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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has outlined the primary components of a possible settlement to finish the Russo-Ukrainian battle.

Supply: Rubio in an interview with NBC Information, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "Everyone knows what the weather of such a deal [are].

There needs to be discuss what the territories are going to seem like and what the border traces are going to seem like on the finish of this battle.

There needs to be discuss Ukraine's official want for safety in the long run, to verify they don't get invaded once more.

There needs to be discuss how Ukraine is rebuilt. And the way do you rebuild a rustic that's been attacked as usually because it has over the past three and a half years? These are key components of any settlement, we perceive that.

And either side – if there's going to be a deal, either side goes to have to surrender on one thing."

Background:

• Rubio additionally stated that the US won’t stress Ukraine to surrender its territories to Russia as a part of a peace settlement.
• As well as, the US secretary of state stated that in Alaska the Russians needed to pay in money to refuel their planes.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described as "very helpful" a gathering with the Coalition of the Keen on Sunday in Brussels at which Ukraine and European representatives coordinated their positions forward of Zelenskyy’s go to to Washington for a gathering with US President Donald Trump.

Supply: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "We proceed coordinating our joint positions. There may be clear assist for Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty. Everybody agrees that borders should not be modified by pressure. Everybody helps that key points have to be resolved with Ukraine’s participation in a trilateral format – Ukraine, the US and the Russian chief."

Particulars: Zelenskyy stated the US resolution to affix in offering safety ensures for Ukraine was "historic".

Quote: "Safety ensures, on account of our joint work, should actually be very sensible, delivering safety on land, within the air, and at sea, and have to be developed with Europe’s participation. After all, we additionally mentioned the right way to cease the killings as quickly as potential. We’re figuring out a standard imaginative and prescient of what a peace settlement needs to be – actually truthful, swift, and efficient."

Background:

• On 18 August, Zelenskyy will meet Trump in Washington. A number of European leaders will accompany the Ukrainian president to the US. Nonetheless, based on media stories, Zelenskyy will first maintain a bilateral assembly solely with Trump, adopted by a joint assembly with the European leaders.
• The US president’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, stated that on the Alaska summit, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin agreed to the availability of "sturdy safety ensures" for Ukraine by the US and European allies as a part of a possible peace deal.
• Zelenskyy stated on Sunday that he doesn’t have detailed info on the safety ensures for Ukraine that Trump and Putin mentioned in Alaska, however he famous that it was an "essential sign" from the US president.
• This challenge is predicted to be mentioned throughout Zelenskyy’s go to to the White Home on 18 August.

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The "peace" that Russia is providing Ukraine would imply capitulation, French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned following a Coalition of the Prepared assembly on Sunday.

Supply: Le Figaro citing Macron at a press convention, as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "We wish peace: a robust, lasting peace that’s preceded by the return of prisoners of struggle and harmless individuals, and that respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all international locations…

There is just one state providing a peace that might imply capitulation – Russia."

Particulars: Macron confused that if the allies present weak point in entrance of Russia, they are going to be setting the stage for future conflicts.

"I don’t suppose that President Putin desires peace. I feel he desires Ukraine’s capitulation," the French chief repeated. [N.B. Ukrainska Pravda does not recognise Putin as president – ed.]

Macron mentioned he’s assured that US President Donald Trump "desires peace" and known as on him to not uphold a "may makes proper" mentality, in order to not create a brand new worldwide order that may not be primarily based on legislation.

On this context, Macron mentioned, European leaders should be current at "subsequent summits on Ukraine".

Macron additionally confused that "no nation can comply with the lack of territories until it has safety ensures for the remainder of its territory".

He emphasised that the aim of the joint go to to Washington by European leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to current a united entrance on the a part of Ukraine and its European allies.

Background:

• Zelenskyy mentioned that at Sunday’s assembly, members of the Coalition of the Prepared had coordinated their positions forward of his go to to Washington for a gathering with Trump.
• Macron will likely be among the many European leaders accompanying Zelenskyy throughout his go to to the White Home on Monday.

