The US has resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, after a brief ‌pause, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says.

Ukraine has relied on US intelligence to spot ‌the fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia has fired in waves at its cities.

US President Donald Trump had ‌said that Washington was still sharing intelligence, although Ukrainian officials said some Russian strikes had occurred without warning.

Zelensky said intelligence-sharing had been interrupted but later “de-blocked”.

“We are very thankful for this,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday (US time).

“Now it works.”

But Zelensky said other US actions, such as signing ‌a deal to import ‌Russian diesel and ⁠waiving sanctions on Russia that had been slated to take effect ​this week, would hurt Ukraine.

“If the United States will officially take the side of Russia, of course if these two countries will be together, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand,” he said.

Over the past week, a widening rift between Trump and Zelensky has sparked ⁠concerns that their tumultuous relationship could lead to even ‌worse outcomes ​for Kyiv.

Zelensky told NBC he hoped Trump would remain an ally of Ukraine.

“We want to ​trust him, and ‌I hope that he will change his decisions,” Zelensky said.

“Because I think that it’s all mistakes ​and it will not help us. And it will not help United States.”

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump wrote that his decision-making was aimed at avoiding anything “that ​will drive, ​foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining ​table”.

Ukraine got US help that Russia did not ‌receive, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told NBC, citing intelligence-sharing and the provision of US munitions to other countries for resale to Ukraine.

But Bessent, speaking with Meet the Press after it aired Zelensky’s interview, did not directly answer when asked multiple times whether the US viewed Ukraine as an ally.

“Zelensky presents a ​false binary this morning that Ukraine must win,” Bessent said.

“The war must end, and that will ​be with some kind of ⁠a negotiated settlement.”

Meanwhile,  a ‌Russian air strike ‌killed ‌one person and injured two in ‌Ukraine’s ‌capital ⁠of Kyiv ​overnight, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said ⁠on Telegram ‌early ​on Monday.

A ​medical facility ‌and a ​non-residential building were damaged ​in ​the ​attack, ‌he said.