Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump threatens to cut off intelligence to Kyiv for striking Russian oil hubs

Donald Trump threatened to cut Kyiv off from US intelligence during a row over Ukraine’s targeting of Russian oil hubs, according to reports.

US officials said Mr Trump’s deal with Russia allowing Moscow to provide Washington with diesel came after “repeated” US requests to Kyiv to halt bombing Russia’s oil refineries. The agreement was announced on Friday during talks between the US and Kyiv in Miami in a move that Volodymyr Zelensky said had “blindsided” him.

Ukrainian officials have since accused the US of threatening to cut them off from American intelligence if they did not comply with the requests. The US has denied these claims.

Mr Trump announced that Moscow would supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the US following a “highly successful” discussion between leaders on Friday.

But Mr Zelensky said the move was a “gift to Putin”.

Donald Trump last month ordered Ukraine to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure, saying the attacks were causing a shortage of the fuel that is “hurting the world”. Fallout from the US war with Iran has also driven up the cost of diesel in recent months.

US officials threatened to cut Kyiv off from US intelligence if it did not agree to halt bombing Russian oil refineries, it has been reported. Ukrainian officials claimed the threat was made during talks between the two countries on Friday.

Four civilians were killed and five others were wounded as a result of Ukrainian attacks on the Russian-controlled Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, the region's Russian-installed governor Leonid Pasechnik said on Saturday.

A conversation between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call, Russian news agency Interfax quoted a Kremlin aide as saying. During the call on Friday, the presidents agreed that Russia would supply diesel to the US and global markets to lower fuel prices, prompting an unexpected temporary easing of US sanctions on Russian fuel that has dismayed Ukraine. The Kremlin said most of the conversation focused on efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine. Putin also downplayed the likelihood of three-way peace talks resuming soon. Interfax cited Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov on Saturday as saying the conversation lasted an hour and a half.

Germany will maintain sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine following US President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration had temporarily lifted US sanctions on Russian fuel, the government has said. "The federal government has taken note of the US decision relating to Russian diesel deliveries," government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius announced in a statement. He said Germany's position remained clear: "The federal government remains committed to the decisions on sanctions against Russia and is working with its European partners on further sanctions."

Volodymyr Zelensky has hit a Russian oil hub just hours after US president Donald Trump announced he had struck a deal with Moscow over diesel. Shortly after, Kyiv reportedly hit the key Yug Rusi oil-loading terminal in Rostov-on-Don.

A large fire broke out at an oil-loading terminal in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don overnight on 9-10 October amid reports of a drone attack, according to The Kyiv Independent. The independent Russian outlet ASTRA identified the burning facility as the Yug Rusi oil-loading terminal, which handles petroleum products for export, including shipments from the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery.

The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces had captured the settlements of Lukashove and Lobanivka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.