The day's other headlines begin in Moscow, where Russian negotiators say they made progress

in talks with the U.S. to end the war in Ukraine.

How are you, Mr. President?

U.S. envoy Steve Wickoff sat down with Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly

for three hours today.

A Kremlin official said they discussed the possibility of direct talks between Moscow

and Kyiv. All this comes as President Trump continues his push for Ukraine to make major

concessions to end the war. In a Time magazine interview released today, Trump said, quote,

Crimea will stay with Russia. Moscow invaded and occupied Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula back in 2014. In Kiev,

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy paid tribute to victims of a Russian attack earlier this

week, and he said Ukraine could not and would not recognize Crimea as Russian land.

Temporated territories are just temporarily occupied territories are just temporarily occupied, but they all belong to Ukraine.

I think this is absolutely a just and legal position, according to the Ukrainian constitution,

as well as international law.

In eastern Ukraine, officials say a Russian drone struck a residential building overnight,

killing three people in the city of Pablerod.

And outside of Moscow, a car bomb killed a senior military officer,

the second such attack on a top Russian commander in four months.

Russia blamed Ukrainian intelligence for the attack.

Ukrainian authorities did not comment.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged gunfire across the border of the

disputed region of Kashmir today.

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