The United States is pressuring 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 negotiation between the warring nations.
Meanwhile, Iran publicly acknowledged for the first time that it had given Russia deadly drones, although, it said, before the full-scale invasion of the Kremlin began in February. Zelensky called Tehran’s statement a “confession” after weeks of attacks by Iranian Shahed drones.
Here’s the latest on the war and its effects around the world.
4. From our correspondents
Russia revokes citizenship of climate defender: Climate activist Arshak Makichyan, 28, who fled Russia to Berlin in March after the invasion of Ukraine, is no longer Russian, the government says. A Moscow court decided to strip Makichyan of citizenship along with his father and brother, who both remain in Russia, in what appears to be compensation for his public statements against the war.
Makichyan, who is Armenian by birth, immigrated to Russia as a baby in 1995 and only has a Russian passport, meaning the decision has effectively made him stateless, reports Francesca Ebel.