Overview
- Markarova was appointed Adviser on Rebuilding and Investments, tasked with improving the business climate, bolstering financial resilience, attracting capital, and coordinating recovery plans with partners.
- Zelensky outlined a long‑term objective to rebuild after hostilities and restore normal economic development alongside the ongoing defense effort.
- A Ukrainian delegation is headed to the United States for talks on a US plan to end the war, which reports say was pared back after criticism from Kyiv and European allies and whose current contents remain unclear.
- Reporting said the initial US draft, prepared without broad European input, contemplated a Ukrainian withdrawal from parts of Donetsk and de facto US recognition of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea as Russian.
- A Russian drone strike on Vyshgorod near Kyiv killed one person and wounded 11, and a French official said Zelensky is due in Paris for talks with President Emmanuel Macron.