Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky arrives in New York after Trump says Putin has ‘lost control of oil’

Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in New York with first lady Olena Zelenska for the UN General Assembly, with Ukraine set to push for a freeze on energy sector strikes and a new drone deal with its allies.

Zelensky is set to meet US president Donald Trump later on Tuesday, where the pair will discuss a limited truce to protect heating and power facilities ahead of winter.

French president Emmanuel Macron , who also arrived in the city, met Zelensky late on Monday and stressed the urgent need to stop the strikes on energy infrastructure, amid fears millions of families in Ukraine could be deprived of critical heating and electricity.

Trump earlier warned that Russia had “unfortunately lost control” of its oil industry, as he urged Ukraine to halt long-range strikes on refineries.

“A large number of their diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission,” the US president wrote on Truth Social, following a phone call with Zelensky .

A senior White House official familiar with the conversation between the two leaders said Trump was worried that the Ukrainian attacks are exacerbating a global diesel shortage and pushing up prices, the FT reported.

Every new digital device in Russia is mandated to come equipped with a messenger app named Max.

But beneath its innocuous white-and-blue logo lies software that experts warn could allow the Kremlin to dramatically expand its capacity to spy on the Russian public.

The app, launched last year by Russian tech company VK, is not only a space for messaging and video calls but serves as a broader information system with the capacity to perform rigid surveillance on citizens.

New research conducted by academics has found tens of millions of people use the platform, which has the potential to serve as a “backdoor” to sweeping invasions of privacy that “undermine the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information”.

The Kremlin said on Monday that food and medicine shortages in a Russian-controlled town in Ukraine’s Kherson are being resolved.

Russian-occupied Oleshky in Kherson Oblast, where some 6,000 people and 200 children live, has been facing an escalating humanitarian crisis due to constant Russian drone attacks.

Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine's delegation intended to ⁠raise before the UN General ​Assembly ⁠the issue of Oleshky, where residents "were dying from hunger and ‌cold."

"The occupiers are not ‌allowing humanitarian aid through. We have been negotiating evacuation for a long time... ⁠and Russia is giving no reply," Sybiha said in a video posted on Facebook.