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1690th day. Trump is threatening to cut off Ukraine's access to intelligence data due to attacks on Russian refineries, Axios writes. Negotiations between Washington and Kyiv in Miami ended ahead of schedule due to the Russia-US diesel deal
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US President Donald Trump decided to strike a deal with Russia on diesel fuel supplies after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky ignored several requests from Washington to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries, a US official familiar with the situation told Axios.
“Zelensky incorrectly assesses the situation. By continuing to strike at refineries, he undermines the trust that he has built in relations with Trump over the past six months,” the publication’s source said.
According to him, the American president insisted that Ukraine unilaterally stop attacks on Russian refineries, since these attacks, according to Trump, led to an increase in fuel prices in the United States. Zelensky informed Trump and his negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, that Kyiv was ready to stop attacks on refineries if Russia stopped attacking Ukrainian energy. At the same time, Trump did not consider the attacks on the refinery to be equivalent to Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy system, the American official noted.
During US negotiations with the Ukrainian delegation, which took place on October 9 in Miami (they also included representatives of European countries), Witkoff and Kushner announced that Trump plans to talk with Vladimir Putin and lift sanctions on Russian diesel fuel exports.
Witkoff and Kushner also told the Ukrainian delegation that Trump could stop providing intelligence to Ukraine if Ukraine continues to ignore Trump's demand to stop attacks on refineries. A Ukrainian official told Axios about this. The American official denies that such a threat was made. He said Witkoff and Kushner told the Ukrainian delegation that the United States is a reliable partner in supplying ammunition and intelligence, so Ukraine should not take actions that harm American consumers.
At the negotiations in Miami, security guarantees that the United States, Europe and NATO could provide to Ukraine as part of an agreement to end the war were discussed, as well as new proposals for resolving territorial issues (Axios’s source did not specify what exactly the new proposals were). Witkoff and Kushner presented a plan for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, the parties discussed the “road map” for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and the format of the country’s relations with NATO after the end of the war.
Negotiations between delegations from Ukraine, Europe and the United States in Miami ended earlier than planned, says Radio Liberty correspondent in Washington Alex Raufoglu. “There won’t be a second day,” he wrote on social network X. It was previously assumed that the negotiations would continue for two days: October 9 and 10.
On October 9, Trump telephoned Putin, after which he announced that Russia and the United States had agreed on the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the American and world markets. The US Treasury has already issued a temporary license allowing the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the world market, bypassing US sanctions, until April 7, 2027. Ukraine criticized the diesel deal between Moscow and Washington. Zelensky said that allowing Russia to sell petroleum products “is an investment in war.”
War in photographs. Consequences of the Russian attack on Zaporozhye
On the morning of October 10, Russian troops attacked Zaporozhye with guided bombs. According to the latest data , 17 people died, including three children. Another 16 people were injured. Two victims are in serious condition. The fate of six more people remains unknown. Local authorities said that residential buildings in the city were hit.
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Kira (Ulyanovsk) . Last week I walked past children playing in the yard. They look about six or seven years old. I hear them talking:
— I see a drone, it’s flying towards your house. W-w-w-w-w-w-w...
- Sirens, sirens! Everyone run, hide! Uiii-uuuuuuuuuuu...
- Bah-bahhh (imitate the sound of an explosion).
- Call an ambulance, there are dead!
And I felt so creepy... I remember myself in early childhood, we also played “war games”, boys ran with wooden machine guns, girls with white bags with a red cross. Then the 2000s and 2010s came, and it seemed that children would never play such scary games again, and now everything is repeating itself.
But these boys have not seen any other life, since, apparently, they were born in 2019–2020. This is their reality, the reality of our children. It hurts so much, as I write, I want to cry.