Overview

• Zelenski called his meeting with U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg "excellent" and said Ukrainian and U.S. delegations will meet this week to define security guarantees and prepare for potential contacts with Moscow.
• Trump said he has "very serious" consequences in mind and warned of an "economic war" if Putin does not move toward a cease-fire.
• Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that a Putin–Zelenski summit cannot proceed because an agenda is "not ready at all," cooling immediate prospects for leader-level talks.
• U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance said new sanctions against Russia are not ruled out and claimed Moscow has shown "significant concessions" in discussions with Trump.
• Both sides reported ongoing strikes and localized advances, a 146-for-146 prisoner exchange was completed, and Russian officials confirmed a drone-caused transformer fire at the Kursk nuclear plant with no abnormal radiation, while Ukrainian sources claimed a strike on Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal.