Russian president makes threats in first war-time visit to Kursk as world waits for Kremlin’s reaction to ceasefire proposal

• Trump hints at financial repercussions if Russia rejects Ukraine ceasefire

French European Affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said the European Union could go further in its response to US tariffs, though a trade war was in no-one’s interest, Reuters reported.

“We have the means to go further, if we want,” Haddad told TF1 TV.