenskyy, describing his remarks as \u201chistoric\u201d. \u201cPresident Trump joins the many who believe that Ukraine needs leadership actually focused on peace,\u201d Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin\u2019s special envoy on economic cooperation, said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

Germany said Saturday it would continue to push for new EU sanctions against Russia despite Moscow\u2019s agreement with Washington to release diesel to ease a fuel crunch. \u201cThe German government sticks to its measures sanctioning Russia and is working jointly with its European partners on new sanctions,\u201d the government spokesperson, Stefan Kornelius, said in a statement. Germany\u2019s \u201csupport for Ukraine in its struggle to defend itself remains unfailing,\u201d he said. \u201cDiplomatic efforts for a peaceful solution continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s defence \u2060ministry said its drones \u2060had \u2060struck a \u200bdata-processing centre in \u2060Kyiv earlier on Saturday and a \u2060cargo \u200bship \u200ccarrying military \u200csupplies to \u200cthe Ukrainian port of Odesa. In a statement, the ministry said \u200cthe Kyiv facility was \u200bused by Ukraine\u2019s armed forces to \u2060collect, process and \u200bstore intelligence. The \u2060ministry \u2060also said \u200b\u2060its forces \u2060had \u200bcaptured \u200cthe \u200csettlements of Lukashove \u200cand Lobanivka in Ukraine\u2019s \u200cKharkiv region, Russia\u2019s Interfax \u200bnews agency \u2060reported. Reuters could \u200bnot \u200bindependently \u200bverify \u200bthe reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister says Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the backing of the Ukrainian people and deserves support, after Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-798761","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}