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Here are the key events of day 1 271 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here’s how things are going on Monday August 18:
Politics and diplomacy
- Leaders of several European countries have announced that They will accompany Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet the President of the United States Donald Trump in the White House on Monday to discuss the end of the Russian war against Ukraine.
- The leaders accompanying Zelenskyy will be: the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the French president Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer, the Finnish president Alexander Stubb, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the secretary general of NATO Mark Rutte.
- The Witkoff Steve Witkoff’s envoy said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday has accepted “robust security guarantees” for Ukraine who “changed the game” at a summit with Trump in Alaska on Friday.
- Zelenskyy praised Witkoff’s announcement, saying that it was “a historic decision that the United States is ready to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine”. However, he added that the guarantees “must be developed with the participation of Europe”.
- Macron said European leaders would ask “to what extent” Washington would participate in security guarantees on Monday. Macron also said that “there is only one state offering peace that would be a capitulation: Russia”.
- Von der Leyen praised the proposal as an offer of NATO-style security guarantees in the United States, adding that the “coalition of willingly, including the European Union, is ready to do its part”.
- Russian spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova, in a shared statement on Telegram on Sunday, said Macron’s capitulation claims were an “abject lie”.
- In an interview with CNN, Witkoff also said that Russia had “made some concessions” compared to “all five regions”, in an apparent reference to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Crimea.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Trump said He aimed at constantly ceaselessly preliminary peace agreement.
- Trump posted on his Truth social platform on Sunday morning, simply saying: “Big progress on Russia. Stay listening! ”, Without developing.
Struggle
- The Russian forces killed five people and injured four in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Sunday on Telegram. The attacks killed two people in Raiske, two other people in Sviatohorivka and a person in Kostiantynivka, said Filashkin.
- Four people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a commercial establishment in the village of Rakitnoye in the Belgorod region in Russia, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on a post on Telegram on Sunday.
- The TASS news agency managed by the State of Russia reported on Sunday that in total, the Ukrainian forces struck 13 locations through Belgorod in one day, using 111 drones and 52 ammunition.
- Tass also reported on Sunday that Russian forces had shot down four air bombs and 300 drones in the last day.
- The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said that the Ukrainian forces had cleaned the city of Pokrovsk from Russian forces and occupants. The Ukrainian forces increased up to 1 km (0.6 mile), in the Yablunivka region of the Sumy region, the general staff added an article on Telegram on Sunday.
