{"id":808896,"date":"2026-10-20T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808896\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:16:10","slug":"ukraine-live-updates-zelensky-says-intelligence-sharing-on-russian-strikes-works-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808896\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine live updates: Zelensky says intelligence sharing on Russian strikes &#8216;works now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky due to speak after talks with US special envoy Witkoffpublished at 17:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>17:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zelensky hugs Witkoff ahead of their meetings\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/add17ce0-e6f7-4bdb-962c-13f83a1d63e5.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US special envoy Steve Witkoff hugged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the Oslo talks began<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump&#8217;s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, have met in Oslo today during what has been described as &#8220;a critical time for Ukraine&#8221; by Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St\u00f8re said Zelensky requested Norway and Finland to organise talks between European allies and the US after relations between Kyiv and Washington began to sour in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump said earlier this month it&#8217;s time for Ukraine to get a new president following Zelensky&#8217;s criticism of a US diesel deal with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio today rejected as &#8220;scandalous&#8221; accusations that Ukrainians were dying because the US was withholding intelligence from Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St\u00f8re said the aim of the Oslo talks was to steer relations towards &#8220;a more constructive path&#8221;, while Zelensky said earlier he had a &#8220;constructive discussion&#8221; with Rubio about the need for US early warnings, missile interceptors and SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;re expecting to hear from President Zelensky, PM St\u00f8re and Finnish President Alexander Stubb later, so stick with us as we bring you the key updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelensky due to speak after talks with US special envoy Witkoffpublished at 17:54 BST 17:54 BST Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-808896","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\/808896","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=808896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}