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Zelenskyy Says Trump Is Pushing Ukraine, Not Putin, to Yield

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a weeklong row with the US president.

In an interview with Bloomberg in Kyiv, Zelenskyy also offered a new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to stop targeting Russian refineries, which was aimed at combating high diesel prices, in exchange for deliveries of more Patriot air-defense missiles.

“Now, we have dangerous days ahead…

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