German Chancellor Friedrich Merz encouraged the president in an Oval Office meeting to help end the war.

But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger. Donald Trump has openly vented in recent weeks about Putin’s unwillingness to end the war. But since Sunday’s attack,

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks.

Russian aircraft were damaged but not destroyed in a June 1 attack by Ukraine, and they will be restored, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the state news agency TASS.