Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of attempting to stress Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a weeklong row with the U.S. president.
Zelenskyy additionally provided a brand new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to cease concentrating on Russian refineries, which was aimed toward combating excessive diesel costs, in trade for deliveries of extra Patriot air-defense missiles.
“Now, we now have harmful days forward of the elections,” Zelenskyy stated, referring to the Nov. 3 midterms within the U.S. “My newest mannequin was: We don’t goal Russian diesel, you give us missiles for Patriot techniques to guard our services. However they only need us to cease attacking diesel. And if we strike that, they are going to disconnect us from one thing.”
