Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,272 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Tuesday, August 19:
Politics and diplomacy
- United States President Donald Trump mentioned he had a “good assembly” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders on the White Home on Monday.
- Trump mentioned the leaders mentioned safety ensures that might be offered to Ukraine by European nations in “coordination with” the US.
- Zelenskyy mentioned US involvement within the safety ensures was “a serious step ahead”, and that particulars could be “formalised on paper inside the subsequent week to 10 days”.
- Zelenskyy additionally instructed reporters that his nation had supplied to purchase $90bn value of US weapons.
- Finland’s President Alexander Stubb mentioned the safety ensures mentioned had been just like the Article 5-type ensures supplied to NATO members, however that particulars nonetheless wanted to be ironed out.
- A Kremlin aide mentioned Trump spoke with Putin on the cellphone for 40 minutes after his assembly with Zelenskyy and the European leaders, and that the 2 leaders mentioned the potential of rising the extent of Russian and Ukrainian representatives throughout talks.
- Trump mentioned he had begun making preparations for a bilateral summit between the Russian chief and Zelenskyy, with trilateral talks involving the US president to observe.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz mentioned a gathering between Putin and Zelenskyy may happen inside two weeks.
- French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned Trump believes Putin “additionally needs a peace accord” however that if the “course of is met by refusal, we’re additionally able to say that we have to improve sanctions [on Russia]”.
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer instructed the BBC that the talks led to a “vital breakthrough” as a result of “we at the moment are going to be working with the US on these safety ensures.”
Combating
- Ukrainian authorities mentioned Russian assaults earlier than the talks killed 14 individuals throughout the nation. This features a drone assault on an condominium constructing in Kharkiv that killed a minimum of seven individuals. Thirty others had been wounded.
- The victims on Monday additionally included three individuals who had been killed in a ballistic missile strike on the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, the regional governor mentioned, including that one other 23 had been wounded.
- Ukraine’s air power mentioned Russia launched a complete of 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 140 Shahed and decoy drones throughout Ukraine in a single day, of which 88 drones had been shot down or jammed.
- In Russia, falling particles from a Ukrainian drone shot down by Russian forces set off fires in a hospital constructing and on the grounds of an oil refinery, south of the town of Volgograd, regional governor Andrei Bocharov mentioned in a put up on Telegram.
- Russian forces destroyed 141 Ukrainian drones and 4 guided aerial bombs in a 24-hour interval, Russia’s state-run information company TASS reported on Monday, citing Russia’s Defence Ministry.
