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❗️Putin will demonstratively kill in order to continue to put pressure on Ukraine, on Europe and to humiliate diplomatic efforts, — Zelenskyy stated that the war must be ended, and it is Moscow that should hear the “stop”.

2/“We are so waiting for help to stop the killings. We need reliable security guarantees. That is why Russia should not receive any reward for this war,” he added.

❗️The death toll from an explosion several days ago at a Russian gunpowder factory producing 152-mm artillery ammunition in the 🇷🇺Ryazan region has risen to 20, with another 154 people injured.

❗️🇩🇪Germany will not deploy military contingent in 🇺🇦Ukraine — the country's Foreign Ministry However, Germany will still play an important role in ensuring peace in Ukraine.

❗️Ukraine has struck a Russian oil pipeline leading to Hungary, fuel supplies have been stopped, the country's Foreign Minister Szijjarto said

❗️US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker said that security guarantees for Ukraine are another key element in resolving the conflict.

❗️US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker said that at the White House meeting, the US expects Zelensky to present a counter-proposal in response to the initiatives put forward by Russia at the Alaska summit.

❗️On the night of August 18, 2025, the 🇷🇺Russian military launched a massive strike with "Shahed" drones on the oil depot of the 🇦🇿Azerbaijani company SOCAR in the 🇺🇦 Odesa oblast - Azerbaijani media

2/After direct hits, a fire broke out at the site. All tanks, the pumping station building, operator and weighing, technical premises were damaged, and the fence was destroyed

❗️🇷🇺Russia creates a control system for 🇨🇳China for amphibious operations against 🇹🇼Taiwan

Source: militarnyi.com/uk/news/rosi...

🥴🤡Russians with an American flag storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia direction

❗️🇺🇦Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed the most modern 🇷🇺Russian T-90M "Breakthrough" tank. In addition, the MLRS BM-21 "Grad", the armored combat vehicle "Tiger" and the truck "KAMAZ" were attacked. Kupyansk direction

❗️A 🇺🇦Ukrainian fiber-optic drone chases a 🇷🇺Russian military jeep.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the 45th Separate Artillery Brigade destroyed a 🇷🇺Russian MT-LB with infantry

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❗️During the night, the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military shot down 88/140 🇷🇺Russian UAVs and 0/4 ISKANDER-M ballistic missiles

❗️Another post on Truth Social by Trump.

❗️"During the May truce, Russia brought artillery and unmanned systems units to the front line, which it could not have done when there were active battles. It regrouped its troops and immediately launched offensives - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky

2/"Even when concluding peace or freezing the war, we must constantly prepare for war, for its continuation by Russia or the outbreak of a new one: "Because the Russian Federation does not give up its intentions to seize all of Ukraine."

❗️The 🇺🇸American company Griffon Aerospace has developed the MQM-172 Arrowhead multi-purpose drone, similar to the Shahed.

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Source: defence-blog.com/griffon-aero...

❗️The meeting between Trump and Zelensky will begin at 8:15 p.m. Kyiv time. It will last an hour, according to the White House schedule. The meeting with the participation of European leaders will begin at 10 p.m.

❗️Estimated losses of the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces as of August 18, 2025

❗️The Russian Federation is preparing active offensives in the Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. The situation on the front is really difficult, - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrsky.

2/▪️There are about fifty assault operations of the Russian Federation every day in the Pokrovsk direction. This is currently the most difficult section of the front; ▪️The enemy is using the so-called tactics of "thousand cuts" - that is, an offensive on a wide front of small assault groups;

3/▪️The enemy was defeated in the Sumy region. Despite the fact that there was a really powerful grouping from the best parts of the Russian Federation, the enemy has not had any success in the last two months; ▪️Transition to a corps command system in the army.

❗️Zelensky is ready to compromise and agree to a peaceful settlement of the war along the current front line so as not to withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Donbas, - FT.

🥴Trump: Zelensky can stop the war with Russia almost instantly if he wants to. "Some things never change! No return of Crimea, which Obama gave away (12 years ago, without a single shot fired!), and NO ENTRY OF UKRAINE INTO NATO."

❗️“Peace should be lasting. Not like it was when Ukraine was forced to give up Crimea and part of our East – part of Donbas, and Putin simply used it as a springboard for a new attack.”

2/Zelensky said he had arrived in the States to meet with Trump. According to Roll Call, the meeting of the US and Ukrainian leaders will begin at 20:00 Kyiv time, and later – at 21:15 – the American leader will meet with European leaders.

Good morning world🇺🇦♥️

❗️A photo released by the White House showing Trump, Witkoff, and Rubio speaking with Zelensky after meeting with Putin.