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EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarína Mathernová has mentioned {that a} "peace" that calls for Ukraine hand over the non-occupied components of Donbas is unacceptable. She emphasised the EU won’t tolerate a peace that’s merely one other phrase for capitulation.

Supply: Mathernová on Fb

Quote: "In Anchorage, President Trump opted to not push for a ceasefire. As a substitute, Putin introduced a so-called 'peace proposal' that’s nothing however the aggressor’s dictate: Ukraine is, for instance, anticipated to give up the japanese a part of its territory, past what Putin achieved militarily. Such a 'peace' is unacceptable."

Particulars: Mathernová confused that the EU has been clear and agency in its place from the outset: peace have to be based mostly on the ideas of worldwide legislation – on full respect for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

"No illusions, no compromises with aggressors," Mathernová emphasised.

She added that the presence of European leaders in Washington along with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday will probably be a transparent sign that "Europe stands with Ukraine united and decided. It won’t tolerate a peace that’s merely one other phrase for capitulation".

"Along with the US, we should push Putin in the direction of an actual ceasefire after which actual peace – one thing that didn’t occur in Anchorage," the EU ambassador wrote.

Background:

• French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned following a Coalition of the Prepared assembly on Sunday that Russia is providing Ukraine a "peace" that may imply capitulation.
• On 18 August, Zelenskyy will meet Trump in Washington. A number of European leaders will accompany the Ukrainian president to the US. Nevertheless, in keeping with media experiences, Zelenskyy will first maintain a bilateral assembly solely with Trump, adopted by a joint assembly with the European leaders.

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US President Donald Trump has reposted a message from one other Fact Social person that claimed Ukraine should be ready to cede a part of its territory to Russia, in any other case it’ll lose much more later.

Supply: Trump on Fact Social

Particulars: Trump reposted the publish by one other person of the social community.

Quote from the publish: "Ukraine should be prepared to lose some territory to Russia in any other case the longer the conflict goes on they’ll maintain shedding much more land!"

Background:

• Earlier on Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted that the US is not going to stress Ukraine into making territorial concessions to Russia as a part of a possible peace settlement.
• On Sunday, Zelenskyy acknowledged that he’s solely prepared to debate territorial points with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin at a trilateral Ukraine-US-Russia assembly.
• Trump introduced after the Alaska summit that he had reached an settlement with Putin for a "land swap" between Ukraine and Russia and that "Zelenskyy has to agree".
• Based on Bloomberg, Trump knowledgeable European leaders and Zelenskyy that Putin continues to be demanding that Ukrainian troops withdraw from your entire territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, however is ready to freeze the entrance in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. Zelenskyy has rejected this demand.
• On Sunday, Reuters printed the calls for for ending the conflict that Putin put ahead throughout his assembly with Trump in Alaska.
• On 18 August, President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a number of other European leaders will meet on the White Home.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged that the post-war safety assure for Ukraine should work like NATO Article 5, which offers for collective safety and defence within the occasion of an assault on one of many member states.

Supply: Zelenskyy at a press convention with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen

Quote: "It can be crucial that America agrees to work with Europe to offer safety ensures, and we’re grateful to the US and the president for such a sign.

This can be a vital change, however there are not any particulars of the way it will work and what the function of America and Europe can be and what the EU can do. That is our foremost job – we want safety to work in follow like NATO Article 5.

And we take into account EU accession as a part of the safety ensures, and we’ve got heard that America and Putin see it the identical means."

Background:

• US President Donald Trump and European allies have mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine "within the type of Article 5" of the North Atlantic Treaty, however not inside NATO.
• A supply of Ukrainska Pravda confirmed that this was phrased as "non-NATO Article 5 safety ensures".

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Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin referred to as self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko on the morning of 17 August to transient him on the Alaska summit with US President Donald Trump.

Supply: Lukashenko’s press service on Telegram

Particulars: Putin and Lukashenko are reported to have mentioned the regional state of affairs in mild of the talks held in Alaska.

