Overview
- President Vladimir Putin dismissed proposals for a ceasefire and summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing Kyiv of orchestrating terror attacks on Russian soil.
- Ukraine’s Operation Telaraña drone raid destroyed 41 Russian aircraft at five airfields, including two sites in Siberia.
- Kyiv and Moscow are set to swap about 500 prisoners of war this Saturday or Sunday under terms agreed during recent Istanbul-mediated talks.
- A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Priluki killed five people, among them a one-year-old child, and wounded six others in residential areas.
- Global engagement has intensified as U.S. President Trump discussed Ukraine’s airfield attacks with Putin, separately conferred with China’s Xi on trade, and the U.K. pledged to supply 100,000 drones to Kyiv.