Dismissing threats of fresh American penalties, a high-ranking Kremlin official claimed Russia had grown “immunity” from years of economic constraints. Responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ten-day deadline for Russia to accept a ceasefire in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov remarked, “We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time… our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions.”
Should Moscow miss the deadline for deflating its military activities, President Trump cautioned that Washington would levy new punitive tariffs and other actions.
Meanwhile, as Ukraine declared the arrest of a military officer charged with leaking the sites of Western-supplied fighter planes—including U.S. F16s and French Mirage 2000s—to Russia, tensions grew. According to Ukraine’s domestic security agency, the suspect shared coordinates of airfields housing F-16s, Mirage 2000s, and Su-24 aircraft, thus making them priority targets for Russian attacks.
Particularly those thought to contain Western-supplied military supplies, Russia has regularly targeted Ukrainian airfields and weapons depots.
