Overview
- The IRGC Navy warned late Saturday that any vessel nearing the Strait of Hormuz would be treated as a target after Tehran canceled a limited reopening, and UKMTO recorded three attacks on civilian ships.
- Iranian officials said negotiations with the United States show progress but still face large differences, with Pakistan’s army chief relaying U.S. proposals as President Trump convened a Saturday Situation Room meeting and vowed to secure Iran’s highly enriched uranium if no deal is reached before the truce lapses.
- The U.S. Treasury’s sanctions office disclosed Thursday that General License 134B permits transactions for Russian oil already loaded by April 17 through May 16, a narrow waiver that Senate Democrats criticized as weakening pressure on Moscow.
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 166 clashes today and confirmed a strike on Russia’s Atlant Aero drone plant in Taganrog using Neptune missiles, saying the hit would cut UAV output and reduce attacks on civilians.
- Following Saturday’s mass shooting in Kyiv that left six dead and 14 wounded, prosecutors opened a criminal case into suspected police negligence, two officers were suspended, and President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered a review of patrol response protocols.