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Ukrainian officials said the attacks appeared aimed at disrupting civilian life in areas where Russian forces were struggling to advance, and looked to be retaliation for Kyiv’s drone and missile strikes on Russian oil and gas facilities. ft.trib.al/QUXShE1

Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said he was dismissed because of his efforts to overhaul the military procurement system in his most explicit comments yet on what prompted his sacking.

Russian missiles and attack drones targeted 10 Ukrainian cities, including the capital of Kyiv, Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih and Lviv in the west. Poland scrambled fighter jets after “radars detected an unidentified object” in its airspace, the country’s Armed Forces Operational Command said.

Selon le @financialtimes.com, la France a fourni du renseignement à l’Ukraine lui permettant de cartographier les défenses antiaériennes russes et d’affiner ainsi les trajectoires des frappes à longue portée en Russie

A pair of Ukrainian FP-1 strike drones break through fire from Russian mobile air-defence teams during yesterday’s attack on Ryazan.

An FT analysis of refinery layouts, photographs, satellite images and thermal-infrared data shows that damage at several major Russian refineries has persisted for weeks or even months after attacks ft.trib.al/yTfCIfY

The US Senate voted 86-12 to advance a bill intended to increase pressure on Vladimir Putin to end his years-long war in Ukraine, in a sign Washington is starting to warm to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ft.trib.al/vQGdfjU

Astonishing detail on Laura Loomer/Ukraine from @christopherjm.ft.com as.ft.com/r/69a6effe-a...

NEW: Why have Ukraine's deep strikes become so effective? Tech innovation is one thing. Deep strike pilots and Commander Robert "Magyar" Brovdi tell me Kyiv has shifted its long-range drone campaign on Russia's energy industry from broad attacks to more targeted strikes on critical components.

The Ukrainian president’s advisers and a person close to the Trump administration said today's meeting in the Oval Office offered Zelenskyy his best chance since Trump began his second term to secure fresh military backing and revive efforts to end Russia’s full-scale war.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Trump at the White House amid growing confidence in Kyiv that the US president has become more supportive of Ukraine. “If Zelenskyy keeps it simple and [does] not overcomplicate things, it will go fine,” said a person familiar with their talks. My FT curtain raiser:

“President Trump wants to be where there’s success,” Zelenskyy said. “That’s tied to many things — not only to his personality, but to the approaching elections, to his status, to his belief in how this war can be ended.” www.ft.com/content/6ca8...

Zelenskyy told me in our @financialtimes.com interview last month that Trump had applauded Ukraine's long-range drone campaign, saying it "is doing very well." Asked whether it was enough to bring Trump firmly to Ukraine's side, Zelenskyy said he felt Trump was viewing the war in a new light.

The Ukrainian president has credited the meeting with Trump on April 26 last year, at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican during the funeral of Pope Francis, with turning around their relationship.

For better or worse, Zelenskyy has always felt he is at his best with Trump when the two men are sitting across from each other. He has said they've come a long way since the disastrous February 2025 meeting in the Oval Office.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday in the Oval Office for around 90 minutes, beginning at 9:30am local time/4:30pm Kyiv. Their latest meeting comes amid what Zelenskyy told me he perceived to be a shift by Trump in Ukraine's favor.

EU officials are hesitant about proposing measures against an Irish alumina factory accused of producing raw materials used to make Russian weapons deployed in Ukraine, for fear of cutting off supplies critical for European industry, @paolatamma.bsky.social and @henryjfoy.ft.com report.

A Canadian woman of Chinese origin who was interning at Nato’s military headquarters in Belgium has been arrested on charges of spying. Arrest is the latest in a long line of espionage attempts in Belgium which hosts Nato civilian and military HQs and the EU as.ft.com/r/44db3c09-c...

Ukraine attacked more Wildberries warehouses in Russia. Founder Tatyana Kim says overnight drone strikes hit company logistics hubs in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk. Crews evacuated staff and some workers were injured, she says. t.me/kimtatyana20...

Ukrainian drones struck another Wildberries logistics center in Russia, this time in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol region. The facility is completely on fire.