Mexico

Mexico, October 11, 2026. The Mexican press reports that Donald Trump "arremetido" on Saturday, October 10, against Volodymyr Zelensky, estimating that "ha llegado el momento de que Ucrania tenga un nuevo presidente". According to El Financiero, which details the statements made to the press outside the White House, the reason given is the Ukrainian bombing of Russian diesel refineries.

The reasoning is presented in terms of market. Trump claims to have told Kiev: "puedes hacer lo que quieras con Rusia, pero no ataques las refinerías", because it would be a "problema mundial" that would affect "nuestros agricultores, nuestros ganaderos", Russia providing a large part of the world's diesel. The articles note that these statements come a few hours after Trump's announcement that Washington will allow Russian operations on diesel until April, in order to contain the global price increase.

El Financiero and El Siglo de Torreón, which pick up the same dispatch, also highlight that the delegation sent by Kiev to Florida to meet with American emissaries for Ukraine has advanced its return. The American president, meanwhile, was leaving for Tennessee, where he was to hold a meeting for the legislative elections, a detail that the economic daily mentions without comment.

On the substance of the conflict, Trump maintains that Zelensky did not want to conclude agreements to end the war, which would have started "debido a la incompetencia". He adds: "Nunca debió haber empezado. No habrían perdido ya el 30 % de su país", and then recommends that Ukrainians look for "un nuevo líder capaz de llegar a un acuerdo". El Norte and Reforma, with a shorter text, summarize that Zelensky would not have done enough to end the war.

The Ukrainian reaction is little developed in this corpus. El Financiero only recalls that Zelensky had criticized on Friday the agreement between Trump and Vladimir Putin, which he considers "injusto" and "impropio de un aliado". The whole gives a reading centered on the tension between Washington and Kiev, but above all on the question of diesel, seen as a issue of prices and global supply rather than as a matter of legitimacy of the Ukrainian president.