President Donald Trump asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin appears prepared to negotiate an end to the conflict in Ukraine, despite Moscow’s warning that any Western forces tasked with overseeing a future peace settlement could be treated as legitimate military targets.
‘I urge Vladimir, it is time to stop. It is time for this war to end,’ Trump told Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst during a Tuesday interview.
He indicated that Putin is willing to finalize a settlement.
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Combat continues across Ukraine and territories held by Russian forces. The escalating drone conflict has prompted both sides to seek novel methods for neutralizing unmanned aerial systems, including the repurposing of legacy hardware. In a recent East2West video, a Russian serviceman is shown losing control of a Soviet‑era Yak‑B‑12.7 rotary cannon mounted on a makeshift ground platform.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump meet in 2019, before their relationship began to sour. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The mounted weapon begins spinning uncontrollably, whirling the operator around before catapulting him several yards away. A fellow soldier is captured on video ducking as the barrel swings toward him.
East2West reported that nobody was injured, although Fox News Digital has not independently confirmed the location, date, or context of the recording.
Initially designed for installation on the Soviet‑era Mi‑24 Hind attack helicopter, the four‑barrel gun is now being explored by Russian forces as a ground‑based counter‑drone weapon, according to East2West.
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An explosion lights up the sky over the city during a Russian missile and drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 2, 2026. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova declared that any multinational peacekeeping force fielded by Ukraine’s partners after a ceasefire would be unacceptable to Russia.
‘We would consider such units legitimate military targets,’ Zakharova stated, according to a Reuters report released the same day.
Western members of the “coalition of the willing” reiterated at a Paris meeting this week their intention to deploy a multinational force once hostilities cease. The contingent aims to bolster Ukraine’s security and support the nation’s military reconstruction.
Ukraine’s armed forces announced on Wednesday that they had targeted the Balaklava thermal power station in Russian‑occupied Crimea, a critical facility responsible for roughly half of the peninsula’s electricity output, Reuters reported.
In parallel, Russia carried out another large‑scale drone and missile strike on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, resulting in three fatalities, regional governor Oleh Kiper reported. He noted that civilian, industrial, and port infrastructure had been hit across five consecutive days of assaults.
Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a vehicle fire following a Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on May 5, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP)
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Wednesday that Ukraine intends to achieve domestic production of missiles compatible with U.S. Patriot air‑defense systems by the end of 2026.
Reuters contributed to this story.
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