Overview
- The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin is ready for dialogue with Emmanuel Macron, and the Élysée called the stance welcome while planning how talks could proceed in the coming days.
- Envoy-level discussions in Miami brought together American, Ukrainian and European negotiators, with Russian emissary Kirill Dmitriev received separately, and participants described the exchanges as productive though no breakthrough was announced.
- Moscow’s foreign policy aide Iouri Ouchakov said a three‑way meeting involving the United States, Ukraine and Russia is not being prepared, despite Kyiv referencing a U.S. proposal for such talks.
- Reuters reported that U.S. intelligence assesses Putin’s war aims as unchanged, a claim publicly rejected by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as false and propagandistic.
- Fighting continued with strikes and local offensives reported, including a deadly fire at an Odessa oil terminal and claimed Russian gains in villages, as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged greater U.S. pressure and detailed heavy drone and bomb attacks over the past week.