Witkoff and Kushner will travel to ‘end’ Russia’s war in Ukraine: Trump
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Ukraine and Russia this weekend to help restart peace negotiations.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Ukraine and Russia this weekend to help restart peace negotiations.






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CIA’s Ratcliffe has met with Russian intel officials in Moscow, but not President Putin; Kremlin calls talks ‘positive’.
Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, has once again been attacked in a drone strike by Ukraine.

In an interview with the Russian channel Vesti, Vladimir Putin threatened Ukraine’s ‘most vulnerable’ economic sectors.

Ukraine’s president accuses Russia of a ‘cowardly and deliberate’ attack on a mall in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih.
Russia is suffering attacks inside its own territory as long-range drones strike its strategic assets.
The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed the case, but the plaintiffs aren’t giving up.

Donald Trump has ordered the US military to scale back joint exercises with South Korea.
Japanese PM says Putin’s visit to the Pacific island chain, seized by the Soviet Union in 1945, is ‘unacceptable’.

Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and cousin Atef Najib have been sentenced to death
The US government had recently designated Gilman as wrongfully detained.