Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy not on Trump’s G7 bilateral meeting list, official says
US president will reportedly hold bilateral talks with Qatar, UAE and India but not Ukraine; Russian gains in Ukraine ‘more or less stopped’, says official. What we know on day 1,572
TL;DR
- Donald Trump will participate in a G7 working session with Volodymyr Zelenskyy but will not have a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian president.
- Trump has scheduled bilateral meetings with leaders of France, Qatar, the UAE, Egypt, and India on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
- A senior US official stated that Russian gains in Ukraine have 'more or less stopped' and expressed a desire for the war to end quickly.
- A Ukrainian drone attack in Russia's Krasnodar region killed one person and injured three, reportedly sparking a fire at a sea terminal.
- Ukraine's general staff claimed to have hit an oil preparation and pumping station in Russia's Volgograd region.
- Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was reconnected to the grid after an IAEA-brokered ceasefire allowed for repairs.
- The Zaporizhzhia plant experienced a prolonged power loss, its 19th since the war began, forcing reliance on diesel generators to cool its reactors.