Overview

• President Trump cut his ceasefire deadline from 50 to 10–12 days and threatened 100 percent tariffs on Russian energy buyers, yet the Kremlin has ignored the ultimatum.
• Overnight drone and missile attacks on Kyiv killed at least six people, including a six-year-old child, and injured dozens while damaging homes, schools and a hospital children’s ward.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry announced it had seized the strategic eastern city of Chasiv Jar, a claim the Ukrainian military spokesman dismissed as “a complete lie.”
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov insisted the “special operation” in Ukraine will continue unabated despite looming secondary sanctions.
• Experts warn that enforcing Trump’s threatened secondary sanctions could inflict a massive economic shock on Russia and jeopardize President Putin’s strategy in Ukraine.