Trump calls for replacing Ukraine's Zelenskiy in tussle over diesel deal with Russia
US President Donald Trump on Saturday called for Ukraine to replace its leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and railed against Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, a day after announcing a diesel supply deal with Russia that had drawn a sharp rebuke from Zelenskiy. In some of his harshest criticism yet of the White House, Zelenskiy linked the US lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel with a…
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump urged Ukraine to replace its current leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, following a series of attacks on Russian oil infrastructure by Ukraine. The calls for a new president came in response to a diesel supply deal Trump had announced earlier in the day with Russia, which Zelenskiy harshly criticized.
Zelenskiy linked the lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel with a Russian attack that killed 20 people, including three children, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia city. The surge in global diesel prices, driven by the Iran war in February, is a political issue for Trump's Republican Party ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Zelenskiy alleged that Trump's diesel deal with Russia was emboldening Moscow, while the Ukrainian president called for more pressure on Russia to negotiate an end to the four-and-a-half-year conflict.
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