Overview
- Financial Times reports that Kyiv has agreed to cap the size of its armed forces at 800,000 personnel as part of talks on a U.S.-devised plan.
- Politico says Washington revised territorial provisions and reduced the proposal from 28 to 19 points, with U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll expected to present the latest version to Russian interlocutors in Abu Dhabi.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported intercepting 249 Ukrainian drones overnight across several regions, while regional officials confirmed at least three deaths and multiple injuries in the Rostov area and damage in Krasnodar.
- A Russian Foreign Ministry envoy said air defenses destroyed four U.S.-made ATACMS rockets headed toward Voronezh, a claim not independently verified in the provided reports.
- Domestic tensions in Ukraine flared over President Zelensky’s negotiating team selections as Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said the next few days would be decisive for efforts to reach a settlement.