Zelenskyy is meeting Starmer, Macron, and Merz in London to decide how to force Putin into a ceasefire.
What pressure to add, which Russian targets to squeeze, and how Europe keeps negotiations moving while Trump is focused on Iran, — The Telegraph. 1/
The summit follows Zelenskyy’s open letter challenging Putin to a face-to-face meeting and a truce along the current front lines.
Putin: “I don’t see any point for now.” 2/
Zelenskyy responded that Russia is “choosing war again.”
Putin does not want peace, so Russia should have less money and face more pressure. 3/
GPS jamming has reached space, and from orbit a single source can blank an entire continent at once, far beyond any jammer on the ground.
Scientists traced short GPS outages across Europe, from Iceland to Italy, to three Russian satellites in at least 3 of 75 cases logged since 2019, NYT. 1/
The disruptions are short, lasting under 10 seconds, but they spread across a continent.
They hit the GPS networks of the U.S., China and the EU. Russia's own system stays untouched. 2/
Richard Bowden of Spanish tech firm GMV said the signal is clearly structured and well designed.
It sits next to a widely used GPS frequency but runs strong enough to bleed over and drown it out. 3/
FT: Zelenskyy invited Roman Abramovich to Kyiv on May 21 and asked him to tell Putin he was ready for their first one-on-one summit after more than four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine tried a direct peace channel. Putin still saw no point in meeting. 1/
Ukraine wanted to prove it takes direct peace talks seriously while the US, which tried to broker a ceasefire, focuses on the Middle East war.
Kyiv also sees leverage in Russia’s slowed offensive, huge casualties, and Ukraine’s deep strikes behind enemy lines. 2/
Kyiv hopes its success in halting Russia’s offensive, now slowed to a crawl, and hitting deep behind enemy lines can push momentum toward an immediate ceasefire.
Putin still believes Russia’s larger resources will eventually wear down Ukraine’s resistance over time. 3/
Snyder: Ukraine is a test of whether people put their country’s interests first or follow the whims of leaders who admire oligarchs and dictators.
People understand that Ukrainians have the right to defend themselves and that they can and should win this war. 1/
Snyder: You're always in history and your choices matter. Not making a choice is also a choice. Trump has weaknesses. He can't win wars, he loses them.
His corruption and greed create vulnerabilities. History won't solve these problems on its own. 2/
Snyder: Trump is trying to blow America’s chance to be a power in the 21st century. The answer is not to reinvent who you are, but to remember who you are and act on it. If enough people do small things together that affirm those values, it will matter. 3/
Russia spent three years flattening Ukrainian cities with glide bombs. Ukraine now has its own.
Kyiv built the Vyrivniuvach "Equaliser" in 17 months, a 500-pound glide bomb designed to strike fortified positions and command posts, The Telegraph. 1/
Russian pilots launched glide bombs from inside Russian airspace, outside the reach of Ukrainian air defenses.
Cheap guidance kits turned old Soviet bombs into precision weapons that destroyed city blocks from Kharkiv to Kherson. 2/
The Vyrivniuvach carries a 500-pound warhead.
Brave1, Ukraine's defense technology platform, says it completed all required trials and uses modern targeting systems and anti-jamming technology designed to counter Russian electronic warfare. 3/