NATO’s support for Ukraine remains “unwavering,” the alliance’s secretary-general said Tuesday, emphasizing that more than 20 billion euros — over $22 billion — in security assistance has already been pledged by NATO allies in the first three months of the year.

At least two Department of Defense Education Activity schools gave detentions to students who joined a recent coordinated walkout over efforts to scale back diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to school communications and student accounts.

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters

Both Iranian and U.S. officials did not immediately acknowledge the venue of the second round of negotiations. However, it’s likely that Oman, which hosted the first round of talks on Saturday in Muscat, would continue to mediate between the two sides.

Ukrainian officials said two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday morning hit the city of Sumy, killing at least 34, including two children, and wounding 119. Russia said the strike targeted a gathering of senior military officers and accused Kyiv of using civilians as shields by holding military meetings in the city’s center.

Several thousand U.S. soldiers are headed to Europe for large-scale combat drills.

Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats on Saturday used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure, underscoring the challenges of negotiating an end to the 3-year-old war.

The incident has raised concerns in the U.S. military community near Grafenwoehr and Vilseck that the school deliberately kept students from speaking out against the removal of material deemed to support DEI, a claim that school officials dispute.

The jump on Thursday involved more than 400 soldiers, with 200 of them conducting helocast jumps — descending from helicopters into the water without a parachute — while 226 parachuted from planes. 

British Defense Secretary John Healey said that new pledges of military aid totaled over $24 billion, “a record boost in military funding for Ukraine.” It comes as Ukrainian officials and military analysts believe Russia is preparing to launch a fresh military offensive in coming weeks.