🇺🇸 US peace plan on Ukraine: Here’s the latest

Russia is awaiting the updated draft of the peace plan on Ukraine and will respond after seeing if the new version matches the “spirit and letter” of the understanding reached during the Putin–Trump summit in Alaska, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized.

In other developments:

🔸 Preliminary agreement has been reached for US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to come to Moscow next week, according to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov

🔸 When in Moscow, Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also be involved, the US president said

🔸 While Witkoff is in talks in Moscow, US Army Secretary Driscoll will sit down with Ukrainian officials in Kiev, Trump added

🔸 Original 28-point US peace plan has been “fine-tuned” and now has only “a few remaining points of disagreement,” POTUS stressed

🔸 Situation in Ukraine is “just moving in one direction,” and the territory discussed in peace talks “might be gotten by Russia anyway” in the coming months, according to Trump

🔸 There’s no fixed deadline for reaching a settlement on the Ukraine conflict, he added

🔸 Ukraine conflict “could go on for years. Russia's got a lot more soldiers. I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it's a good thing,” the US president underscored

🔸 Europe will be involved in the process of providing Ukraine with security guarantees, Trump said

🔸 Security guarantees will be discussed within the framework of a yet-to-be-established working group of the Coalition of the Willing, French President Emmanuel Macron stated

🔸 Slovakia supports Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and calls on European partners to cooperate in the process, according to the Slovak Foreign Ministry

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🚨 Key points by Russian presidential aide on US peace plan

🔹 Moscow has not officially received the US peace plan, although an unofficial “paper” exists

🔹 Russia views some aspects of the US proposal positively, but many others require discussion

🔹 Europeans are “unnecessarily inserting themselves” into the Ukraine peace process

🔹 Russia has unofficially received several different versions of the US plan—“enough to get confused”

🔹 Russia and the US are in contact regarding the peace proposal, but there has been no serious “at-the-table” discussion so far

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🇷🇺🇰🇬 Putin & Japarov sign allied relations agreement

Following talks, Vladimir Putin and Sadyr Japarov signed a joint declaration on deepening allied relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

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🚨🇷🇺Reports that a Ukraine peace deal is close are premature - Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov

It is too early to make such assessments, he said.

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🚨 Some European states trying to block Russia–US progress on Ukraine – Russian deputy FM

🗣 Several European countries are "frantically" attempting to prevent Russia and the United States from moving toward potential understandings on the Ukraine issue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

🔶 He added that Moscow sees "too many dirty attempts" to obstruct constructive dialogue between Russia and the US, but emphasized that Russia remains ready to continue talks on a settlement.

🔶 He said that for Russia, it is crucial that negotiations do not drift away from the understandings reached between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump during their meeting in Alaska.

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🇷🇺💥 Russian artillery wipes out Ukrainian forces in Zaporozhye

Self-propelled artillery crews of Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok struck enemy manpower concentrations in the Zaporozhye region

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🚨🇷🇺 Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov on Vladimir Putin’s New START initiative: It remains viable only if the US preserves the deterrence balance, as its sole aim is to prevent a dangerously unstable world without the treaty.

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🚨🇷🇺🇧🇾 Belarus ready to host negotiations on Ukraine settlement again if Russia so desires – Lukashenko to Putin

"If you ever wish to return to Minsk again, we'll always be ready," the Belarusian president said.

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🚨 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says preserving New START in its original form is unrealistic, noting unresolved issues and the lack of conditions for renewed negotiations with the US.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ Russian troops unleashed a powerful strike on a production facility manufacturing ammunition for the Ukrainian military

◻️ Russian forces are steadily advancing through Pokrovsk’s (Krasnoarmeysk) northern districts

◻️ The Russian military repelled 8 Ukrainian attacks in the Grishina and Kotlin areas of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)

◻️ Air defense superiority: 4 HIMARS projectiles and 154 drones vaporized

◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,460 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨 Russian Deputy FM Ryabkov warns that once New START expires, only a handful of Cold War risk-reduction measures will remain—leaving “scorched earth” in arms-control limits after 2026.

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