Overview

• President Trump posted that wars are not won without attacking an invader’s country, signaling openness to wider Ukrainian strikes inside Russia after months of discouraging them.
• Moscow’s foreign minister said a Putin–Zelenskyy summit can occur only after major terms are settled by negotiators, contrasting with the White House claim that Putin agreed to a next phase leading to a meeting.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he needs an agreed security guarantees architecture within seven to ten days and would meet Putin only after that, favoring a neutral European venue.
• Reporting based on Kremlin-linked sources says Putin wants Ukraine to give up the remaining Donbas, renounce NATO membership, adopt neutrality, and bar Western troops, with a revised offer to freeze current lines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
• Fighting continued with what France called the most massive Russian drone and missile attack in a month, casualties reported in western Ukraine, and Kyiv announcing a successful test of a new long‑range ‘Flamingo’ cruise missile.