Overview
- In a Guardian interview, the Ukrainian leader said Trump did not throw battlefield maps and described their conversation as normal.
- He returned from Washington without concrete pledges for Tomahawk cruise missiles or the 27 Patriot air-defense systems he sought, according to Newsweek.
- The U.S. administration has moved to penalize major Russian oil companies, the first such sanctions since Trump took office in January, Tagesspiegel reported.
- The Financial Times and Reuters previously described a heated meeting with swearing and a maps gesture, accounts Selenskyj publicly disputed.
- Selenskyj said he is not afraid of Trump and cast Ukraine as a U.S. friend, as observers continue to note Trump’s mixed signals on Kyiv.