Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,270

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, August 17:

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to frost the beforehand lines successful Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhia regions if Kyiv ceded afloat power of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, during his meeting with United States President Donald Trump connected Friday, according to respective media outlets, including The New York Times and the AFP and Reuters quality agencies.
• Trump informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the connection during a telephone call, but Zelenskyy rejected the demand, Reuters reported
• Trump described the meeting with Putin arsenic “a large and precise palmy time successful Alaska!” and told Fox News that Ukraine should marque a woody to extremity the war with Russia due to the fact that “Russia is simply a precise large power, and they’re not”.
• The US president besides said helium agreed with Putin that a bid statement should beryllium sought without a anterior ceasefire, marking a alteration successful his presumption earlier the summit.
• “The champion mode to extremity the horrific warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine is to spell straight to a Peace Agreement… and not a specified Ceasefire Agreement, which often times bash not clasp up,” Trump wrote successful a station connected Truth Social.
• Zelenskyy, who was not invited to the acme successful Alaska, said successful a station connected X that Russia’s unwillingness to intermission the warring would complicate efforts to forge a lasting peace.
• Nevertheless, helium said helium volition conscionable with Trump successful Washington, DC, on Monday. “I americium grateful for the invitation,” Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.
• A fig of European leaders person besides been invited to attend, a European Union root told the AFP quality agency.
• European leaders, including from France, Germany and the United Kingdom, promised to support the unit connected Russia done sanctions and called for “ironclad” information guarantees for Ukraine. They besides said they were acceptable to enactment towards a three-way acme betwixt Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told German media that the US was consenting to beryllium portion of information guarantees for Ukraine and that helium and different European leaders volition beryllium speaking with Zelenskyy connected Sunday to hole him for the White House gathering with Trump.
• The EU’s apical diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said that portion “Trump’s resoluteness to get a bid woody is vital… the harsh world is that Russia has nary volition of ending this warfare anytime soon”, successful a station connected X.
• The Leaders of the Nordic Baltic Eight radical of countries issued a associated statement, reiterating enactment for Ukraine and saying that “a conscionable and lasting bid requires a ceasefire” and that “experience has shown that Putin cannot beryllium trusted”.

Fighting

• Meanwhile, the warring continued to rage successful Ukraine, with the country’s Air Force saying it changeable down 61 of 85 Russian drones overnight, portion Russian missiles and drones deed 12 locations crossed the country.
• The Ukrainian General Staff said its forces had pushed Russian forces backmost by astir 2km (1.2 miles) connected portion of the Sumy beforehand successful bluish Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian subject besides said that Russian forces had seized Popiv Yar, southwest of Dobropillia, and Ivano-Darivka, northeast of Sloviansk successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to the Kyiv Independent.
• Russian attacks injured 13 people, including aesculapian workers and a constabulary officer, successful Ukraine’s Kherson region, Ukraine’s subject said successful a station connected Telegram aboriginal connected Saturday.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone onslaught killed a 52-year-old antheral and his 13-year-old son, successful the Rylsky territory of the Russian Kursk region, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said successful a station connected Telegram connected Saturday.
• Russian forces besides changeable down 5 Ukrainian guided aerial bombs and 169 drones successful 1 day, Russia’s authorities quality bureau TASS reported connected Saturday.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies