WASHINGTON: With the US president's surprise deal on Russian diesel and his call for Volodymyr Zelenskyy to step down, Donald Trump appears to be redirecting the frustrations of his increasingly difficult midterm campaign.

US President Donald Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and blamed Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices. View on euronews

Ukraine suspended elections after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 and the introduction of martial law. Zelensky’s five-year presidential term, which began in 2019, reached its scheduled endpoint in 2024 without a new presidential vote.

Russian strikes killed at least 15 people in Ukraine, a day after President Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Ukraine has accused Russia of striking a power plant in Kyiv after Donald Trump announced an 'energy ceasefire' between the warring countries.

Ukraine really fucked off Russia over the weekend — right in the middle of President Deals’s new deal with Russia! — by making a third direct hit on a Yandex data center, which is Russia’s equivalent of the Googling machine. And then some people started saying that they weren’t getting hassled by Nazi accounts any more: