Verdun in the Donbas. The future of Ukraine and Russia, of European security, and of US-Russian relations now all hang on a few small half-ruined towns in the northwestern part of Donetsk province. Indeed, given the continued risk of a radical escalation leading to actual conflict between NATO and Russia, the stakes may be higher even than that.
Zelenskyy said Russian shelling was preventing restoration of a power line needed to cool the reactors and prevent a meltdown. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, said it was working with both sides to restore the external power line. Rafael Grossi said there was no immediate danger as long as diesel generators remained in operation, providing emergency power for the facility.
Ukraine says it will continue targeting Russian infrastructure delivering troops, fuel and ammunition to the front lines. Russia and Ukraine have been engaging in major aerial battles, targeting energy and transportation infrastructure, as Moscow presses its fierce ground assault in the Ukrainian east in the war's fourth year and tests a type of hypersonic weapon. Russia's Ministry of Defence announced on Sunday that its air defences shot down 361 drones, four guided aerial bombs, and rockets from a US-made high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) overnight.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that his country's interceptor drones struck 150 Russian long-range attack and decoy drones in a single night. In his regular public address, Zelenskyy said Russia had launched a total of 810 drones in one wave, including over 400 Shahed loitering munitions. His tally indicates that nearly a fifth of the drone wave was downed that evening by interceptor drones - an emerging low-cost air defense that Ukraine is rushing to produce at scale.
We'll put more there if they want, he said in the Oval Office. We're with Poland all the way, and we'll help Poland protect itself. Nawrocki, a right-wing historian and avid Trump ally who was sworn in as Poland's new president last month, thanked Trump for his commitment to continued cooperation with his country. Those relations for me, for Poland, for Poles, are very important, he said.
Look, President Trump just secured a win with some of the largest tax cuts in history, Luna told Charlie Hurt. Not to mention, he's going to be capping prescription prices. Luna then echoed a misleading claim about monks in Cambodia nominating the president for the Peace Prize. And also, he's continuing to broker world peace, so much so that literally hundreds of monks have nominated him, including world leaders, for the Nobel Peace Prize, she continued.
Any peace deal that would force Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is "bulls-t," heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk told Piers Morgan in a recent interview.
