Overview

• President Vladimir Putin met faction leaders at Novo-Ogarevo for more than three hours, including a closed briefing on the situation at the front, according to Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
• Putin urged elevating participants of the special military operation to leadership posts, describing them as the next cadre for public service.
• He said higher defense and defense-industry outlays are producing qualitative gains and asserted that all social obligations continue to be met.
• Putin said many migration policy decisions have been made and must be enforced, and the Kremlin plans to submit Igor Krasnov’s candidacy for Supreme Court chair soon, per Dmitry Peskov.
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov downplayed the impact of potential new sanctions, as U.S. President Donald Trump said Putin "let him down" on efforts to advance a Ukraine settlement.