Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,271

Here is however things basal connected Monday, August 18:

Politics and diplomacy

• The leaders of respective European countries announced that they volition accompany Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to conscionable with United States President Donald Trump astatine the White House connected Monday to sermon ending Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
• The leaders accompanying Zelenskyy volition be: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
• White House envoy Steve Witkoff said connected Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to “robust information guarantees” for Ukraine that were “game-changing” astatine a acme with Trump successful Alaska connected Friday.
• Zelenskyy welcomed Witkoff’s announcement, saying it was “a historical determination that the United States is acceptable to instrumentality portion successful information guarantees for Ukraine”. However, helium added that the guarantees “must beryllium developed with Europe’s participation”.
• Macron said that European leaders would inquire “to what extent” Washington would enactment successful the information guarantees connected Monday. Macron besides said that “there is lone 1 authorities proposing a bid that would beryllium a capitulation: Russia”.
• Von der Leyen welcomed the connection arsenic an connection of NATO-style information guarantees from the US, adding that the “coalition of the willing, including the European Union, is acceptable to bash its share”.
• Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova, successful a connection shared connected Telegram connected Sunday, said that Macron’s claims of capitulation were an “abject lie”.
• In an interrogation with CNN, Witkoff besides said that Russia had “made immoderate concessions” successful narration to “all 5 of those regions”, successful an evident notation to the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Crimea.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected NBC that a ceasefire “is not disconnected the table” but “what we yet are aiming for is an extremity to this war”, a time aft Trump said helium was aiming for a bid statement without a anterior ceasefire.
• Trump posted connected his Truth Social level connected Sunday morning, simply saying: “BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA. STAY TUNED!”, without elaborating.

Fighting

• Russian forces killed 5 radical and injured 4 successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said successful a station connected Telegram connected Sunday. The attacks killed 2 radical successful Raiske, 2 much radical successful Sviatohorivka, and 1 idiosyncratic successful Kostiantynivka, Filashkin said.
• Four radical were injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a commercialized installation successful the colony of Rakitnoye successful Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said successful a station connected Telegram connected Sunday.
• Russia’s state-run TASS quality bureau reported connected Sunday that successful total, Ukrainian forces struck 13 locations crossed Belgorod successful 1 day, utilizing 111 drones and 52 munitions.
• TASS besides reported connected Sunday that Russian forces changeable down 4 aerial bombs and 300 drones successful the past day.
• The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed that Ukrainian forces cleared the metropolis of Pokrovsk of Russian forces and occupiers. Ukrainian forces precocious up to 1km (0.6 miles), successful the Yablunivka country of the Sumy region, the General Staff added successful a station connected Telegram connected Sunday.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies