Overview
- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said "peace cannot be capitulation," echoing EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas after reports of a 28‑point plan seeking Ukrainian territorial cessions and a sharp force reduction.
- Details reported by Axios and European outlets describe a proposal to recognize Russia’s control of Crimea and the Donbass, cede parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, cut Ukraine’s army to about 400,000, and curtail long‑range weapons.
- Russia launched one of its largest overnight air campaigns with 476 drones and 48 missiles, with Ukrainian officials reporting at least 26 dead and more than 90 injured in Ternopil and 22 people still missing.
- Romania scrambled fighter jets over a new drone incursion after earlier evacuations of two Danube villages following a strike on a ship carrying LPG near the border.
- As Zelensky sought support in Turkey, the White House emissary Steve Witkoff did not attend talks and U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll met Ukraine’s commander in Kyiv, while the Kremlin declined comment on the reported plan and condemned France’s Rafale commitment to Ukraine.