"President Volodymyr Zelensky met U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss a renewed diplomatic effort to end Russia's war against Ukraine.
"It was a good meeting," Zelensky said. "The President and I discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor production and several other ideas that could help. We also spoke about diplomacy — it's important that the diplomatic process be reinvigorated. Our teams will arrange the details of their further communication."
The meeting began at 9:47 a.m. Washington time (4:47 p.m. Kyiv time), lasted about an hour, and was held behind closed doors, a White House official said." KI
"Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall, paper mill and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 13 people and left many missing in southwestern Japan.
Bullet train services and some airport operations remained suspended and damage was still being assessed a day after the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu." msn
"Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group says it has fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi oil tanker, more than a week after imposing a naval blockade on Saudi vessels in the Red Sea.
In a post on X, Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, said the group had “carried out a military operation targeting the Saudi oil tanker (NCC GHAZAL) for violating the maritime navigation ban” that the group had imposed on Saudi vessels." msn
"A strong magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean 144 km (89 mi) from Tonga around noon at 1.47 pm local time (GMT +13). The depth of the quake could not be determined, but is assumed to be shallow. The quake was not felt (or at least not reported so)." VD
"A strong magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit 16.9 km (10 mi) away from Honmachi, Kumamoto,
Japan, in the afternoon at 5.08 pm local time (GMT +9). The depth of the quake could not be determined, but is assumed to be shallow. The quake was reported felt by some people near the epicenter." VD
"A strong magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean 147 km (91 mi) from Peru in the morning at 8.24 am local time (GMT -5). The quake had a very shallow depth of 9.7 km (6 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so)." VD
"272 combat clashes were reported between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the front lines.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors, one combat engagement took place: the aggressor carried out three airstrikes, dropped five aerial bombs, and launched 66 artillery attacks, including one with MLRS.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, the enemy attacked the positions of our units 20 times near the settlements of Chaikivka, Kozacha Lopan, Izbytske, Anyshchyne, Ambarne, Zapadne, Khatne, and Kolodiazne, as well as in the areas surrounding the settlements of Starytsia and Lyman.
In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy carried out three attacks toward the settlements of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Shyikivka, and near Petropavlivka.
In the Lyman sector, the enemy made 13 attempts to break through toward Drobysheve, Lyman, Ozerne, Stavky, and near Novoselivka, Novomykhailivka, and Hrekivka.
In the Sloviansk sector, Russian forces launched 19 assaults in the areas of Kryva Luka, Zakitne, Riznykivka, and toward Rai-Oleksandrivka and Pyskunivka.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Russian invaders carried out four attacks in the areas of Pryvillia, Nykyforivka, and toward Malynivka.
In the Kostiantynivka sector, the enemy carried out 31 attacks in the areas of Kostiantynivka, Illinivka, Ivanopillia, Rusyn Yar, and toward Stepanivka.
In the Pokrovsk sector, the Defense Forces repelled 37 assaults by the aggressor in the areas of Vasylivka, Kotlyne, Udachne, Novomykolaivka, Molodetske, Chernihivka, Novooleksandrivka, and toward Toretske, Novopavlivka, Kucheriv Yar, Vilne, Svitle, Shevchenko, Bilytske, Matiasheve, Novyi Donbas, and Novohryshyne.
In the Oleksandrivka sector, the enemy carried out one attack in the Voskresenka area.
In the Huliaipole sector, the invaders carried out 20 attacks toward Kosivtseve, Vozdvyzhivka, Rizdvianka, Staroukrainka, Tsvitkove, Charivne, Novoselivka, and in the Zaliznychne area.
In the Orikhiv sector, defenders repelled four enemy attempts to advance in the areas of Stepove, Shcherbaky, Plavni, and toward Pavlivka.
In the Prydniprovske sector, the enemy did not conduct any offensive operations." Ukrin
