Only a handful of courses at the military’s service academies have been eliminated to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to scrub diversity programming from their campuses, the academies’ superintendents told a Senate subpanel hearing Wednesday.

Macron spoke after talks with Ukraine’s president and ahead of a summit in Paris of some 30 nations on Thursday that will discuss the proposed force for Ukraine that Macron suggested could be deployed in “important towns” and elsewhere.

The U.S. military on Wednesday welcomed a new brigade in Romania to continue the mission aimed at deterring potential Russian aggression along NATO’s eastern flank.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told journalists in Poland that he had seen reports that the soldiers had perished. A spokesperson for the alliance later walked back Rutte’s statement.

Ukraine’s president says his country will proceed with a ceasefire prohibiting attacks on energy infrastructure following a deal brokered by the U.S. However, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia would face “strong retaliation” if it strikes Ukrainian energy facilities.

Russia is scheduled to receive deliveries of chemical ingredients critical to the manufacture of explosives, ordered from fertilizer companies that have largely escaped international sanctions, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

Lt. Gen. Joseph Ryan said the service is far behind in taking into account new fiber-optic drone technology that defies jamming and has transformed the battlefield in Ukraine.

President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist since 1994, relying on subsidies and political support from Russian President Vladimir Putin, an alliance that helped Lukashenko weather unprecedented protests over the 2020 election. Some observers say Lukashenko could now try to mend ties with the West.

The United States says it has reached a tentative agreement for Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea in separate talks with both sides, but many details were unresolved, and the Kremlin made the deal conditional on lifting some Western sanctions.

When Jim Matchin visits the home of his former unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he sees memorials to fallen soldiers from World War II and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matchin, who served with the unit during the Vietnam War, is now working to honor those from his generation.

Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half of his 15 months as a POW enduring the harsh conditions at Stalag Luft IV in Poland. Over the weekend, the 101-year-old returned for the first time since he left eight decades ago.

U.S. negotiators worked on a proposed partial ceasefire in the three-year-old war in Ukraine on Monday, meeting representatives from Russia one day after holding separate talks with a team from Kyiv.

The Polish-built barracks at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area can accommodate more than 1,700 soldiers, the Army’s V Corps said. About 1,000 troops are scheduled to move in this month.

North Korea is using its support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to test weapons it could deploy against the South in a future conflict, Ukraine’s ambassador to Seoul said.

Talks in Riyadh between Ukrainian and U.S. officials, part of an effort to end Russia’s three-year invasion of its neighbor, started on Sunday afternoon, Ukraine’s defense minister said.

Vance and one of her three children will be part of a U.S. delegation that will “visit historic sites” and “learn about Greenlandic heritage.”

Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight Sunday that killed at least seven people, according to local Ukrainian officials and emergency services.

The annual event was designed to be held for 10 years until this year’s 50th anniversary of the end of combat operations in Southeast Asia, with subsequent Memorial Day ceremonies dedicated to veterans from the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan.

The British government on Saturday ordered an investigation into the country’s “energy resilience” after an electrical substation fire shut Heathrow Airport for almost a day and raised concerns about the U.K.’s ability to withstand disasters or attacks on critical infrastructure.