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- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte pledged additional support for Ukraine after Russian drone strikes hit close to the Poland border, saying the 32-nation alliance will not be deterred and will beef up its eastern defences with Russia.
- Russian drones struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border on Sunday — minutes after a diplomatic delegation including former British PM Boris Johnson and former Swedish PM Carl Bildt had passed through the station, according to Ukraine's state rail operator.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned Moscow appears poised to intensify its campaign targeting Ukraine's western borders and said Poland cannot rule out escalation affecting its own territory; Polish forces recovered a suspected Russian drone from the Baltic Sea near the village of Jaroslawiec.
- President Trump claimed on social media that Ukraine and Russia have agreed not to hit each other's energy infrastructure, though neither government has confirmed the claim and the Kremlin separately insisted Kyiv must cede territory and demilitarise first.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is ready to halt strikes on Russia if partners guarantee Moscow will refrain from hitting Ukrainian energy facilities, infrastructure, and food supply routes — calling it 'a first step towards peace.'
- EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the attacks near Poland were 'clearly meant to scare Western countries from supporting Ukraine,' adding: 'We should show that we are there for Ukraine and we are not scared.'
Why it matters: The strikes have moved the war into NATO's immediate neighbourhood, with Tusk openly raising the prospect of spillover onto Polish territory. Rutte, Kallas and Tusk have each publicly committed to escalating rather than retreating from support for Kyiv — a coordinated pushback against Russia's apparent attempt to use proximity threats to splinter the alliance. Meanwhile, Trump's unverified claim of a mutual energy-strike pause is diverging from both Rutte's hard line and Zelenskyy's conditional offer, injecting a competing US narrative into an already fragile moment.
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