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Ukraine Secures Funding for Patriot Batteries as Kremlin Doubts Stall Summit Plans

Kyiv is finalizing financing for ten U.S.-made air-defense systems in anticipation of renewed Russian drone and missile attacks

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Overview

  • Summit discussions have formally started, though Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov says a Zelensky-Putin meeting is unlikely within 30 days.
  • Ukraine has secured commitments to fund three Patriot batteries from Germany and Norway and is negotiating financing for the remaining seven.
  • Russian troops have made incremental advances around Koupiansk and Pokrovsk on the eastern front.
  • Moscow launched 61 drones and two missiles overnight, of which Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 54 drones.
  • Ukrainian forces conducted weekend cross-border raids, damaging the Stavropol Radio Plant, neutralizing a regimental commander and destroying a Su-27UB training jet.