The US has resumed sharing intelligence with Ukraine about Russian missile strikes, Zelenskyy said Tuesday after meeting US envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo, Norway. Kyiv is again receiving advance warnings of ballistic missile attacks that the White House seemed to suspend last week. “Now it works. It’s great,” Zelenskyy said, adding that the US move would save lives.

“It’s very important for our people, for children, adults, civilians, because we can hear when ballistic [missiles] is coming. So we are thankful to the American side,” Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy said he had raised with Rubio restrictions imposed the previous week on Starshield, the military-grade version of Elon Musk’s satellite internet service. The Guardian reported: “The slowdown has crippled Ukraine’s ability to launch mid-range drone strikes on Russian battlefield positions.”

Before the Oslo talks, Zelenskyy had told a bipartisan group of US politicians that he believed “some political decision has been made to slow down … support for us.” US officials denied his account. The Guardian said the officials “have failed to explain convincingly why satellite communication services were curtailed or intelligence sharing temporarily cut off.”

Speaking to reporters in India, Rubio insisted nothing had changed. He said Patriot interceptors were in short supply and were needed in other parts of the world, as well as for the US’s own defence. “There has not been some deliberate political directive to go out and harm Ukraine,” he said.

Zelenskyy also said he had offered to stop Ukraine’s long-range attacks on Russian oil refineries — a key Trump demand — if the US provided Kyiv with Patriot missile interceptors. The Pentagon blocked delivery of Patriots to Kyiv paid for by other countries. The Guardian said the block left Kyiv “more vulnerable than ever to air attacks.”

The Oslo talks involved Zelenskyy and Witkoff. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner joined Witkoff and Zelenskyy by video. Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, took part alongside EU and British security officials. Zelenskyy said he had held a “positive” phone call earlier with Rubio.

The Guardian wrote: “The talks in Oslo took place amid the worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.” The same report said Trump had accused Zelenskyy of failing to end the war and had said Ukraine needed a new leader.

Asked whether Ukraine was losing the war after recent US actions, Zelenskyy replied: “Of course we are not losing. But we are losing people because of Russian attacks and time. It’s a pity.”

Zelenskyy said he opposed a trilateral summit floated by Putin that would bring the Russian leader, Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, together next month to strike a Ukraine deal. The Wall Street Journal reported that Zelenskyy would be shut out. “There can be nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said in Oslo. He added: “If it’s about Ukraine and our future it can only be acceptable when we are at the table of negotiations.”

The Guardian wrote: “The Washington-Kyiv crisis began 10 days ago when Trump announced he was lifting US sanctions on Russian diesel, in an attempt to lower fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections.” Trump then announced an energy ceasefire, which Kyiv implemented for several days but Russia ignored.

The Guardian wrote: “Despite this, Trump has bitterly rounded on Zelenskyy. He has effectively positioned the US as Russia’s ally, favouring Moscow over Kyiv, to the dismay of America’s pro-Ukrainian European and British backers. The US’s peace proposals have largely echoed Russia’s maximalist demands.”

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, questioned Tuesday whether US negotiators had been “honest brokers” in the peace efforts. The Guardian reported that “Witkoff has held numerous meetings with Putin in Moscow, while so far visiting Kyiv only once.” Kallas said: “Although American negotiators have been trying to push Ukraine into surrender for … one and a half years now,” Ukraine has not surrendered on Putin’s terms “because Europe has been supporting Ukraine.”

At least nine people were killed in Ukraine on Tuesday. The deaths included passengers travelling on the Kyiv-Odesa highway. A Russian drone struck two vehicles, killing three people and injuring four. One victim was the driver of a shuttle bus traveling from the capital to a military cemetery.