- U.S. Vice President JD Vance claims Russia and Ukraine are prolonging the conflict over a negligible portion of territory, questioning if it is “worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional Russian and Ukrainian young men”, and criticised Ukrainian President Zelensky's "scandalous" comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
- Ukrainian drones struck a Russian oil pumping station in Crimea, while Russian forces damaged a power substation in Ukraine's Odesa region and attacked other eastern areas, killing one person.
- Leaked conversations indicated Hungary's foreign minister offered his Russian counterpart a document on Ukraine's EU accession, prompting France to label Hungary's engagement with Russia as a "betrayal" of EU solidarity.
- Russia's Federal Security Service detained a former freelance journalist for treason, accusing him of cooperating with Ukraine's SBU, and warned Baltic countries against allowing Ukrainian drones to use their airspace for attacks on Russia.
- Donald Trump reiterated his grievances about NATO after a meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte, following a US-Iran ceasefire agreement, stating the alliance "wasn't there when we needed them".
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