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Putin said he would accept a ceasefire for energy goals

During a call with President Trump, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he has a Stop to stop energy -infrastructure In Russia’s war with Ukraine, as long as both parties honored it according to the Kremlin. But the Russian leader did not agree with a wider, 30-day ceasefires presented by the US and Ukraine.

President VolodyMyr Zensky van Ukraine said he was open to suspending attacks on energy goals, but he also insisted that the deal was not unilateral. “It cannot be that Russia attacks our energy sector and we will remain silent,” he said. “We will respond.”

Putin told Trump “that the” important situation “to resolve the conflict was an end to military and intelligence aid to Ukraine through the West,” said my colleague Paul Sonne, who is covering Russia. That path, he added, “would Ukraine essentially make Russia constantly vulnerable.”

The White House said that a break about energy strikes would be a first step in the direction of peace, but the outcome of the call with Putin seemed to be shooting well what Trump had suggested that was possible.

Analysis: Stopping attacks on energy goals would benefit both countries. Ukraine has struggled with the repeated attacks of Russia on his power network, and the strikes of Ukraine on Russian oil and gas facilities have endangered a crucial income flow.

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• The US is looking for access to Ukrainian minerals that require extensive energy to process. The Russian controlled Zaporizhzhia energy plant In South Ulraine that goal could help, says Kyiv.

• Russia has considerably increased its sabotage campaign because it tried to put Europe and the US under pressure to curb their support for Ukraine, Found a study.

Israel’s strikes on Gaza have killed more than 400

Israeli troops launched devastating air strikes About the Gaza Strip yesterday, a temporary ceasefire with Hamas ended that started in January and increased the prospect of a return to the total war. More than 400 people, including children, were killed in the strikes, said the Ministry of Health of Gaza, one of the deadly single-day tolls of the war. Here What to know.

The attacks came after weeks of fruitless conversations aimed at expanding the fragile ceasefire. The first phase of the ceasefire went in early March, but it had largely been held when diplomats worked to make an extension to free up the surviving Israeli hostages and end the war. Of the 59 hostages who are still in Gaza, it is assumed that less than half live.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday suggested that Israel would carry out more attacks with negotiations. “This is just the beginning,” he said. “We will continue to fight to achieve all the objectives of the war.” Hamas officials argued that Israel had brutally destroyed the truce, but it had no immediate military reaction.

Analysis: Israel seems have returned to war In an attempt to crush Hamas’s hope to maintain control of Gaza, write Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman.

“For more than two centuries,” said Roberts, “it has been established that accusation is not a suitable answer to a disagreement about a judicial decision.” The judge who was attacked by Trump had ordered the deportation of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador.

Context: The deportation business has emerged as a flash point in a larger debate about presidential power and the role of courts to assess how that power is applied.

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That’s it for today’s briefing. See you tomorrow. – Natasha

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