News Wrap: Trump says Putin vows to respond to Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian airfields
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other headlines, President Trump says he had a good conversation today with |
| 0:05.0 | Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that it would not lead to, quote, immediate peace. |
| 0:10.3 | Trump posted on social media that they discussed Ukraine's Sunday attack on Russian aircraft |
| 0:15.2 | and that Putin said Russia needs to respond. |
| 0:18.3 | New satellite images show planes at the Belaya Air Base in eastern Siberia |
| 0:22.3 | before the attack and after, with the ashes of what appear to be Russian bombers on the tarmac. |
| 0:28.6 | Ukraine also released video today from the attack. Officials claimed to have destroyed or damaged |
| 0:33.8 | 41 Russian war planes. Moscow says those estimates are exaggerated. Today, Ukrainian president |
| 0:40.2 | Vladimir Zelenskyy proposed a temporary ceasefire until he and Putin can meet. |
| 0:45.2 | The Russians are not ready for a ceasefire, at least not at the level of the current |
| 0:52.2 | delegations. They believe this is an issue for the leaders to decide. |
| 0:56.0 | They told us directly, the ceasefire is a matter for a different level. |
| 1:00.0 | This comes as the Ukraine contact defense group met in Belgium today |
| 1:04.0 | for the first time without the U.S. Secretary of Defense. |
| 1:08.0 | The Pentagon says that scheduling issues prevented Pete Hegeseth from attending. |
| 1:12.7 | The U.S. has played a leading role in the gathering of Ukraine backers since former defense |
| 1:17.3 | chief Lloyd Austin helped found the group three years ago. Despite his absence from today's |
| 1:22.1 | gathering, Hegseh will meet with NATO defense ministers in Brussels tomorrow. |
| 1:27.2 | A federal judge issued an order today to prevent the deportation of Mohamedan will meet with NATO defense ministers in Brussels tomorrow. |
| 1:27.6 | A federal judge issued an order today |
| 1:29.6 | to prevent the deportation of Mohammed Sabri Soleimans' family. |
| 1:34.0 | He's the Egyptian man charged in this week's firebomb attack |
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