Overview
- Russia claimed new gains in Donetsk and near Kharkiv while independent mapping and analysts reported faster advances across multiple fronts and growing strain on Ukrainian defenses.
- President Donald Trump said Volodymyr Zelensky had not yet read the U.S. proposal, underscoring friction after envoy talks with both Kyiv and Vladimir Putin produced no breakthrough.
- Hamas signaled openness to freezing or storing weapons under a U.S.-brokered framework as Israeli officials rejected lengthy timelines and floated limits on a proposed international force’s role, with Israeli media citing a Qatar–Turkey idea to transfer or warehouse arms.
- Israeli assertions of a de facto ‘yellow line’ inside Gaza raised concerns about a lasting division of the enclave even as the ceasefire’s next phase remains undefined.
- The Guardian reported worries over alleged secret recordings at the U.S. coordination center in southern Israel, a claim the Israeli military denied, while separate reports detailed worsening aid attacks in Sudan and new testimonies accusing Russia-linked ‘Africa Corps’ of atrocities in Mali.