Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 270 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here are the key events of day 1 270 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here’s how things are on Sunday August 17:

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to freeze the front lines in the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia of Ukraine if Kyiv yielded full control of Ukraine Donetsk and the regions of Luhansk, during his meeting On Friday, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, according to several media, including the New York Times and the AFP and Reuters press agencies.
• Trump informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the offer during a phone call, but Zelenskyy rejected the request, reported Reuters
• Trump described the Meet Putin Like “a great day very successful in Alaska!” And told Fox News that Ukraine should conclude an agreement to put an end to war with Russia because “Russia is very great power, and it is not”.
• The American president also declared that he agreed with Putin that a peace agreement should be constantly requested beforehand, marking a change in his position before the summit.
• “The best way to put an end to the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a peace agreement … and not to a simple ceasefire agreement, which often does not hold,” wrote Trump in an article on Truth Social.
• Zelenskyy, who was not invited to the summit in Alaska, said in an article on X that Russia’s reluctance to suspend the fighting would complicate efforts to forge lasting peace.
• Nevertheless, he said he would meet Trump in Washington, DC, Monday. “I am grateful for the invitation,” said Zelenskyy in an article on X.
• A number of European leaders have also been invited to attend, said a source from the European Union to the AFP news agency.
• European leaders, notably France, Germany and the United Kingdom, have promised to maintain pressure on Russia by sanctions and have called for safety guarantees “in FERR” for Ukraine. They also said they were ready to work with a three -top of Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told German media that the United States was ready to be part of the security guarantees for Ukraine and that he and other European leaders are expressed on Sunday with Zelenskyy to prepare him for the White House meeting with Trump.
• The best diplomat in the EU, Kaja Kallas, said that if “Trump’s determination to obtain a peace agreement is vital … The harsh reality is that Russia does not intend to put an end to this war of soon”, in an article on X.
• The leaders of the Nordic Baltic Eight group in countries have published a joint declaration, reiterating support for Ukraine and saying that “a just and lasting peace requires a cease-fire” and that “experience has shown that Putin cannot trust”.

Struggle

• Meanwhile, the fighting continued to rage in Ukraine, the Air Force in the country saying that it had shot down 61 of the 85 Russian drones during the night, while Russian missiles and drones hit 12 sites across the country.
• The Ukrainian staff said that its forces had rejected the Russian forces by approximately 2 km (1.2 mile) on part of the Sumy front in northern Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian army also said that Russian forces had seized Popiv Yar, southwest of Dobropillia, and Ivano-Darivka, northeast of Slovians in the Ukraine Donetsk region, according to The kyiv Independent.
• Russian attacks injured 13 people, including medical workers and a police officer in the Ukrainian Kherson region, Ukrainian military said on a post on Telegram on Saturday.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack killed a 52 -year -old man and his 13 -year -old son in the Rylsky region in the Russian Kursk region, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said on a Telegram article on Saturday.
• The Russian forces also killed five air bombs guided by the Ukrainian and 169 drones in one day, the state agency of the Russian state reported on Saturday.