Overview

• After a Paris meeting, Emmanuel Macron said 26 countries committed to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, including potential deployments by land, sea or air once fighting stops.
• Vladimir Putin said a settlement was “practically impossible” and reiterated he would meet Volodymyr Zelensky only in Moscow.
• Zelensky rejected Moscow as a venue and proposed neutral capitals instead, while Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha cited Austria, the Holy See, Switzerland, Türkiye and several Gulf states as willing hosts.
• Ukraine proposed a new format for protecting its airspace and discussed it with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Zelensky.
• Zelensky vowed to keep retaliating against Russian attacks on energy infrastructure as Russia’s Foreign Ministry branded Western-backed security plans for Ukraine “absolutely unacceptable.”