Overview
- After meetings in London and Brussels, Volodymyr Zelensky met Pope Leon XIV at Castel Gandolfo and was due to see Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome.
- Kyiv will transmit its revised response to Washington on Tuesday evening after U.S.-Ukraine consultations pared the American plan from 28 to 20 points.
- European leaders displayed solidarity in London while opposing any cession of Ukrainian territory, and Germany’s Friedrich Merz voiced skepticism about elements of U.S. documents.
- President Donald Trump criticized Zelensky for supposedly not reading the latest proposals, while Zelensky stressed Ukraine has no legal or moral right to surrender land and seeks firm security guarantees.
- Russia claimed to have downed 121 Ukrainian drones overnight and to be advancing in Myrnohrad, as German courts opened a trial of three men accused of spying for Moscow and targeting a former Ukrainian soldier.