Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,272

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, August 19:

Politics and diplomacy

• United States President Donald Trump said helium had a “good meeting” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders astatine the White House connected Monday.
• Trump said the leaders discussed information guarantees that would beryllium provided to Ukraine by European countries successful “coordination with” the US.
• Zelenskyy said US engagement successful the information guarantees was “a large measurement forward”, and that details would beryllium “formalised connected insubstantial wrong the adjacent week to 10 days”.
• Zelenskyy besides told reporters that his state had offered to bargain $90bn worthy of US weapons.
• Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said the information guarantees discussed were akin to the Article 5-type guarantees offered to NATO members, but that details inactive needed to beryllium ironed out.
• A Kremlin adjutant said Trump spoke with Putin connected the telephone for 40 minutes aft his gathering with Zelenskyy and the European leaders, and that the 2 leaders discussed the anticipation of expanding the level of Russian and Ukrainian representatives during talks.
• Trump said helium had begun making arrangements for a bilateral acme betwixt the Russian person and Zelenskyy, with trilateral talks involving the US president to follow.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a gathering betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy could instrumentality spot wrong 2 weeks.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump believes Putin “also wants a bid accord” but that if the “process is met by refusal, we are besides acceptable to accidental that we request to summation sanctions [on Russia]”.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the BBC that the talks led to a “significant breakthrough” due to the fact that “we are present going to beryllium moving with the US connected those information guarantees.”

Fighting

• Ukrainian authorities said Russian attacks earlier the talks killed 14 radical crossed the country. This includes a drone onslaught connected an flat gathering successful Kharkiv that killed astatine slightest 7 people. Thirty others were wounded.
• The victims connected Monday besides included 3 radical who were killed successful a ballistic rocket onslaught connected the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, the determination politician said, adding that different 23 were wounded.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia launched a full of 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 140 Shahed and decoy drones crossed Ukraine overnight, of which 88 drones were changeable down oregon jammed.
• In Russia, falling debris from a Ukrainian drone changeable down by Russian forces acceptable disconnected fires successful a infirmary gathering and connected the grounds of an lipid refinery, southbound of the metropolis of Volgograd, determination politician Andrei Bocharov said successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russian forces destroyed 141 Ukrainian drones and 4 guided aerial bombs successful a 24-hour period, Russia’s state-run quality bureau TASS reported connected Monday, citing Russia’s Defence Ministry.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies