Overview
- Over the past week Russia launched nearly 1,550 attack drones, more than 1,260 guided aerial bombs, and two missiles, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
- Zelensky argued that an easing of sanctions let Russia increase crude oil sales that help finance its war.
- Ukraine and the European Union are developing rules to stop, block, and confiscate oil carried by shadow fleet tankers.
- France’s navy last week seized a tanker in the western Mediterranean that President Emmanuel Macron identified as part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
- US-Ukraine talks resumed in Florida without Russian representatives, with the US team led by envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, as discussions touch on a possible Ukrainian election despite wartime legal limits.