Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 272 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here are the key events of day 1 272 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here’s how things are on Tuesday August 19:

Politics and diplomacy

• US President Donald Trump said he had a “good meeting” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European White House leaders on Monday.
• Trump said the leaders had discussed security guarantees that would be provided to Ukraine by European countries in “coordination with” the United States.
• Zelenskyy said that participation in the United States in security guarantees was “a step forward”, and that details would be “formalized on paper in next week at 10 days”.
• Zelenskyy also told journalists that his country had offered to buy $ 90 billion in American weapons.
• Finland President Alexander Stubb said that the security guarantees discussed were similar to type 5 guarantees offered to NATO members, but that details were to be repelled.
• An assistant from the Kremlin said Trump had spoken with Putin on the phone for 40 minutes after meeting Zelenskyy and European leaders, and that the two leaders discussed the possibility of increasing the level of Russian and Ukrainian representatives during talks.
• Trump said he had started to make arrangements for a bilateral summit between Russian chief and Zelenskyy, with trilateral talks involving the American president to follow.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy could take place within two weeks.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump thought that Putin “also wants a peace agreement” but that if the “process is respected by refusal, we are also ready to say that we must increase sanctions (on Russia)”.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the BBC that talks had led to a “important breakthrough” because “we will now work with the United States on these security guarantees”.

Struggle

• Ukrainian authorities said Russian attacks before the talks killed 14 people across the country. This includes a drone attack on a building in Kharkiv which killed at least seven people. Thirty others were injured.
• Monday’s victims also included three people killed in a ballistic missile strike in the southeast city of Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor said, adding that 23 others had been injured.
• The Air Force of Ukraine said that Russia had launched a total of four ISKANDER-M ballistic missiles and 140 Shahed and lure drones across Ukraine during the night, including 88 drones were slaughtered or blocked.
• In Russia, the fall in debris of a Ukrainian drone shot down by the Russian forces sparked fires in a hospital building and on the land of an oil refinery, south of the city of Volgograd, said regional governor Andrei Bocharov in a post on Telegram.
• The Russian forces destroyed 141 Ukrainian drones and four guided air bombs during a 24 -hour period, the state’s news agency managed by the State, quoting the Russia Ministry of Russia said on Monday.