The US has resumed sharing intelligence with Kyiv about Russian missile strikes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday after a meeting with the US envoy Steve Witkoff in Norway.
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Zelenskyy → resume → Norway
Zelenskyy said Ukraine was again receiving advance warnings of ballistic missile attacks, which were seemingly suspended last week by the White House.
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which → say → House
“Now it works.
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it → work → ?
It’s great,” he said, saying the US move would save lives.
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move → ’ → lives
He added: “It’s very important for our people, for children, adults, civilians, because we can hear when ballistic [missiles] is coming.
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missiles → add → children
The talks in Oslo took place amid the worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.
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talks → take → invasion
Donald Trump has bitterly accused Zelenskyy of failing to end the war and has said Ukraine needs a new leader.
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Ukraine → accuse → leader
Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner joined Witkoff and Zelenskyy by video.
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son → join → video
Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, also took part, alongside EU and British security officials.
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minister → take → officials
Zelenskyy said he had held a “positive” phone call earlier with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
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he → say → state
Asked if Ukraine was now losing the war, after recent hostile US actions, Zelenskyy replied: “Of course we are not losing.
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we → ask → actions
But we are losing people because of Russian attacks and time.
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we → lose → attacks
It’s a pity.”
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It → ’ → ?
He said he had raised with Rubio restrictions imposed last week on Starshield, the military-grade version of Elon Musk’s Space X’s satellite internet service.
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he → say → service
The slowdown has crippled Ukraine’s ability to launch mid-range drone strikes on Russian battlefield positions.
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slowdown → cripple → positions
Zelenskyy said he had offered to stop Ukraine’s long-range attacks on Russian oil refineries – a key Trump demand – if the US provides Kyiv with Patriot missile interceptors.
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US → say → interceptors
The Pentagon has blocked the delivery of Patriots to Kyiv paid for by other countries, leaving Kyiv more vulnerable than ever to air attacks.
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Pentagon → block → attacks
Speaking on Tuesday, Zelenskyy also said he opposed a trilateral summit floated by Putin, which would see the Russian leader, Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, meet next month to strike a Ukraine deal.
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leader → speak → deal
Zelenskyy would be shut out, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Journal → shut → ?
“There can be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in Oslo.
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Zelenskyy → say → Oslo
He added: “If it’s about Ukraine and our future it can only be acceptable when we are at the table of negotiations.”
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we → add → negotiations
The Washington-Kyiv crisis began 10 days ago when Trump announced he was lifting US sanctions on Russian diesel, in an attempt to lower fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections.
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he → begin → elections
He then announced an energy ceasefire, which Kyiv implemented for several days but Russia ignored.
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Russia → announce → days
Despite this, Trump has bitterly rounded on Zelenskyy.
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Trump → round → Zelenskyy
He has effectively positioned the US as Russia’s ally, favouring Moscow over Kyiv, to the dismay of America’s pro-Ukrainian European and British backers.
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He → position → backers
The US’s peace proposals have largely echoed Russia’s maximalist demands.
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proposals → echo → demands
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, on Tuesday questioned whether US negotiators have been honest brokers in the peace efforts.
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negotiators → question → efforts
Witkoff has held numerous meetings with Putin in Moscow, while so far visiting Kyiv only once.
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Witkoff → hold → Kyiv
“Although American negotiators have been trying to push Ukraine into surrender for … one and a half years now,” Ukraine has not surrendered on Putin’s terms “because Europe has been supporting Ukraine,” Kallas said.
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Kallas → try → Ukraine
Tuesday’s talks came after Zelenskyy told a bipartisan group of US politicians that he believes “some political decision has been made to slow down … support for us.”
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decision → come → us
US officials have denied this but have failed to explain convincingly why Starlink has been curtailed or intelligence sharing temporarily cut off.
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sharing → deny → this
Speaking to reporters in India, Rubio insisted nothing had changed.
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nothing → speak → India
He said Patriot interceptors were in short supply, and were needed in other parts of the world, as well as for the US’s own defence.
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interceptors → say → defence
“There has not been some deliberate political directive to go out and harm Ukraine,” he insisted.
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he → go → Ukraine
At least nine people were killed in Ukraine on Tuesday.
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people → kill → Tuesday
They included passengers who were travelling on the Kyiv Odesa highway.
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who → include → highway
A Russian drone struck two vehicles, killing three people and injuring four.
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drone → strike → four
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