Overview

• Germany and Norway will fully finance additional Patriot air‐defense batteries to be shipped to Ukraine in the coming days under a European Union–brokered deal.
• President Trump has given Moscow a 50-day deadline to accept a peace agreement or face 100 percent secondary tariffs on any country trading with Russia.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Washington’s arms pledges and sanctions threats are likely to be perceived by Kyiv as a signal to continue fighting rather than negotiate.
• Trump downplayed the prospect of sending Ukraine long-range strike weapons, stating on Tuesday that the United States is not looking to provide capabilities to hit deep into Russian territory.
• Experts including CSIS’s Mark F. Cancian caution that Patriot systems alone cannot counter low-tech drone swarms and stress Ukraine’s need for a more layered air-defense network.