Overview

• Russia deployed more than 300 drones and eight cruise missiles in a new barrage on Kyiv, causing at least 16 civilian deaths and injuring over 150 people.
• President Trump reduced his earlier 50-day peace timeline to ten days and warned that the United States would impose high tariffs on Russia’s trade partners if a ceasefire is not reached.
• US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is preparing to travel from Israel to Moscow to negotiate a halt to the fighting.
• After a public exchange with Dmitry Medvedev, Trump announced the stationing of two nuclear submarines in regions closer to Russia.
• The Russian Defense Ministry’s declaration of control over Chasiv Yar has been firmly denied by the Ukrainian army.