USA provide intelligence information again, according to Zelenskyy

Ukraine complained about the lack of U.S. intelligence regarding Russian attacks - U.S. President Trump disagreed. Now, the U.S. is supplying information again, says Zelenskyy. Despite this, he remains concerned about the recent U.S. course. The U.S. is once again providing Ukraine with intelligence information to defend against Russian missile attacks, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in an interview with the U.S. broadcaster NBC. The exchange of intelligence information was interrupted but has since been restored. "We are very grateful for that," said Zelenskyy. There had been a temporary interruption of early warning data for ballistic missile launches. Only the U.S. military has these monitoring capabilities. However, the information stop from Washington lasted only three days last week. "It's working again now," Zelenskyy noted. U.S., NATO, and EU refute the stop Ukraine is dependent on U.S. information to track the fast-flying ballistic missiles that Russia is firing in waves at their cities. Throughout the week, Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian government officials criticized that some Russian attacks occurred without warning. However, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Washington continues to share intelligence information. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also said during a visit to Estonia that Trump assured that the exchange of information had not been stopped. The EU also declared that it had "no signs" of Washington halting the sharing of information. Zelenskyy concerned about U.S. course towards Moscow Zelenskyy expressed concern in the NBC interview about a possible rapprochement between the U.S. and Russia: "If the U.S. aligns itself with Russia, we will not survive," he said regarding the recent steps taken by U.S. President Trump, such as the suspension of new sanctions or the announcement of Russian diesel deliveries. A withdrawal of existing U.S. support for Kyiv would be "a historical mistake, a great tragedy." "I believe steps have been taken to persuade Ukraine to capitulate," he added later in a Bloomberg interview. "I am not saying this is the declared goal of our partners," the Ukrainian president continued. "I do not want to believe that our American partners think the war could be ended more quickly - at the expense of Ukraine. But it looks like that." Starlink further throttled, according to Zelenskyy In both interviews, Zelenskyy also complained about further hindrances to Ukraine's war efforts against Russia due to the U.S. The primary restriction has been on the previous use of the Starlink satellite network. "This gives the Russian aggressors further support," Zelenskyy said during the NBC interview. He sees the resulting throttling of the range of Ukrainian counterattacks as intentional, as a "message from the U.S. government." The throttling of Starlink disrupts the use of Ukrainian drones and hampers the crucial air defense against the Russian war of aggression. Trump wants to continue negotiations Meanwhile, Trump justified the decision to suspend sanctions by stating he wants to keep Russia at the negotiation table. "I am working on a peace agreement in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and I want to do nothing that would foolishly drive Russia away from the negotiation table," the U.S. president wrote on his platform Truth Social. On Friday, he had still justified the suspension of the sanctions with a "national security interest" of the U.S. According to analysts, the sanctions could have driven up fuel prices in the U.S. before the midterm elections in early November and potentially alienated voters from Trump's Republican Party. Trump has recently criticized Ukraine sharply for its attacks on Russian oil facilities. The rapidly rising fuel prices put significant pressure on Trump ahead of the important midterms. However, experts clearly see the main reason for this as the war in Iran. Trump personally accused the Ukrainian president of not wanting to end the war and probably never having wanted to do so. Zelenskyy does not comment on Trump's criticism Zelenskyy did not want to comment on the U.S. president's criticism of him in the two interviews. "We are strategic partners," he said. "But we cannot applaud when someone turns against Ukraine." Regarding Trump's statement that he could negotiate better with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin than with Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president merely remarked that Putin is "a killer." In his view, it is better to "have an open and honest partner than a killer with a smile on his face." He hopes very much that Trump will soon change his stance towards Putin.