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This storyline covers military information-sharing with Ukraine, including advance warnings of Russian strikes, threats to continued intelligence cooperation, and official responses from Ukraine and its allies.

Trump denies cutting Ukraine off as Russian strikes hit Kyiv power grid

President Donald Trump categorically denied Tuesday that the United States had cut Ukraine off, telling reporters at the White House, "We are helping them and we are sharing intel, we want the war to end." The denial came as Russian forces…

2026-10-14 · 5 MIN READ

After Rubio call, Zelenskyy says missile warnings have resumed

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was again receiving partner warnings about incoming Russian missiles and was thankful to the American side now that early warning was working.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who arrived in India on an official trip Tuesday, denied that the United States was withholding assistance from Ukraine.
Rubio said the Trump administration had not changed previous policy on intelligence sharing or weapons supplies.
Ukrainian officials said Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least nine people across Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had nearly run out of American-made Patriot air-defense interceptors.
Germany's Kiel Institute reported that European countries and European Union institutions had allocated 237 billion euros ($266 billion) to Ukraine, compared with 115 billion euros ($129 billion) from the United States.

2026-10-21 · 6 MIN READ

Zelenskyy flags intelligence gap after unwarned Kyiv missile strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Western allies provided no advance warning of Monday's Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, in which five missiles hit civilian infrastructure.
Zelenskyy called the attack "particularly vile" and emphasized that allied intelligence sharing "helps save lives" by alerting Ukrainians to incoming ballistic missile launches.
US officials threatened over the weekend to halt intelligence sharing with Kyiv; Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said cooperation was continuing and attributed the absence of warning to a "special type" of Russian weaponry.
President Trump has demanded that Ukraine stop striking Russian oil refineries and blamed Zelenskyy for rising US fuel prices; on Friday Trump announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, dropping previous US sanctions, and on Sunday claimed an "energy ceasefire" that Zelenskyy called "news to me."
Russia continued bombarding Ukrainian energy infrastructure after Trump's announcement and on Monday struck Kharkiv, destroying a residential building and killing four people, with 41 injured, Zelenskyy said.

2026-10-13 · 4 MIN READ