France, Oct. 15 -- Relations between Kyiv and Washington have soured since last week, when Trump eased sanctions on Russia in exchange for Moscow releasing large amounts of diesel onto global markets.

Anger in Ukraine has been further heightened by outages to a critical US-provided satellite system that has hampered its military's ability to counter Russia's intense bombardments.

Zelensky had told the Financial Times that the pause in strikes against Russian refineries was "done" as Moscow was not abiding by the ceasefire on hitting energy infrastructure that had been announced by Trump.

In response, Trump called the renewed Ukrainian attacks a "disgrace" and said Kyiv was driving up global energy prices.

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