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KYIV, Ukraine — <\/span>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that only Russia was responsible for the war in his country. He said Ukraine would halt strikes on Russian oil refineries if Moscow stopped hitting Ukraine\u2019s energy grid, after U.S. President Donald Trump blamed him for high diesel prices and said it was time for Ukraine to get a new leader.<\/p>\n The exchange came as Kyiv pressed its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia, with a drone attack on Sunday shutting down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the third strike on the company\u2019s facilities in four days. Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than 4 1\/2 years since Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cUkraine will be ready to stop striking Russian oil refineries if Russia stops striking our energy infrastructure,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is possible to stop strikes on energy infrastructure as early as today, but Putin does not want to do so,\u201d he said, adding that any de-escalation must be reciprocal and backed by real guarantees.<\/p>\n Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha pushed back on Trump’s comments, writing on X late Saturday that Zelenskyy was leading the country through a war for its independence. \u201cHe has the support of the Ukrainian people, and they have the right to decide. Statements from abroad only confirm that he is doing his job well,\u201d Sybiha wrote.<\/p>\n Trump said Saturday it was time for Ukraine to get a new president<\/a>, suggesting Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S.<\/p>\n \u201cI suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n The U.S. president, who on Friday struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from Russia in an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, has been urging Zelenskyy for weeks to stop strikes on Russian energy infrastructure. <\/p>\n He has sought to blame record U.S. diesel prices on Ukraine rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran, which has driven up world energy prices. Ukrainian and European officials reacted to the diesel deal with dismay, saying it will help pay for Russia\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n A Ukrainian drone attack shut down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the company said Sunday, the third strike on its facilities in four days as Kyiv widens its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n The attack on the data center in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow, caused outages across Yandex\u2019s services, leaving users in dozens of Russian cities and in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia unable to order taxis or access banking services, according to Russian independent news outlet Astra.<\/p>\n