Zelenskyy confirms US threatened to cut intelligence-sharing over Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that US President Donald Trump's administration warned it could halt intelligence-sharing if Ukraine did not stop striking Russian oil refineries.

Zelenskyy noted in an interview with NPR that he had not received such a warning personally, but it was conveyed to Ukrainian generals.

"They told my generals, not me. But to be honest, did we get any messages that it can be stopped? My generals told me that on the level of military people they've got this information. They've got information that it can be stopped," Zelenskyy said.

Axios reported that during talks with the Ukrainian team in Florida on 9 October, Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner threatened to stop providing US intelligence to Ukraine because of its strikes on Russian oil refineries.

On 13 October, Trump himself denied that the US has stopped providing intelligence to Ukraine.