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The Pentagon has launched a sweeping $1 billion initiative to purchase hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones over the next two years, a major shift toward mass-fielding lower-cost unmanned systems, according to  The War Zone .

Secret US–Russia peace talks inside the Kremlin dragged past midnight but ended without a breakthrough, with Vladimir Putin rejecting key American proposals as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and independent analysts warned that Moscow’s claims of progress don’t match battlefield reality.