Overview

• President Volodymyr Zelensky and Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov formally invited Moscow to a new round of negotiations next week.
• Zelensky reiterated his readiness to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face to secure a binding ceasefire.
• Russia has offered no public response while launching over 300 drones and 30 cruise missiles in recent attacks that killed at least one civilian and injured several others.
• President Trump set a 50-day deadline for a peace deal or harsher sanctions and pledged fresh NATO-backed military aid to Ukraine.
• Ukrainian diplomat Roman Bezsmertny and other analysts say Russia’s quantitative edge is waning and that technological precision will determine the conflict’s next phase.