Zelenskyy offers to halt refinery strikes after Tr...

Summary

• Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Ukraine would stop hitting Russian refineries if Moscow spared its power grid, a day after Trump urged a new leader.
• Trump says Zelenskyy should goSpeaking at the White House on Saturday, Trump said the time had come for Ukraine to choose a new president.
• Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X that Trump had joined many who believed Ukraine needed leaders “focused on peace.”Separately, Zelenskyy has defended the refinery strikes, arguing that Russian oil money pays for the war.

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Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Ukraine would stop hitting Russian refineries if Moscow spared its power grid, a day after Trump urged a new leader.

In a post on X, the Ukrainian president also insisted that Russia alone bore the blame for the war. “It is possible to stop strikes on energy infrastructure as early as today,” he wrote. However, he added, “Putin does not want to do so.”

According to Zelenskyy, any pause must work both ways and come with real guarantees. His offer followed a sharp attack from US President Donald Trump, who blamed him for high diesel prices in America.

Trump says Zelenskyy should go

Speaking at the White House on Saturday, Trump said the time had come for Ukraine to choose a new president. “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” he told reporters.