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President Donald Trump said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is fresh to scope an statement ending nan warfare successful Ukraine, moreover arsenic Moscow warned Wednesday that Western troops deployed to enforce immoderate eventual bid woody would go Russian subject targets.
"I say, ‘Vladimir, it’s clip for you to stop. It’s clip for this warfare to end,’" Trump told Fox News main overseas analogous Trey Yingst successful an question and reply released Tuesday.
Trump said he believed Putin was "ready to make a deal" to extremity nan fighting.
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Meanwhile, fighting continued crossed Ukraine and Russian-occupied territory. The intensifying drone war has forced some militaries to hunt for further ways to intercept unmanned craft — sometimes utilizing weapons designed decades earlier modern drones emerged, arsenic seen successful nan video supplied by East2West that shows a Russian worker apparently losing power of a Soviet-era YakB-12.7 rotary instrumentality weapon mounted connected an improvised crushed platform.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump meet successful 2019, earlier their narration began to sour. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The limb originates spinning violently, dragging nan work personnel astir earlier throwing him respective yards from nan mounting. Another worker is seen ducking arsenic nan weapon swings successful his direction.
East2West reported that nary 1 was injured, though Fox News Digital has not independently verified nan location, day aliases circumstances of nan footage.
The four-barrel instrumentality weapon primitively was developed for usage aboard nan Soviet-designed Mi-24 Hind onslaught helicopter. Russian forces person reportedly attempted to repurpose specified weapons arsenic ground-based defenses against Ukrainian drones, East2West news reported.
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An detonation lights up nan entity complete nan metropolis during a Russian rocket and drone strike, amid Russia's onslaught connected Ukraine, successful Kyiv, Ukraine July 2, 2026. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said immoderate multinational unit deployed by Ukraine’s friends pursuing a ceasefire would beryllium unacceptable to Moscow.
"We would respect specified units arsenic morganatic subject targets," Zakharova said, according to a Reuters study published Wednesday.
Members of nan Western "coalition of nan willing" reaffirmed astatine a gathering successful Paris this week that they intend to deploy a multinational unit aft hostilities end. The projected unit would activity to reassure Ukraine and thief Kyiv rebuild its military.
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Ukraine’s subject said Wednesday that its forces struck nan Balaklava thermal powerfulness position successful Russian-occupied Crimea, a installation that accounts for astir half of nan peninsula’s energy generation, according to Reuters.
Russia, meanwhile, launched different awesome drone and rocket onslaught against Ukraine’s confederate Odesa region, sidesplitting 3 people, location politician Oleh Kiper said. He said civilian, business and larboard infrastructure had been targeted during 5 consecutive days of Russian attacks.
Emergency services unit activity to extinguish a conveyance occurrence pursuing a Russian drone onslaught successful nan Kyiv region, Ukraine, connected May 5, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy besides said Wednesday that Ukraine expects to create nan method capacity to manufacture missiles for U.S.-made Patriot air-defense systems by nan extremity of 2026.
Reuters contributed to this story.
Efrat (Effie) Lachter is an investigative journalist, filmmaker and warfare correspondent. She has directed and produced complete 200 documentary segments crossed much than 40 countries. Recipient of nan 2022 Peres Center for Peace Award, Lachter is besides a 2023-24 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow astatine nan University of Michigan. She holds a bachelor's grade successful connection and a master's grade successful governmental science.
