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President Trump praised the "courageous people of Ukraine" and their "unbreakable spirit" in a letter that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared on X Sunday, as the country marked Independence Day.

The big picture: Trump, who's been pushing for a summit between Zelensky and Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, emphasized in the letter his support for "a negotiated settlement" that leads to "lasting peace." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told NBC in an interview broadcast Sunday "there is no meeting planned" with Zelensky.

Go deeper: Russia "made significant concessions" to Trump on Ukraine talks, Vance says

President Trump has "a lot of cards left to play to apply pressure" to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Vice President JD Vance said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

The big picture: Vance said on NBC News' "Meet the Press" that he didn't think Moscow was stringing Trump along after Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a separate interview on the same show that no leaders' meeting had been planned between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, which the U.S. president has been pressing for.

The number of people in immigration detention has soared by more than 50% since President Trump took office — and that doesn't include thousands more detainees who aren't in the administration's official count, an Axios review finds.

Why it matters: A record 60,000 immigrants are now officially in long-term detention, according to the latest government data, a historic jump from the 39,000 or so who were behind bars at the end of the Biden administration.