Overview

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called talk of NATO countries being ready to shoot down Russian aircraft very irresponsible and said no convincing proof of airspace violations has been shown.
• Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed Bloomberg’s account of a European warning as a fabricated fantasy and said she could not identify the purported meeting it described.
• Rafael Grossi said his conversation with Putin was very important and stressed the obligation to keep seeking ways to avoid a nuclear incident in the context of the war in Ukraine.
• Putin told Grossi that Russia’s cooperation with the IAEA spans virtually all areas, including global nuclear safety and international projects.
• Aleksandar Vučić said the United States might grant at most a one‑month extension to the delay on sanctions targeting Serbia’s NIS, though he described even that as uncertain, and Alexander Lukashenko is in Moscow for talks that include a potential second Belarusian nuclear plant.