"While [Donald Trump] remains optimistic he can strike a deal, he's also being realistic. Both leaders need to come to the table to negotiate their way out of this," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

"We are going to intensify pressure on Russia in the coming eight to 10 days," Macron told Paris Match magazine.

"There is no chance that we will agree to [a ceasefire] with Hamas that just allows it to rearm," Times of Israel cited an official as saying.

“It’s a toxic environment. First, you’ve got the insecurity of not knowing whether you’re going to get fired or not. Then there’s the witch hunt to find the whistleblowers who are exposing the ineptitude and bad management of agencies,” a source told the newspaper.

“It’s a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in US reliability,” the WSJ writes.

"We are doing GREAT, better than ever before," the American president wrote on his TruthSocial.

"[They] do not demonstrate an ounce of human empathy for any of the suffering that Joe Biden's border invasion, the Democrat Party's border invasion, has wrought on this country," the US Homeland Security Advisor said.

“Overall, the trends are NOT POSITIVE FOR UKRAINE,” he emphasized.

“Currently, young men are being recruited into the Ukrainian Armed Forces through fear and provocation: a minor offense means threats of prison sentences, with the army and frontlines offered as their only escape. There, they are likely to face DEATH OR DISABILITY,” he shared.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor wondered whether the US should be prepared “to go to war 7,000 miles away from our home in a country that […] never has been against another country; that frankly is not our enemy.”