Over 800 drones and 13 missiles targeted buildings in Kyiv, Odesa, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, and Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that several people were killed across the country.
Twenty-six of Ukraine’s allies committed to providing security guarantees for postwar Ukraine at a meeting in Paris, encouraging U.S. President Donald Trump to do the same.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that deploying foreign troops in Ukraine would provoke a Russian military response and asserted that foreign troops would be unnecessary in Ukraine following a peace deal.
Svyrydenko called on Ukraine’s allies to “increase the sanction pressure” on Russia to weaken its military capabilities.
A European Union delegation is heading to Washington to prepare new joint sanctions against Russia, European Council President António Costa announced, signaling that Brussels is seeking Washington’s cooperation to exert more pressure on Moscow.
Last month, Trump reiterated a sanctions threat against Russia if there was no progress toward a peace agreement.
The European Union is preparing its 19th sanctions package since Russia’s war against Ukraine began. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated they would introduce the package soon.
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