Overview
- Keir Starmer hosted Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz at Downing Street to forge a coordinated European-Ukrainian position on the U.S.-drafted plan.
- Days of U.S.–Ukraine negotiations in Miami ended without a deal, with U.S. officials pointing to Donbas and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as the principal sticking points.
- President Donald Trump said he was “a little bit disappointed” that Zelensky had not read the proposal, while Zelensky called the U.S. talks constructive though not easy.
- European leaders reaffirmed support for Kyiv but questioned provisions seen as favoring Moscow, discussing security guarantees and potential use of frozen Russian assets.
- Russian missile and drone strikes continued to hit civilians and infrastructure as the Kremlin welcomed Washington’s new national security strategy signaling warmer ties with Moscow.