The ball is in Vladimir Putin’s court today after the US and Ukraine reached a ceasefire proposal at a meeting in Saudi Arabia, in what marked a dramatic change of tone in Washington-Kyiv relations.

Kyiv said it is ready to accept a US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was now up to the US to convince Russia.

So what is Putin’s next move? Kamal and Camilla ask Kremlinologist Emily Ferris about the Russian president’s thinking and whether there is any kind of succession plan in Moscow.

Elsewhere, in a remarkable development, it transpires that the captain of the Portuguese-flagged ship that crashed into an oil tanker transporting American fuel in the North Sea on Monday was Russian. We ask former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe about this latest twist.

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