The United States is pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to reconsider his stance against negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reports. The effort is intended as a means to maintain international support, not necessarily to induce bargaining between the warring nations.
Ukraine live briefing: U.S. nudges Kyiv to ease negotiation stance; Zelensky calls out Iran on drones
A Ukrainian presidential adviser called for retaliatory strikes against Iranian weapons manufacturing facilities after Iran acknowledged publicly for the first time that it had given Russia deadly drones — albeit, it said, before the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion began in February. Zelensky said Tehran’s “confession” was false, after weeks of attacks on Ukrainian territory by Iranian Shahed drones.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
4. From our correspondents
Russia strips climate advocate of citizenship: Climate activist Arshak Makichyan, 28, who fled Russia to Berlin in March after the invasion of Ukraine, is no longer Russian, according to the government. A Moscow court stripped Makichyan along with his father and his brother — who both remain in Russia — of their citizenship, in what appears to be payback for his public antiwar statements.
Makichyan, who is Armenian by birth, immigrated to Russia as a baby in 1995 and holds only a Russian passport, meaning the decision has rendered him effectively stateless, Francesca Ebel reports.
Source: WP
