Trump says US still shares intelligence with Ukraine as Kyiv reports no warning

Ukraine's foreign minister has said the country is still receiving intelligence support from the United States, despite President Donald Trump's threats to cut it off. Trump himself said the US is still sharing military intelligence with Ukraine. 'We are helping them and we are sharing intel. We want the war to end,' he said, adding that Washington is working with both Ukraine and Russia to stop the fighting. The remarks came after a weekend in which Trump suggested Ukraine might need a new leader, though his tone was described as less hostile in the latest comments.

Ukraine says it received no warning from allies before a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv overnight. A series of explosions was heard in the city. The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said a nine-storey residential building was hit for the second night in a row. A drone also hit a residential tower block, killing at least two people and injuring several others. Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian attacks killed at least six people. One reporter counted five missile strikes on the edge of Kyiv before air raid sirens sounded, raising questions about whether warning intelligence reached Ukraine in time.

Despite Trump's claim that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to an energy ceasefire, Ukrainian infrastructure was again targeted. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine did stop attacks on Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure for two days after Trump announced the so-called energy ceasefire, but Russia failed to follow suit. He said it was clear Vladimir Putin does not accept such a ceasefire and does not read Trump's social media platform. The Kremlin said it had no comment on the reported ceasefire. Trump insisted the agreement existed: 'They agreed because I said they agreed. That thing has to get settled. That war is a disaster.'

At a security forum in Warsaw, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the full energy ceasefire must be taken seriously. He noted that in the last week alone there had been 200 Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. He called for Britain and others to work with Trump to hold Putin to a broad energy ceasefire, not just a refinery ceasefire.

Volodymyr Omelyan, a former Ukrainian infrastructure minister, was sceptical about the talks. He said they were driven mainly by US midterm elections and that the Kremlin's main interest was to spread chaos. Ukraine had stopped bombing Russian refineries for two days, he said, but Russia did not stop bombing Ukraine's gas and energy facilities. He argued that only military action plus sanctions could force Moscow to stop the war. On intelligence, he said this was not the first time warning questions had arisen, but he did not want to speculate about Trump cutting off intelligence or Starlink access.

Trump's comments came amid domestic political pressure in the US. He told reporters that a controversial deal to buy diesel from Russia was for the world, not just the United States. His party is anxious about midterm elections, and some Republican lawmakers have criticised the diesel deal. Trump said he believed both Putin and Zelensky wanted the war to end, adding that they did not know how to get there.

In the UK, the head of MI5, Ken McCallum, named Russia as the UK's greatest threat and said the security service's state threats caseload had quadrupled in a decade, with more resources devoted to countering state threats than during the Cold War. Former NATO deputy supreme allied commander Sir Richard Shirreff accused Trump of being 'effectively de facto an agent for Putin' and called the diesel deal an act of treachery. Military analyst Justin Crump said it was too early to know whether US intelligence sharing had been affected, and that any change could also reflect Russian tactical adaptation or the political weaponisation of intelligence by Trump.

Key questions remain unresolved: whether US intelligence is reaching Ukraine quickly enough to warn civilians, and whether the energy ceasefire exists beyond public statements. Ukraine's allies say they want to keep supplying support, but the political signals from Washington continue to shift.