The day was dominated by a diplomatic overture in the Ukraine war. In the evening, Zelensky published an open letter to Putin proposing a meeting to end the conflict, and the Kremlin responded by inviting him to Moscow. Putin suggested Schröder as mediator and expressed readiness for a peaceful solution. Trump welcomed the development. This story eclipsed earlier coverage of a UNIFIL peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon, which had complicated a fragile Israel-Lebanon truce rejected by Hezbollah. The US House voted to withdraw troops from Iran, though Trump dismissed limits on his war powers. The Minetti pardon case resurfaced with a Quirinale statement upholding the decision. Marjane Satrapi's death was widely mourned.