Welcome to the NewsHour. We begin with the war in Ukraine and new developments on defense,

diplomacy, and accountability. First defense. Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky,

was in Berlin today, appealing to his country's biggest military backer in Europe.

Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Mertz, offered to help Ukraine build its own long-range missile systems

that could strike deep into Russia, a move Moscow called provocative. Zelensky said the military

muscle is necessary.

You can all see what Putin is doing every night. Massive drone attacks, hundreds of drones.

In order to protect lives

in our cities, we need constant support. Ukraine said that Russia's latest strikes on the city

of Kharkiv overnight killed one person and injured seven others, including a child. That comes as a United Nations panel today found that Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine's

Kheirsan province amounted to crimes against humanity. Its report concluded that, quote,

these acts were committed with the primary purpose to spread terror among the civilian population

in violation of international humanitarian law.

Meantime, back in Washington, President Trump expressed frustration at the timing of recent attacks.

I'm very disappointed at what happened a couple of nights now where people were killed in the middle of what you would call a negotiation.

I'm very disappointed by that.

That frustration comes as Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, pushed a new round of talks for next Monday in Istanbul.

Ukraine has not yet committed to taking part.

A judge in Vermont today ordered the release of a Russian-born

scientist and Harvard researcher saying she was being unlawfully held by immigration authorities.

Kisenia Petrovah, who recently spoke to NewsHour from detention, still faces a criminal charge

of smuggling frog embryos after she failed to declare them at Boston's

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