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Relations between the leaders have been strained before, including during a meeting at the White House in February 2025.
The rapidly developing conflict between Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump has become the most serious since their skirmish in the White House in 2025, the Guardian newspaper writes.
As the publication notes, the deterioration of relations between Washington and Kiev began on Friday after Trump announced an agreement had been reached on the supply of diesel fuel from Russia. After this, according to the Guardian, the conflict between Zelensky and Trump continued to develop rapidly. On Sunday, Trump said Zelensky should hold elections in Ukraine. He also accused Zelensky of creating problems for the whole world.
“This heated public spat was the most serious between the United States and Ukraine since last year, when Trump chastised Zelensky in the Oval Office,” the publication writes.
On February 28, 2025, Trump reprimanded Zelensky at the White House when he arrived to sign an agreement on the joint development of Ukrainian subsoil.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji. The parties discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf, Syria and Palestine, focusing on Israeli actions preventing the creation of a Palestinian state.

The Russian sailor, who was part of the crew of the Sea Owl I tanker detained in March, left Sweden after the completion of the contract. At the moment, there are no Russian citizens on board the ship; the crew consists of Georgian citizens.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji discussed the prospects for maintaining UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon after 2026.

The European Union has imposed sanctions against 1,569 Russian individuals and organizations associated with the military-industrial complex. The list includes 826 legal entities and 743 individuals, including shipbuilding, aviation and space industry enterprises. The restrictions came into force on October 12.

Swedish authorities have released the tanker Sea Owl 1, which was detained in March. The Russian Ambassador to Stockholm, Sergei Belyaev, said that this confirms that there are no compelling reasons to seize the ship.

Europe may provoke Ukraine to take steps that will interfere with the implementation of agreements between Russia and the United States, said Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.