🇻🇦❗️Pope Francis has died of a stroke, the Vatican has confirmed.

The pontiff fell into a coma and suffered irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse.

🇺🇸🇨🇳Trump Wants to Meet Xi Jinping in Person

However, Beijing fears that the Republican will turn the leaders' meeting into a spectacle and wants the US to appoint someone responsible for trade negotiations, Politico writes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Putin confirmed that in Sumy the Russian Armed Forces attacked a facility where Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were being awarded for their "successes" in the Kursk region.

🇺🇦Footage from the Poltava pre-trial detention center, medical unit office.

According to the investigation, the "torture chamber" was set up on the territory of the medical unit. There, people were tied to a metal bed for several days without food, water or toilet.

This is how they “punished” people who refused to cooperate with the administration, violated the rules, or complained about the actions of employees.

💵❗️Gold prices exceeded $3,500 per ounce for the first time in history

🇺🇸❗️Trump promised to reveal the contents of his peace plan for Ukraine this week

📍According to a source for The New York Post, this plan could include the deployment of European troops if a ceasefire agreement is reached.

📍There is also talk about “resilience forces” that should become part of the security guarantees that Kyiv needs.

📍Also under consideration is the creation of a peacekeeping force to monitor the ceasefire – a “joint commission” involving Russia, Ukraine and a third non-NATO country that would monitor the front lines. The US could be involved, but not as a military force on the ground, the source said.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Ukraine is ready for negotiations with Russia in any format after the ceasefire, Zelensky said.

It is also reported that tomorrow the US may offer to officially recognize Crimea as Russia's and freeze the front line as part of a peace agreement

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Freezing the conflict along the current front line was Vladimir Putin's proposal, Western media say

According to their information, Trump expects a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia to be concluded by April 30, by which time Russia will allegedly completely expel the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Kursk region and end military operations.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸❗️ Ukrainian delegation plans to ignore Trump's 'peace plan' in London talks - Axios

The New York Times also reported that Zelensky disrupted the negotiations by refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

US Secretary of State Rubio has cancelled a trip to London, where talks on settling the Ukrainian conflict will take place, amid Zelensky's words about refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸US withdraws from negotiations , says Ukrainian MP Bezugla

An hour earlier, US Secretary of State Rubio cancelled a trip to London, where negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict will take place, against the backdrop of Zelensky's words about refusing to recognize Crimea as Russian.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦The Trump administration has shut down an interagency task force "gathering intelligence on Russian war crimes in Ukraine," the Washington Post reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

The publication added that the position of group coordinator was also abolished.

🇺🇸❗️American billionaire Elon Musk, amid falling profits at his company Tesla, said that starting next month he will reduce his participation in the work of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"My time on DOGE will probably be significantly reduced next month," Musk said on a conference call with investors for his electric car company.

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️EU refuses to lift sanctions against Russia in talks with Americans — Reuters, citing diplomats

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺❗️Russia will never participate in negotiations where the deployment of European troops in Ukraine is discussed — Matviyenko

🇺🇸🇨🇳❗️The Trump administration is considering cutting tariffs on Chinese goods to ease tensions with Beijing, The Washington Post reported.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️The United States has begun to better understand Russia's position on Ukraine, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

"I would say that we have delved into the Russian position. We understand it better now that we have actually talked to them after three years of silence," Rubio said.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️Trump said that Zelensky's statements about not recognizing Crimea as Russian are damaging the negotiations, if he continues to resist, Ukraine will cease to exist in a couple of years

If he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?
— the US president stated

🇷🇺🇺🇦Zelensky's resignation is not among Russia's demands on Ukraine, but any documents he signs could be challenged due to his illegitimacy, Peskov said

He also stated that Ukraine must withdraw its troops from all four regions to end the war . This concerns the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. If Kiev withdraws its troops right now, the conflict will end that very second.

🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️The White House is discussing lifting sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and other Russian assets in Europe as part of discussions on a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.

Five people familiar with the discussions told Politico about this. Later, one of the heroes of the article, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, denied the information.