US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace,” in an interview published Thursday
“Well, I think that’s a disgrace,” Trump told broadcaster Newsmax when asked about Ukraine’s renewed strikes, adding that they were driving up global energy prices.
The 80-year-old US leader took aim at his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, asserting that he was less willing than Russian President Vladimir Putin to reach a compromise to end the war.
“It should end soon. I think they actually both would like to see it end,” Trump said to Newsmax.
“But I think I find Zelensky to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.”
Against the backdrop of weakening ties with Trump, Zelensky met NATO chief Mark Rutte in Brussels and held a string of bilateral meetings with European leaders before he was set to join an EU summit on Friday.
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👉 JOIN GISTSMATE WHATSAPP CHANNELThe Ukrainian president had told The Financial Times that the pause in strikes against Russian refineries was “done” as Moscow was not abiding by ceasefire on hitting energy infrastructure that had been announced by Trump.
In another development, GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Ukrainian attacks on data centres of tech giant Yandex have thrown key facets of Russian daily life into turmoil, disrupting services ranging from email and taxi apps to dating sites and even electronic key fobs for Moscow apartment buildings.
Ukraine has severely damaged three of Yandex’s six data centres in the past week, wreaking havoc in a country whose tech ecosystem is centred around one vast, state-aligned company. Launched as a search engine in 1997, Yandex has become Russia’s answer to Google, Uber, Amazon and OpenAI rolled into one.
Thousands of businesses depend on its infrastructure, meaning the strikes have hit not only Yandex services but reams of unrelated companies. The disruption followed a wave of summer strikes on Russian refineries, which forced millions to queue for hours at petrol stations.
Kyiv said the attacks were in retaliation for Moscow striking Ukraine’s data centres. But the fallout in Russia has been far greater, exposing vulnerabilities created by the Kremlin’s long-term drive to centralise and control the IT sector.
Many of those efforts focused around Yandex, which was forcibly sold in 2024 to investors tied to President Vladimir Putin. READ MORE
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