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Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices · Best of: Features

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  Trump says Ukraine should get a new president, as he blames Zelensky
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  for US diesel prices Written by Matthew Daly, Susie Bland, and Elise
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  Morton. This article is being read by an automated voice generated by
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  Everlet. Washington, the AP. President Donald Trump said.
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  Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new President suggesting
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  Volodymyr Zelensky has not done enough to end his country's war with
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  Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the US. I
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  suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal, because
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  he could have made many deals, and for some reason he never
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  does, Trump said. The president, who on Friday struck a deal with
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  Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia in an attempt
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  to address high fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections, has
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  been urging Zelensky for weeks to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.
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  He has also sought to blame record US Diesel prices on Ukraine
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  rather than the US led war in Iran, which has elevated world
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  energy prices. He wants to make problems for the world. He wants
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  to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel, Trump
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  said, before departing for Tennessee where he was set to rally Republican
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  voters. Ukrainian and European officials on Saturday reacted to Trump's diesel deal
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  with dismay, saying it will help pay for Russia's war efforts. Diesel
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  prices have skyrocketed due to a collision of events, including the difficulty
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  of getting oil out of the Middle East since the start of
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  the Iran War, which has raised the price of all oil products.
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  An Associated Press NORKS Center for Public Affairs research poll conducted last
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  month and published October first found that Americans disapprove of Trump's handling
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  of Iran and blame him for higher prices. Trump also suggested that
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  if he had been US president in twenty twenty two, that war
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  would have never started. There was no reason that war with Ukraine
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  and Russia started. It started due to incompetence. Zelensky has lost thirty
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  percent of your country, and you've had over a million people go
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  between the two of them, over two million people killed. That's a
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  war that should have never started, and I think it's time for
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  Ukraine to get a new president, Trump said. Independent estimates are that
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  about twenty percent of Ukraine's territory is under Russian control. British Defence
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  officials recently estimated that about half a million Russian soldiers have been
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  killed in the war. There are no reliable recent estimates about how
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  many Ukrainians have died. Twenty people killed in Russian bombing in Ukraine
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  Saturday. Trump's extraordinary intervention came after Russian strikes killed at least twenty
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  people in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. Three children
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  were among those killed when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings in
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  Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Saturday At least eighteen people were
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  wounded. Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long range aerial war
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  while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than
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  four and a half years since Moscow's full scale invasion. Ukraine is
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  struggling to counter escalating Russia bombardments that have killed more than sixty
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  people over the past four days. Anger and Kyiv at Trump's deal
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  with Putin. Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions
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  on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in
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  Zaporizh. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote Saturday on X. He said every
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  additional billion dollars Russia earns from exports would help pay for weapons
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  components, drone upgrades, missile production, and the recruitment of mercenaries, and that
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  Moscow would only be ready to stop when its ability to fight
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  diminished. Zelensky said Ukraine was coordinating steps to counter the extra revenue
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  Russia will receive, and that He had spoken to French President Emmanuel
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  Macron about shoring up air defenses, warning of an increased risk of
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  further missile strikes in the coming days. Trump announced Friday that Russia
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  will immediately supply more than three hundred thousand tons of diesel, followed
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  by an additional five hundred thousand tons in November and one million
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  tons immediately thereafter. Russia will deliver an additional three million tons within
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  a short period of time. After that, he wrote In Kiev, people
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  gathered at a memorial to fallen soldiers on Independence Square greeted the
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  deal with a mix of anger and resignation. Trump has once again
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  shown his true face, said Oleksandr Petrenko twenty six. He didn't care
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  about the situation, the shelling or the destruction of our homes. All
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  he's interested in is oil or the fuel prices and how much
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  Americans have to pay. For Oksana Yakunina, a financial advisor from the
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  central city of Kropivnitsky, the announcement didn't really come as a surprise.
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  Trump has been working with Putin for a long time, she told
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  the Associated Press. European allies question US Russia deal. Ukraine's European
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  allies also expressed dismay at the deal, and said they stood by
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  their commitment to sanctions. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Christerson said Stockholm regretted
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  the agreement, as energy revenues are central to the Russia war chest,
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  and noted that the European Union would adopt its most comprehensive sanctions
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  package yet on Monday, with one thousand six hundred listings targeting Russia's
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  military industrial complex. The German government remains committed to the sanctions imposed
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  on Russia and is working with its European partners on further sanctions.
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  Spokesperson Stefan Cornelius said, adding that support for Ukraine remains unwavering. Polish
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  Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorsky questioned whether Russia could deliver at all, citing
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  his embassy's reports of fuel shortages even in Moscow, and serious sources
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  saying Ukraine has damaged about half of Russia's refining capacity, he asked
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  on X, so where will the surpluses for export come from? Trump's
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  announcement was in stark contrast to a sweeping Russia sanctions law he
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  signed last month that aimed at clamping down on the oil and
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  gas revenues that fuel Russia's war against Ukraine. Trump announced the deal
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  as his envoy, Steve Whitkov, and son in law Jared Kushner, met
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  with Ukrainian officials in Miami on Friday to discuss a proposal to
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  end the war. Speaking about Friday's announcement, a senior Ukrainian official told
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  the AP that the Ukrainian side was not aware of the deal
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  before the announcement. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as
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  he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, said Saturday the
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  diesel deal announcement was not tied to anything under discussion in Florida.
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  He confirmed the Ukrainian delegation had left Florida and were on their
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  way back to Ukraine. Daily reported from Washington and Morton reported from
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  London. Associated Press journalist Bella Sandelski in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Colin Binkley
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  in Washington contributed to this report. Follow the AP's coverage of the
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  war in Ukraine at