Overview

• Trump paused the Washington session to call Vladimir Putin and said he began arranging a Putin–Zelensky meeting within 7–15 days, to be followed by a trilateral he would join, with territorial questions left for the leaders to tackle.
• Germany’s Friedrich Merz and France’s Emmanuel Macron said serious talks require a ceasefire, while Trump argued negotiations can proceed as fighting continues.
• Leaders said a security framework for Kyiv is being drafted by European states in coordination with the U.S., described as Article 5‑style and targeted for formalization within about 10 days, while Moscow reiterated it rejects any NATO troop presence in Ukraine.
• Zelensky said Ukraine offered to buy about $90 billion in U.S. weapons, and the Financial Times reported a $100 billion package financed by Europe plus a plan for joint drone production.
• Russian attacks continued during the talks, with air‑raid alerts in Kyiv after a MiG‑31 launch and reported strikes killing at least 14 people in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.