{"id":597384,"date":"2026-11-02T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T10:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=597384"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:45:59","slug":"zelenskyy-ready-to-halt-refinery-strikes-in-exchange-for-patriot-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/zelenskyy-ready-to-halt-refinery-strikes-in-exchange-for-patriot-missiles","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Ready to Halt Refinery Strikes in Exchange for Patriot Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TreyYingst\/status\/2117015886314037757\">interview with Fox News<\/a> that he was ready to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries if his country received a sufficient number of missiles for Patriot air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>\u201c<span class=\"lk-player-word\">We<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">asked<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">that<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">we<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">can&#8217;t<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">not<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">respond<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">after<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">Russia&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">attack<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">on<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">our<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">energy,<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">after<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">Russia<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">is<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">killing<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">our<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">people,<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">attacks<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">on<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">our<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">electricity,<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">gas,<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">refiners,<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">on<\/span> <span class=\"lk-player-word\">everything<\/span>\u201d<\/em><\/i>, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said he was ready to stop the attacks if Russia also stopped striking Ukraine\u2019s energy system. Another option, he said, would be to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a sufficient stockpile of ammunition for the air defence systems.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>\u201cAnother alternative, give us Patriot missiles. We will find money, not just aid, yes, just delivers and we will pay for it\u201d<\/em><\/i>, he said.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>\u201cFor one month, if you need us, not a tag there, for refiners, one month, give me, I mean, give me pay through for one month\u201d<\/em><\/i>, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Fox News that he was ready to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries if his country received a sufficient number of missiles for Patriot air defence systems. \u201cWe asked that we can&#8217;t not respond after Russia&#8217;s attack on our energy, after Russia is killing our people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":597386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6ae886145fcce.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Zelenskyy Ready to Halt Refinery Strikes in Exchange for Patriot Missiles"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597396,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597384\/revisions\/597396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}