{"id":50854,"date":"2026-10-17T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trumps-pause-on-russia-sanctions-is-reward-for-putin-zelenskyy-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:44:59","slug":"trumps-pause-on-russia-sanctions-is-reward-for-putin-zelenskyy-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/trumps-pause-on-russia-sanctions-is-reward-for-putin-zelenskyy-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pause on Russia sanctions is \u2018reward\u2019 for Putin, Zelenskyy says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president warns it will embolden Russian leader and intensify war as Moscow hits country\u2019s power plants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/16\/attacks-on-ukraine-power-plants-show-russia-has-given-up-on-military-victory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power plant attacks reflect Russian blueprint to make Ukrainian cities unlivable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/17\/trump-puts-new-russia-sanctions-passed-by-congress-on-hold-amid-deepening-row-with-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s decision to roll back sanctions on Russia<\/a> as a \u201creward\u201d for Vladimir Putin and warned it will embolden the Russian leader and intensify the Kremlin\u2019s war, as Moscow launched one of its worst strikes yet on Ukraine\u2019s power plants in an attempt to black out the country\u2019s cities before winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president also said he expected the Trump administration to lift more sanctions against Russia in the future and called for Europe to establish its own negotiations with Moscow as the US has sought better ties and business deals with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/17\/volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-lift-sanctions-russia-intensify-war-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president warns it will embolden Russian leader and intensify war as Moscow hits country\u2019s power plants Power plant attacks reflect Russian blueprint to make Ukrainian cities unlivable Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described Donald Trump\u2019s decision to roll back sanctions on Russia as a \u201creward\u201d for Vladimir Putin and warned it will embolden the Russian leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 11:19:29","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\/50854","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=50854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}