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Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner held a three-hour session with Putin at the Kremlin Saturday — both sides agreed to pause strikes on capitals, and the U.S. team heads to Kyiv next in the first direct Ukraine visit of the current peace effort.
Something is very wrong inside the Zelensky regime — and the streets of Kyiv are now proving it.
Trump’s top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner touched down in Moscow Saturday with a formal Ukraine peace proposal. Trump says Putin is not going to attack NATO territory — calling the years of Brussels alarmism wrong.
Vladimir Putin said today that Russia supports the full-scale restoration of relations with the United States, noting that Trump is determined to work positively and that intelligence contacts are ongoing.
Russia’s embassy in Berlin warned Friday that German military installations hosting long-range missile systems would become legitimate targets for the Russian armed forces — as Berlin finalizes a €12 billion precision strike program with France and the UK.
Ukrainian intelligence agencies GUR and SBU exchanged gunfire in a Kyiv residential district, reportedly triggered by the SBU’s abduction of a Russian Volunteer Corps commander.
Russia’s 11th Eastern Economic Forum opened in Vladivostok with delegations from over 70 nations. The Northern Sea Route and a still-unresolved Power of Siberia-2 pricing dispute with Beijing top the agenda.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to announce sweeping new sanctions against Russia, using the Leipzig Airport drone incident as justification — even as Finland’s president publicly breaks ranks, saying claims of Russian NATO attack plans have no evidence.