🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Trump said he hoped to reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to end the war "relatively soon."

I think we are making progress in ending the Russian-Ukrainian war, the US President added.

🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️Witkoff and a senior Iranian leader will hold direct talks on Saturday, US Secretary of State Rubio said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The first footage of the Russian Airborne Forces raising the tricolor in the center of liberated Zhuravka in Sumy Oblast

🇺🇸The fate of penguins on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, against which Trump has imposed tariffs, continues to be one of the most popular topics for memes and videos created by neural networks.

🇪🇺🇨🇳China and the European Union have agreed to start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Reuters reports.

EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič met Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao during a visit to Beijing in late March, and the two sides agreed to resolve the EU tariff dispute through negotiations.

The European Union imposed tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles late last year. Now the European Commission has said it is ready to continue talks with China on an alternative to the tariffs.

🇺🇸A helicopter carrying Siemens' Spanish subsidiary head Agustin Escobar and his family crashed into the Hudson River near Manhattan. All of them, including three children, died.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The Times wrote that the US President's special envoy, General Keith Kellogg, proposed dividing Ukraine into zones of influence between Russia, Britain and France.

In an interview, he compared his plan to the way the victorious powers divided Berlin after World War II. The general later explained that he had not meant to divide Ukraine and claimed that the newspaper had distorted his words.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Witkoff told Trump that the fastest way to a ceasefire in Ukraine is to recognize Russia's sovereignty over the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, Reuters reports.

The agency cited US officials and five people familiar with the situation.

Whitkoff reportedly told the US president this after a meeting with RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev last week.

🌐🇷🇺⚡️Russia is considering the possibility of placing nuclear weapons in space and could use them against Western satellites, NATO Secretary General said

🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian Air Force Loses Another F-16 Fighter

The pilot Pavel Ivanov was killed along with the plane.

🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️Trump signed an executive order extending for one year the sanctions package against Russia that was introduced by Biden.

This is stated in a notice in the US Federal Register.

🇺🇸American assets are losing their "safe haven" status due to tariffs, writes the Axios portal.

The portal also notes that the scale of changes in the global market is not yet clear, since the recent collapse of the stock exchanges may ultimately turn out to be just "a few nervous trading sessions."

🇺🇸⚡️The US has exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from mutual duties, Bloomberg reports.

The article says the Trump administration is trying to protect consumers from "shocking price increases." It could also benefit corporations like Apple and Samsung.

🇺🇦The commander of the 93rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Shamil Krutkov, said that mobilization from the age of 18 in Ukraine may become necessary. According to him, "there are not enough patriots to stop the Russian army," and the decision to conscript from the age of 18 "is long overdue."

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇧🇾Poland is building defensive structures on the border with Russia and Belarus.

In their opinion, the €2 billion Eastern Shield project should protect the borders in the event of an attack.

🇺🇸🇨🇳Trump has made a major new tariff relief. He has exempted smartphones and computers from China from new duties, CNBC reports. They were previously hit with 145 percent tariffs.

Exceptions are also introduced for other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar panels, flat panel television displays, flash drives, memory cards and solid state drives.

These standards appeared in the instructions of the US Customs Service.

Otherwise, the tariffs could impact tech companies like Apple, which makes iPhones and most of its other products in China.

"These goods may eventually be subject to additional tariffs, but they will likely be lower than the 145 percent rate Trump imposed on goods from China," the publication writes.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺🇺🇦All Chinese who fight on the Russian side are volunteers and have no connection to the Chinese government.

This was reported by Reuters, citing US officials.

At the same time, it believes that Chinese army officers are present in the rear of the Russian group, but they themselves do not take part in the combat operations.

The agency writes that there are just over a hundred Chinese fighting in the Russian army. They are taking part in battles for money as mercenaries, the media reports, citing two American officials.

U.S. officials said the Chinese fighters appeared to have minimal training and were not having a significant impact on Russian military operations.

At the same time, Chinese officers located in remote rear areas are trying to "learn tactical lessons from the war."

Earlier, other Western media outlets wrote that China is not centrally sending its military to participate in military operations against Ukraine.

This comes amid Ukraine's accusations against Beijing following the capture of two Chinese in Donbass.