Trump cannot get Putin to halt strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, so he blames Ukraine instead, Zelenskyy says
Before that, US officials had cut Kyiv off from US intelligence and lowered a speed cap on Starlink to pressure Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused US President Donald Trump of blaming him for failing to halt Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. The issue arose after Russia launched a record four waves of ballistic missile attacks. Initially, Putin rejected Trump's ceasefire proposal, and subsequently, Trump shifted the blame onto Zelenskyy, claiming rising global fuel prices were his fault, which is inaccurate.
Zelenskyy explained that the actual driver of higher prices is the blocked Strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint, not Ukraine's refinery campaign. He also noted that the amounts of diesel allowed by the US are insufficient to lower global oil prices. Despite this, Zelenskyy maintains a working relationship with Trump, who he believes is misrepresenting the context and turning himself into the villain in Russia's war.
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