Ukraine
war briefing: Trump and Zelenskyy’s public tussle over Russian fuel deal
worsens
Zelenskyy
has ‘support of the people’, says Ukraine’s foreign minister after Trump calls
for ‘new leader’. What we know on day 1,691
Guardian
staff and agencies
Sun 11
Oct 2026 02.47 BST
Ukraine’s
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.
“He has the support of the Ukrainian people, and they have the right to
decide,” Andriy Sybiga said on Saturday. “Statements from abroad only confirm
that he is doing his job well. He deserves support.” Earlier, Trump
said Ukraine needed “a new leader” a day after the US president struck
a deal allowing Russia to supply diesel to global markets, and as Moscow
launched strikes on Ukrainian civilians, killing 20 people including three
children.
- Trump on Saturday also called on Zelenskyy to stop hitting Russian oil refineries, saying: “He better damn well stop.” Trump made the comments to
reporters at the White House. Zelenskyy on Friday had reacted furiously to
Trump’s deal with Putin, calling
it “terrible” and “not fair and not honest”.
- 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. “Russia
would like to make a deal … but for whatever reason, Zelenskyy does not
want to make a deal,” Trump told reporters. “President Putin would like to
see a settlement, strongly,” Trump said of a phone conversation he had
with the Russian leader on Friday.
- The British prime minister, Andy
Burnham, has moved to quickly back Zelenskyy, telling his Ukrainian
counterpart they were in “complete solidarity”. In a call between the two
leaders, Burnham told Zelenskyy he recognised that “the past 24 hours had
been difficult for Ukraine and reiterated his complete solidarity”,
according to a Downing Street readout. The leaders discussed “the
importance of maintaining pressure on Russia”, with Burnham making it
clear the UK “would continue to strengthen its sanctions on Russia and to
take further action to constrain the Russian war machine”. They agreed to
meet in person in the coming days, the readout added.
- US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have spearheaded efforts to broker a Ukraine peace agreement, may visit Moscow within the next
two weeks, Russian state news reported on Saturday, citing a source.
- A delegation of Ukrainian
officials who visited Miami for talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine
was on Saturday heading home, an aide to Zelenskyy said. “The groups are already on
their way home,” Dmytro Lytvyn, an adviser to the president, told
reporters.
- Vladimir Putin’s top economic
negotiator on Saturday welcomed Trump’s call to replace Zelenskyy,
describing his remarks as “historic”. “President Trump joins the many who believe
that Ukraine needs leadership actually focused on peace,” Kirill Dmitriev,
the Kremlin’s special envoy on economic cooperation, said in a post on X.
- Germany said Saturday it would
continue to push for new EU sanctions against Russia despite Moscow’s
agreement with Washington to release diesel to ease a fuel crunch. “The German government sticks
to its measures sanctioning Russia and is working jointly with its
European partners on new sanctions,” the government spokesperson, Stefan
Kornelius, said in a statement. Germany’s “support for Ukraine in its
struggle to defend itself remains unfailing,” he said. “Diplomatic efforts
for a peaceful solution continue.”
- Russia’s defence ministry said its drones had struck a data-processing centre in Kyiv earlier on Saturday and a cargo ship carrying military supplies to the Ukrainian port of Odesa. In a statement, the ministry
said the Kyiv facility was used by Ukraine’s armed forces to collect, process and store intelligence. The ministry also
said its forces had captured the settlements of Lukashove and Lobanivka in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported. Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
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