Overview
- Russia says it handed decrypted drone navigation data and a component to a U.S. military attaché in Moscow to support its allegation of a Ukrainian plot against a Putin residence.
- U.S. media report the CIA told President Trump it assesses Ukraine did not target Putin or his residences and that a strike in the region hit a military site elsewhere.
- Kyiv denies attacking civilian locations and rejects Russian claims about a deadly hotel and café strike in occupied Kherson, which remain unverified.
- Zelenskyy appointed military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov to lead the presidential office, named Oleh Ivaschenko to head HUR, and proposed Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister pending parliamentary approval.
- Security advisers from 15 countries plus the EU and NATO meet in Kyiv on Saturday with the U.S. joining remotely, followed by chiefs-of-staff talks and a Paris summit of the "coalition of the willing" next week.