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Morning Intelligence – The Gist A day after the Anchorage summit, a sketch of Vladimir Putin’s “peace” plan has surfaced: Russia keeps Donetsk and Luhansk, freezes the Kherson-Zaporizhzhia line and demands NATO renunciation and Crimea recognition, dangling only limited withdrawals in the north.(reuters.com, ft.com) Kyiv reacted with grief and fury as images of a red-carpet…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The Alaska summit put spectacle before substance. Donald Trump emerged praising Vladimir Putin’s “constructive spirit,” yet offered no cease-fire, instead echoing Moscow’s call for a “comprehensive peace” that would freeze Russian gains on the ground. European leaders publicly backed Ukraine within minutes, but privately fear U.S. drift—hence Berlin and Paris…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Overnight, Belgrade’s student-led uprising escalated as riot police fired tear-gas and armoured vehicles into crowds across five Serbian cities, wounding at least 75 officers and arresting 114 people; protesters answered with flares at landmarks still scarred by NATO’s 1999 bombs. (reuters.com, apnews.com, ansa.it) President Vučić blames “foreign-inspired hooligans,”…

Evening Analysis – The Gist The Trump-Putin encounter opening tonight at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is less a photo-op than the first real test of whether Washington can still co-shape Europe’s security order. For the first time since 2019, the two presidents sit alone while artillery still pounds Kharkiv and Russia hints at nuclear-arms talks. Markets…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Good morning. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will sit down in Anchorage at 11:00 a.m. local time today—the first U.S.-hosted U.S.–Russia summit since 2007 and the first Trump-Putin meeting since Helsinki 2018. The White House slotting just six hours on the ground suggests a choreographed photo-op more than a Reykjavik-style…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Good evening, Ukraine’s long-range drones ripped through Russian rear areas again today, wounding at least 16 civilians in Rostov-on-Don and Belgorod and igniting a fire at Volgograd’s Lukoil refinery—just 24 hours before the Trump-Putin cease-fire summit in Alaska.(reuters.com) Kyiv’s strategy is unmistakable: move the battlefield deep inside Russia to erode…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Europe’s late-night video call with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was less a courtesy check-in than a last-ditch attempt to firewall Kyiv’s interests before Friday’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin. Berlin insisted on a pre-summit ceasefire and “robust” security guarantees, while Zelenskyy warned that ceding territory would be unconstitutional and…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Geneva’s overnight draft of the UN plastics-treaty quietly deletes every article on production caps and toxic additives, bowing to a petrochemical bloc led by Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Russia. They have pulled negotiations back to the 1990s mantra of “recycle more,” despite data showing only 9 % of plastic…

Morning Intelligence – The Gist Global markets woke up to a fresh fault-line: Reuters reports that Narendra Modi is scrambling to secure a face-to-face with Donald Trump at next month’s UN General Assembly after the White House doubled U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to 50 percent — a levy unmatched since Smoot-Hawley. (reuters.com) The numbers are brutal.…

Evening Analysis – The Gist Israel’s overnight blitz on Gaza City—and the 11-plus dead it leaves—is no isolated “pressure tactic.” In the past 24 hours the enclave has recorded 89 additional civilian deaths and five starvation fatalities, taking Gaza’s war toll beyond 61,000 and hunger-related deaths to 227, as cease-fire talks in Cairo teeter once…