Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices
- On Friday, President Donald Trump announced a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, reversing years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war in Ukraine and attempting to lower fuel prices before midterm elections.
- The agreement contradicts a sweeping Russia sanctions law Trump signed last month that aimed to restrict oil and gas revenues fueling Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
- Russian aerial bombs struck residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, killing at least 20 people, including three children, one day after the diesel deal announcement.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that the attacks show Moscow interprets 'any easing of pressure' as permission to continue fighting and that export earnings finance weapons and mercenaries.
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson noted energy revenues are 'central to the Russian war chest,' while Trump suggested Ukraine needs a new leader to make a deal.
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On the European side, the British Prime Minister expressed his "total solidarity" to the Ukrainian President "after 24 difficult hours", marked by the agreement between the United States and Russia on diesel.
Zelensky warns that a deal to export Russian diesel would provide Moscow with money to continue the war. Trump accuses the Ukrainian president of obstructing a deal with Moscow.
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US President Donald Trump said Ukraine needs a new president, accusing Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky of not doing enough to end the Russian invasion. Trump also blamed Zelensky for the rise in diesel prices in the United States. “I suggest they elect a new leader who can make a deal, because he could make a lot of deals, but for some reason he never does,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Saturday before leaving for Tennessee.
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who opposes his decision to import Russian diesel fuel, saying that Zelenskyy is not making efforts to end the war and that "a new president is needed." According to the Associated Press and other U.S. media outlets on the 10th, U.S. President Trump said on this day
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