What Zelenskyy said about the restored warnings

Speaking on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president confirmed that US intelligence sharing with ukraine had been switched back on, with advance warnings of ballistic missile attacks flowing again after an apparent pause the week before.

"Now it works. It's great," Zelenskyy said, adding that the restored American sharing would save lives.

He explained why the warnings matter most away from the front line: "It's very important for our people, for children, adults, civilians, because we can hear when ballistic [missiles] is coming." He said Ukraine was thankful to the American side.

The Oslo talks and who was in the room

The announcement came after Zelenskyy met the US envoy Steve Witkoff in Norway, at talks held amid the worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion began nearly five years ago.

The meeting drew in several other figures:

• •Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law, joined Witkoff and Zelenskyy by video.
• •Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, took part.
• •EU and British security officials were also present.

Other frictions still unresolved

Zelenskyy described a "positive" phone call earlier with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, but used it to press a series of outstanding grievances. He raised restrictions imposed the previous week on Starshield, the military-grade version of Elon Musk's satellite internet service, whose slowdown has crippled Ukraine's ability to launch mid-range drone strikes on Russian battlefield positions.

He also offered to stop Ukraine's long-range attacks on Russian oil refineries – a key Trump demand – if the US supplied Kyiv with Patriot missile interceptors.

• •Zelenskyy told a bipartisan group of US politicians he believed "some political decision has been made to slow down … support for us".
• •US officials have denied any deliberate slowdown, but have failed to explain convincingly why satellite communication services were curtailed or intelligence sharing temporarily cut off.
• •Rubio, speaking in India, insisted nothing had changed, citing global shortages of Patriot interceptors. "There has not been some deliberate political directive to go out and harm Ukraine," he said.

Russian strikes continue

The diplomatic step forward came on a day that showed the stakes of the warnings. At least nine people were killed in Ukraine on Tuesday. A Russian drone struck two vehicles on the Kyiv to Odesa highway, killing three people and injuring four, among them the driver of a shuttle bus heading to a military cemetery.