{"id":373207,"date":"2026-10-14T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373207\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:58:16","slug":"zelensky-says-trump-betrayed-ukraine-with-russian-diesel-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373207\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says Trump betrayed Ukraine with Russian diesel deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warned President Trump Wednesday that he had chosen \u201cthe wrong side\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/09\/us-news\/president-trump-announces-deal-with-putin-to-deliver-russian-diesel-fuel-to-the-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreeing to import diesel fuel from Russia<\/a>, which Zelensky said had handed Russian President Vladimir Putin an \u201ceasy victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s painful when President Trump chooses one side, not our side,\u201d Zelensky told \u201cPiers Morgan Uncensored\u201d. \u201cBut we are okay that he\u2019s in the middle. But if you\u2019re in the middle, you have to stay in the middle. Not on the wrong side. I think his advisers are wrong. I don\u2019t know who is pushing him. Not to the right side, this is not the right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warned President Trump Wednesday that he had chosen \u201cthe wrong side\u201d by agreeing to import diesel fuel from Russia. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump waves on stage at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center in Wasilla, Alaska, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Deineko holds her daughter Mia while standing in front of a multi-story residential building damaged in a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka<\/p>\n<p>In the half-hour interview, Zelensky also accused SpaceX boss Elon Musk of<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/14\/world-news\/ukraine-slams-spacex-for-cutting-starlink-internet-access-while-russians-launch-brutal-attacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> restricting Ukrainian access to the Starlink internet system<\/a>, which Kyiv officials said had disrupted key military operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure they knew what they did, absolutely,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause it was 1 a.m. at night, [when] Starlink was blocked by SpaceX and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about attack. It\u2019s also about defending life,\u201d Zelensky added. \u201cSo <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/14\/world-news\/russian-strikes-kill-3-knock-out-power-for-600k-ukrainians-in-latest-snub-to-trumps-energy-cease-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">people were killed<\/a> because, not enough destroying, not enough interceptors, including interceptors with Starlink, which didn\u2019t work. Of course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warned President Trump Wednesday that he had chosen \u201cthe wrong side\u201d by agreeing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137440,153,9,11,10,87,9045,56699,137441,9046,9047,58,14123],"class_list":["post-373207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-diesel","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-us-news","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}