Different problems with "bilateral Belarusian-Russian relations" had been additionally raised.

Quote: "The Russian chief has given the Belarusian counterpart an in depth briefing on the outcomes of the current Russia-US summit."

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Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) carried out an operation in occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on 16 August, destroying an ammunition storage level and killing an unknown variety of Russian troops.

Supply: DIU

Particulars: An explosion occurred as a Russian truck carrying navy personnel entered a Russian base in an industrial zone close to the Korvatskyi passage in Melitopol.

DIU reported that not less than six Russian marines had been killed, together with the crew of a UAV unit from the Vostok-Akhmat battalion. The precise variety of casualties will not be but unknown.

The explosion additionally set hearth to an ammunition storage level, and sounds of secondary detonations have been heard.

The Russians despatched 4 ambulances to the scene.

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Reuters has launched a top level view of the calls for for ending the battle that Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin put ahead in Alaska throughout his assembly with US President Donald Trump.

Supply: Reuters, citing knowledgeable sources, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: In accordance with the sources, Russia would "relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine" whereas Kyiv would "cede swathes of its jap land which Moscow has been unable to seize", underneath the "peace proposals" mentioned by Putin and Trump on the summit in Alaska.

This info emerged the day after the Trump-Putin assembly at an air base in Alaska.

Two sources, who requested anonymity to debate delicate issues, mentioned their info on Putin’s proposals was based mostly primarily on discussions amongst leaders of Europe, the US and Ukraine, and famous that it was incomplete.

They mentioned Putin’s proposal excluded a ceasefire till a "complete deal" is reached.

Below the deal proposed by Russia, Kyiv would "totally withdraw from the jap Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts" in trade for "a Russian pledge to freeze the entrance strains within the southern oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia".

The sources additionally mentioned that Russia "can be ready to return comparatively small tracts of Ukrainian land it has occupied within the northern Sumy and northeastern Kharkiv oblasts".

They are saying they know that Putin can be in search of "on the very least – formal recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea", which Moscow occupied in 2014.

It’s not but identified whether or not this is able to imply recognition by the US authorities, or, for instance, by all Western states and Ukraine.

Putin additionally expects the lifting of at the least some sanctions in opposition to Russia. Nonetheless, the sources couldn’t make clear whether or not this is applicable to US sanctions, European sanctions, or each.

Ukraine would even be barred from becoming a member of the NATO navy alliance, though Putin "appeared to be open to Ukraine receiving some type of safety ensures", the sources famous. They added that it isn’t but clear what this is able to imply in follow.

Russia would additionally demand official standing for the Russian language in sure oblasts of Ukraine or all through your entire nation, in addition to the correct of the Russian Orthodox Church to function freely.

Background:

• After the assembly between the US and Russian leaders in Alaska, Trump mentioned he had reached an settlement with Putin on a territory trade and that "President Zelenskyy has to agree".
• He additionally introduced new talks with the Kremlin chief and mentioned he would take part in a gathering between Zelenskyy and Putin if it takes place.

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Rescue employees have retrieved the physique of a girl from below the rubble of a residential constructing within the Mezhova hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after she was killed in a Russian guided bomb assault on 14 August. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Supply: Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Army Administration

Particulars: Lysak reported that all through Saturday 16 August, Russian forces attacked the Nikopol district with first-person view drones and artillery, bombarding the Nikopol, Marhanets, Pokrovske, Chervonohryhorivka and Myrove hromadas. The strikes broken firm premises, infrastructure and autos and brought about 4 homes to burn down.

The Russians used guided aerial bombs and drones to strike the Mezhova and Novopavlivka hromadas within the Synelnykove district, damaging residential buildings, a gasoline pipeline and infrastructure services.

Background: On the morning of 15 August, two regulation enforcement officers have been killed in Sviatohirsk in Donetsk Oblast throughout a patrol when their automotive got here below hearth from Russian forces.

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