President Trump spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed Iran, Israeli official says

Alice Weidel says Ukrainian drone strikes inside russia threaten Germany’s security. Not the russian genocide. Not the daily terror attacks. Not the massacres. Not the millions displaced across Europe. Only Ukraine fighting back. Absolutely vile hypocrisy.

MORE: ISW is no longer prepared to forecast when Russian forces might seize Donetsk, including the Fortress Belt, since the slowing rate of Russian advances and the challenging nature of the Ukrainian-held terrain in Donetsk makes it unclear that Russia is capable of seizing the territory at all. ⬇️ Russia’s exaggerated territorial ambitions and aggressive territorial demands run completely counter to battlefield reality. Anonymous sources in contact with Putin and additional sources familiar with the matter as well as a Ukrainian intelligence assessment shared with FT indicate that senior Russian commanders have convinced Putin that Russian forces could seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts by Fall 2026. ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces have only advanced 349.89 square kilometers in Donetsk Oblast since the start of 2026, an advance rate of 2.63 square kilometers per day. Strong Ukrainian fortifications, the area’s challenging human and physical geography, and Ukrainian counterattacks and mid-range strike campaign that are already inhibiting Russian offensive operations across the theater make the prospects for a Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk dim. Russian forces first infiltrated into Kostyantynivka (the Fortress Belt’s southernmost city) in October 2025 and have failed to make any significant tactical gains in the city over the last six months. Ukrainian counterattacks in southern Ukraine since early 2026 have also forced Russia to choose between defending against Ukrainian counterattacks and allocating manpower and resources to priority sectors of the frontline, including the Fortress Belt. Ukraine’s recent successes are accomplishing tactical, operational, and strategic battlespace effects that undermine Putin’s narrative that the Ukrainian frontlines are on the verge of collapse. Two people involved in back-channel negotiations over ending the war told the FT that Putin’s ambitions are still to control all the Ukrainian territory between Russia and the Dnipro River, and possibly farther into Kyiv City and the port of Odesa, despite Russia’s stalling offensive. Putin’s thinking thus appears to be further and further removed from battlefield realities, likely resulting in the issuance of orders to the Russian military to make gains that it is not capable of making.

Darkness continues to descend upon the Russian propaganda matrix, with mainstream propagandist Anastasia Kashevarova saying that Ukraine is "collapsing us" and not only advancing but "winning" due to technological and numerical advantage in drones. She further agrees with the host that even of they announce mobilization, they have nothing with which to arm them.

Putin has just named 82-year-old former German Chancellor Schröder as his preferred negotiator for dialogue between Russia and Europe

"Military hardware wasn't on the square, but on a screen." What I saw at the Victory Day parade on Red Square.

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