The disclosures follow a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot in Valuyki on Oct. 13, involving over 500 drones and marking the first energy strike since Trump's ceasefire proposal. While Zelenskyy has since proposed meetings in the coming days with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the Kremlin dismissed the truce as having undefined provisions. Dmitri Peskov stated the lack of clarity meant Russia had not violated any agreement while continuing to strike Ukrainian energy sites.
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Zelenskyy Confirms US Threatened Intelligence Cutoff Over Russian Refinery Strikes
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The Trump administration threatened to freeze the PURL weapons mechanism that allows European countries to buy American arms for Kyiv if attacks on Russian oil infrastructure continued, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NPR. Zelenskyy said Washington warned his generals that intelligence sharing would also be severed, though Donald Trump maintains that these intelligence flows are still active. Zelenskyy added that he was personally unaware of an energy ceasefire Trump had previously announced between Russia and Ukraine.
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