{"id":884492,"date":"2026-10-16T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:44:13","slug":"trump-ukraine-resuming-strikes-on-russian-oil-sites-is-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884492\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Ukraine resuming strikes on Russian oil sites is a \u2018disgrace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> has labeled Ukraine\u2019s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries<\/a> a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d the latest salvo in his campaign to pressure the U.S. ally over rising gas prices that could cost Republicans in next month\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kyiv said Thursday that it would no longer abide by Trump\u2019s \u201cenergy ceasefire,\u201d <\/a>citing Russia\u2019s refusal to halt its own attacks on Ukraine\u2019s power grid. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the U.S. of costing civilian lives by striking deals with Moscow and withdrawing support that is crucial to Kyiv\u2019s defense against the invasion launched by President Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials had raised alarm after gaps in intelligence sharing left Kyiv vulnerable to Russian attacks and restrictions on the Starlink satellite service disrupted military operations. Zelenskyy said Friday that the technology was still not fully restored. <\/p>\n

With Ukraine defying his demands to halt strikes, Trump responded late Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you tell me that Zelenskyy is again shooting at refineries, all he\u2019s doing is making the world oil price higher,\u201d Trump told Newsmax\u2019s Rob Finnerty. \u201cI think that\u2019s a disgrace. There\u2019s plenty of other targets; they don\u2019t have to hit,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cZelenskyy is not a good guy for us to deal with\u201d on the war, he said, adding that \u201cI think they actually both would like to see it end, but I think I find Zelenskyy to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

As his clash escalated with Trump, Zelenskyy was in Brussels on Friday to shore up support from European allies, whom he called \u201creal leaders\u201d as they gathered for a crucial summit.<\/p>\n

\"VolodymyrUkrainian President Zelenskyy in Brussels on Friday.Geert Vanden Wijngaert \/ AP<\/p>\n

Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery Thursday after Zelenskyy said he was \u201cdone\u201d with the truce, which Trump had announced to the apparent surprise of both sides in the war. Neither Moscow nor Kyiv reported any new strikes on Russian refineries Friday. <\/p>\n

Trump has sought to blame Ukraine\u2019s strikes for destabilizing the price of diesel globally, despite the impact of his own war with Iran<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But this campaign of attacks deep inside enemy territory has given Ukraine crucial leverage, sparking a major fuel crisis inside Russia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kyiv hoped this would give it a stronger hand at the negotiating table, but as Washington pushes for an end to the conflict it has taken a series of steps that have caused surprise and alarm among Ukraine and its backers in Europe.<\/p>\n

\"Image:Fires at an oil refinery in Moscow following a reported Ukrainian drone strike, on Sept. 20.Reuters<\/p>\n

Last week, Trump announced a deal to buy diesel from Russia,<\/a> an apparent attempt to relieve pressure at the pump for American consumers ahead of the midterm elections<\/a> but which reversed years of U.S. policy. Trump then called for Kyiv to stop all strikes on Russian oil infrastructure and said Zelenskyy had to be replaced as Ukraine\u2019s leader. <\/p>\n

It comes amid mounting questions about whether the U.S. is still sharing critical military intelligence with Ukraine after a pair of major strikes earlier this week that Kyiv said came without a usual advance warning from its partners.<\/p>\n

Ukraine also reported a slowing down of the Starlink satellite terminals<\/a>, which are critical for its army\u2019s communications, drone missions and aerial defenses. <\/p>\n

Kyiv said that Starshield, the military version of the technology that is used by Ukraine\u2019s troops, had been limited without any warning. <\/p>\n

SpaceX chief Elon Musk, the billionaire Trump ally, said that such decisions were up to the U.S. military and ultimately Trump. <\/p>\n

After repeated requests for comment about Musk\u2019s statement, a senior U.S. official told NBC News that \u201cno such request was ever made by the president.\u201d Trump has also denied restricting military intelligence for Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Kyiv said Thursday the Starshield service was being restored, but the episode only added to the mounting suspicion in Ukraine that the U.S. was willing to cut it off from battlefield support in order to exert pressure for a peace deal. Asked about the service on Friday, Zelenskyy said that issues were ongoing. \u201cHas the speed been fully restored to what it was? No. Is the speed returning? Yes,\u201d he told reporters in Brussels.<\/p>\n

European and Ukrainian officials told NBC News they believed that the moves, coming only days after Trump eased sanctions on Russia\u2019s diesel exports and railed against Zelenskyy, were most likely aimed at pressuring Kyiv into making concessions at the negotiating table amid the stalemate in peace talks.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin agreed with Trump on Friday, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying it was clear that \u201cZelenskyy doesn\u2019t want to take responsibility and move toward a peaceful resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia has always stated it\u2019s open to a peace settlement but only on its own hard-line terms, which would see Ukraine ceding significant territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has labeled Ukraine\u2019s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d the latest salvo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-884492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}