Zelensky prepares for Oslo talks with US envoys as Rubio denies withholding intelligence

US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Volodymyr Zelensky are meeting in Oslo, with relations on the slide between the Ukrainian leader and US President Donald Trump.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Zelensky had asked Oslo and neighbouring Finland to organise the talks with the US and European allies "at a critical time for Ukraine".

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier rejected as "scandalous" accusations that Ukrainians were dying because the US was withholding intelligence from Kyiv.

He was speaking after Zelensky's top military adviser Serhii Beskrestnov told the BBC the lack of reliable US warnings - including about ballistic missile launches - meant lives were being lost.

"This looks very strange," said Beskrestnov, widely known as "Flash". "Sometimes we receive this information before the attack, another time we [do] not."

Relations between Kyiv and the US have soured in recent weeks to the extent that Trump has said it is time for Ukraine to get a new president, and most recently "for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine".

Zelensky first met the Norwegian prime minister and Finnish President Alexander Stubb, ahead of his talks in person with Witkoff, with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner taking part via video link.

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