The deliberations come even as President Donald Trump and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha publicly maintained on Tuesday that intelligence cooperation was continuing. Trump told reporters that "we have not stopped" and are "helping them and sharing intelligence with them," while Sybiha attributed delayed air raid alerts in Kyiv to the specific weaponry Russia used. US officials separately told Politico that bad weather prevented an advance warning ahead of Monday's missile strike on the Ukrainian capital.
Despite those assurances, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine received no early warning from international partners for a second consecutive night as Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones and loitering munitions overnight into Wednesday. The barrage killed at least five civilians across Kyiv and the Dnipro region, damaged 26 power facilities including Kyiv's CHP-4 plant and four oil and gas sites, and knocked out electricity to at least 600,000 people. Calling the assault on infrastructure covered by Trump's announced energy truce an unprecedented display of "ostentatious disrespect toward the United States," Zelenskyy urged Washington to impose sanctions and supply more Patriot interceptors.