Yerevan Summit, Baltic Oil Strikes, and Britain's Ukraine Loan

Roughly 45 European leaders and Canada's PM converge on Yerevan for an EPC summit dominated by US troop withdrawals, Iran, and Ukraine — with Starmer's team there as part of the broader UK-EU reset. Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Primorsk oil port and shadow-fleet tankers on the Baltic, with Brent crude prices in the crosshairs. Trump threatens deeper troop cuts from Germany as Merz tries to hold the transatlantic relationship together. And Britain moves to join the EU's €90 billion loan for Ukraine — the most significant institutional link between London and Brussels since Brexit.