{"id":50640,"date":"2026-10-10T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/ukraine-hit-by-deadly-russian-strikes-as-thanks-for-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:40:24","slug":"ukraine-hit-by-deadly-russian-strikes-as-thanks-for-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/ukraine-hit-by-deadly-russian-strikes-as-thanks-for-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine hit by deadly Russian strikes as \u2018thanks\u2019 for Trump diesel deal, Zelenskyy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president says money from fuel sales will intensify war as European leaders reiterate support for Kyiv<\/p>\n<p>Russia launched deadly strikes on civilians in Ukraine as \u201cthanks\u201d for a deal cut by Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, accusing Washington of helping fund Moscow\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president has expressed repeated outrage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/09\/trump-putin-russian-diesel-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agreement announced by Trump<\/a> on Friday, which the US president said was needed to reduce diesel prices, and comes ahead of November midterm elections where the cost of fuel is a key voter issue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/10\/ukraine-russia-strikes-war-trump-diesel-deal-zelenskyy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president says money from fuel sales will intensify war as European leaders reiterate support for Kyiv Russia launched deadly strikes on civilians in Ukraine as \u201cthanks\u201d for a deal cut by Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, accusing Washington of helping fund Moscow\u2019s war. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}