UKRAINE: Three missile strikes landed hours after Moscow said it would negotiate.
Russia told Washington it was ready to resume talks, then sent three separate waves of missiles across Ukrainian cities overnight.
The timing shows Moscow still believes it can negotiate from a position of strength while the front holds.
Watch whether Washington treats the offer as serious or reads the strikes as the actual answer.
◆ Why it matters
Moscow just demonstrated exactly how it plans to enter any negotiation: with force, not concessions. The gap between saying yes to talks and launching triple strikes in the same news cycle tells you Russia expects to bargain while holding territory, not before. Washington now has to decide if the offer is real or theater, and Ukraine gets no vote in that calculation.
Source: BBC World