In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

• Ukraine steps up its campaign against Russia’s shadow fleet as a new naval-drone strike damages another tanker and deepens the financial pressure on Moscow’s wartime oil revenues.

  
  

• A dramatic, clandestine rescue at sea: how a private American team spent 15 hours getting Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado out of the country and safely en route to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

  
  

• NATO’s chief issues a stark warning, urging member states to prepare for the possibility that Russia could target the alliance within five years.

  
  

• And in today’s Back of the Brief — U.S. bombers and Japanese fighter jets fly a show-of-force mission over the Sea of Japan after China and Russia conduct joint drills in the region.

  
  

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