Overview

• President Trump’s 50-day deadline for Moscow to accept a peace deal or face secondary sanctions remains in force.
• Seventeen Patriot batteries funded by Germany, the UK, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Canada will bolster Ukraine’s air defenses.
• Russian drone and missile attacks on Dobropillia killed two civilians and wounded over twenty, according to local authorities.
• Ukraine intercepted 198 of nearly 400 Russian drones overnight while Russia reported shooting down 126 Ukrainian drones, citing one civilian death and four injuries.
• Dmitri Medvedev, vice-chair of Russia’s Security Council, urged preventive strikes against Western targets, underscoring Moscow’s hard-line posture.