The ball is in Vladimir Putin’s court today after the US and Ukraine reached a ceasefire proposal at a meeting in Saudi Arabia.

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. It marks a pretty dramatic change in tone from Washington, which had previously met only with Russian officials to discuss ending the war.

The pause on weapons deliveries to Ukraine has also now officially been lifted. The US secretary of state Marco Rubio spoke to reporters earlier and even seemed to suggest Washington is now considering security guarantees for Ukraine as well.

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, who wrote for The Telegraph about the incident that saw both ships catch fire and the loss of one crew member, about this latest twist.

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