Kushner’s “win-win” peace deal is impossible when Putin wants all of Ukraine — Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president said he knew Putin would never change his goal, and that the deal formula was built on a misreading of what Russia wanted.
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Ukraine takes Zelenskyy’s Russian airspace warning to UN aviation body
Kyiv's letter asks the UN aviation body to recommend that member states stop flying over Russia.
Putin dismisses mobilization reports as Ukraine warns Russia could call up 600,000 to war
Russian officials gave similar assurances before the Kremlin’s 2022 call-up, while the decree authorizing it was never formally revoked.
Russia says Armenia’s EU accession law means leaving Moscow-led trade bloc. Yerevan disagrees
At their first meeting since Armenia’s June election, Pashinyan rejected Putin’s claim that Yerevan had begun leaving Moscow’s economic bloc.
Putin says Russia is 12 km from Sumy—1.5 km farther than in June
Just two months ago, the Kremlin claimed Russian troops were 10.5 km from Sumy—now it says they are 12 km away.
Putin calls Zelenskyy’s airspace warning “state terrorism” as shares in Russia’s national airline fall 5%
European and US airlines already avoid Russian airspace, while carriers from China, Turkey, and Gulf states continue using it.
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
Russia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign.
Russia grinds up the eastern approach to Sloviansk after its northeastern push stalled
Russian troops pushed to the edge of Pyskunivka and infiltrated Mykolaivka, the village that would give them a dry approach to the city.
Russia’s UN envoy denies reports of post-election mass mobilization
More than 20,000 people crossed from Russia into Georgia in one day amid fears of a post-election draft. Ukraine says Russia is losing troops faster than it recruits them.
NYT: France, Germany and UK build joint format to secure Europe a place in Ukraine peace talks
France and Germany lead the E3 push while Britain hesitates. The group wants a say over sanctions and Ukraine’s postwar security.
ISW: Russia has taken just 81 km² of Ukraine this year—while claiming 2,226
The false picture is not just propaganda for the public but material that appears to reach the desk of Russia's leader, the think tank says.
Occupation official told Putin the Crimea highway is drone-proof—Russia’s own milbloggers refuted him within hours
One pro-war channel admitted traffic collapsed because drivers fear Ukrainian drones, not because Russian air defenses got better.
A nationwide bomb-shelter overhaul is underway in Belarus as Moscow pushes Minsk toward its war against Ukraine
Belpol documented shelter modernization at government offices, telecom sites, factories, utilities, and the National Bank, framing it as another stage of Minsk's war readiness.
“Three-day war,” now in year five: Russia has missed 15 of its own deadlines to seize Donetsk Oblast since the 2022, Zelenskyy says
Moscow still holds short of the region after more than four years of the all-out war, even as it demands all of it at the negotiating table.
Russia poured 46% of its budget into the military in early 2026 even as revenue fell — ISW
Moscow promised to cut war spending in 2026. It raised it 30% instead, according to an expert's assessment.
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
Freezing the war along today’s lines is “the quickest way” to peace, Ukraine’s leader told Sky News
Zelenskyy insisted it is no concession, but a way to save children and bring soldiers home, paired with monitoring missions and allied guarantees.
WSJ: Putin’s sanctioned inner circle keeps buying Western business jets through a web of middlemen
A WSJ investigation traces Bombardier and Gulfstream business jets from European dealers through Dubai and Bermuda into Kremlin hands.
Russia wants joint economic projects with US — but only if Washington stops linking them to peace in Ukraine
Russia is offering Trump a deal that makes peace unnecessary.
Kremlin terms unchanged: Moscow repeats Putin’s 2024 demand for four Ukraine’s oblasts as peace push stalls
That is a demand for capitulation, not for peace.