Zelensky’s term expired in May 2024. There was no election. Now he cites 9 million exiled Ukrainians as his excuse to stay in power — while Western cash continues to flow into one of Europe’s most corrupt regimes.
Ukraine struck the Syzran refinery in Russia’s Samara region days after Trump urged Kyiv to halt refinery attacks, as US diesel prices surpass $6 a gallon and global fuel supplies tighten ahead of winter.
NATO fighter jets destroyed a drone over Lithuania after it entered from Belarus in the early hours of Tuesday, as Poland separately recovered a suspected Russian drone from the Baltic Sea.
A Russian drone struck a passenger train locomotive near the Polish border overnight, hitting the same route that moments before carried former British PM Boris Johnson, former CIA Director David Petraeus, and senior European security officials returning from the YES conference in Kyiv.
Moscow signals readiness to return to trilateral peace talks as early as October with Abu Dhabi on deck as host, while Peskov warns Lithuania that lifting its nuclear weapons ban would make it a Russian target.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says a formal negotiating framework on Ukraine could be ready within weeks, citing meaningful talks by Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner in both Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend.