Overview

• President Trump signed an executive order adding a 25% surcharge on Indian imports—raising total US tariffs on India to 50%—in retaliation for New Delhi’s continued purchases of Russian oil.
• Administration officials are evaluating new US sanctions on Russia’s covert ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers if President Putin fails to agree to a ceasefire by the Friday deadline.
• Steve Witkoff described his latest meeting with Vladimir Putin as “very productive,” but the Kremlin is unlikely to halt its offensive and may only offer limited air-only truces.
• Russian forces struck Kharkiv, Odessa, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia overnight, killing at least one civilian and wounding a dozen, while Moscow reported shooting down 51 Ukrainian drones.
• President Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky held a “productive conversation” on coordinating sanctions and defense support, and Trump remains open to meeting both leaders in person.