WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his country would stop hitting Russian oil refineries – a key demand of US President Donald Trump – if Washington provided Kyiv with powerful Patriot interceptor missiles.
Trump, battling inflation at home driven in large part by soaring energy prices fuelled by his war on Iran and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has demanded the European foes stop attacking each other's energy sites.
Speaking to US broadcaster Fox News on Sunday, Zelenskyy said he had "different and several" conversations with Trump and his team about the issue.
"We asked that we can't not respond after Russia's attack on our energy, after Russia is killing our people, attacks on our electricity, gas, refineries, on everything," he told Fox News host Trey Yingst.
