Trump open to join a peace summit in Istanbul with Putin and Zelenskyy, as Russian and Ukrainian negotiators failed to agree on a ceasefire. The White House stressed Trump’s attendance depends on both sides’ serious commitment to peace,

Expectations were low for any breakthrough on ending the three-year-old war after a string of stunning attacks over the weekend.

Putin signed a decree on the requisition of defense enterprises during the war. ISW sees this as preparation for a prolonged conflict with NATO, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Security Council via video link, the Kremlin's press service reports.

In September 2022, Moscow claimed to have annexed the four Ukrainian regions and to this day it does not fully control them. Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Kyiv has repeatedly rejected any suggestion it would surrender the regions.

ANDREI YAKOVLEV is an Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Visiting Research Fellow at SCRIPTS project at Freie Universität Berlin. YURI DANILOV is an independent scholar.

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