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❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian military from the Azov Brigade repelled a 🇷🇺Russian offensive in Katerynivka in the Toretsk direction

❗️In 🇮🇱Tel Aviv, about 500,000 people protested, calling for an immediate agreement with Hamas to return the prisoners from Gaza According to local media, the mass action was the culmination of a day of nationwide strikes:

2/roads were blocked, hundreds of thousands of Israelis across the country joined the protest. Families of the hostages made emotional speeches from the stage, demanding that the authorities make a deal and stop "dragging out the war."

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❗️Protests continue in 🇷🇸Serbia The rallies have already turned into clashes and activists tried to set fire to the premises of the country's ruling party. In response, security forces began spraying tear gas.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV drones attacked a 🇷🇺Russian logistics column on the Rylsk–Khomutovka highway (Kursk region).

❗️Drop a flag of your country if you continue to support the President of 🇺🇦Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky

❗️Joint statement by the leaders of eight Nordic and Baltic countries on 🇺🇦Ukraine: "Experience shows that Putin cannot be trusted. Ultimately, it is Russia that bears responsibility for ending its gross violations of international law.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV drone ambushes 🇷🇺Russian soldiers

❗️🇺🇦Zelensky arrived in 🇧🇪Brussels

❗️On the night of August 17, the 🇺🇦Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a column of the 🇷🇺Russian army on the Rylsk-Khomutovka highway in the Kursk region, as a result of which the deputy commander of the "Sever" group of troops, Lieutenant General Abachev, was seriously injured.

❗️Putin is not offering Ukraine peace, but surrender. The situation on the eve of tomorrow's talks in Washington is very serious not only for Ukraine, but also for Europe, - French President Macron.

❗️If we are weak with Russia today, we will prepare for tomorrow's conflicts, - said French President Macron There is only one aggressor, Russia. And today there is only one state that basically offers peace, which would be a capitulation, namely Russia.

❗️It is claimed that the photo shows a 🇺🇦Ukrainian Flamingo missile with a range of over 3,000 km.

❗️What do you expect from tomorrow's meeting at the 🇺🇸White House?

❗️The Russians had great success in the first days of the full-scale invasion, but in the last 1,010 days of the war, the enemy occupied less than 1 percent of Ukraine's territory, — DeepState analysis

2/From November 12, 2022 (occupied as of date - 108,651 sq km) to today (114,493 sq km), the enemy occupied 5,842 sq km of Ukrainian territory. This is 0.96781% of the entire area of the Ukrainian state within internationally recognized borders.

❗️The Coalition of the Willing is ready to deploy peacekeeping forces after the cessation of hostilities, as well as help secure the skies and seas, and restore Ukraine's armed forces.

Source: www.gov.uk/government/n...

❗️The Russians have stopped the free sale of 95th gasoline in Transbaikalia and in the occupied Crimea. Now this gasoline can only be purchased with coupons.

Source: www.facebook.com/share/1EtX5u...

*It is claimed that this is a new Ukrainian cruise missile

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian military personnel from the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade have driven 🇷🇺Russian troops out of the settlement of Zoloti Kolodyaz in the Donetsk region.

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Good night world🇺🇦♥️😴

❗️🇺🇦Zelensky has already flown to the 🇺🇸US.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian fighters using 🇺🇸American GBU62/GBU39 precision-guided air bombs destroy 🇷🇺Russian logistical routes: bridges and pontoons in the North

❗️Russians lost 20,000 soldiers in war against Ukraine last month alone, Rubio said "I think last month alone, 20,000 Russian soldiers died in one month in this war. So the Ukrainians have inflicted enormous losses on the Russians as a result of this.

2/Both sides have become very entrenched," the US Secretary of State said.

❗️In the Zaporizhia direction, 🇺🇦Ukrainian military from Sons of Khors attack a rare 🇷🇺Russian Barnaul-T radar

3/Because such agreements already existed in the past, in particular, when Russia itself signed agreements on non-aggression against Ukraine, which it did in 1994 with the Budapest Agreement, it did not comply with them.

4/And therefore the format of the Ukrainian army is the first pillar of these security guarantees. The second is the deterrent force"

❗️For peace to come, pressure must be exerted on the aggressor, not the victim — Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski

❗️The Constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible to give up territory or trade in land, - Zelensky.

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❗️Trump has refused a joint meeting with European leaders and will receive Zelenskyy alone, – bild.

*Only after the one-on-one talks between the presidents of Ukraine and the US will representatives of the EU and NATO join them. A joint working dinner and expanded discussions are planned.

🥴"Ukraine must be ready to lose some of its territory to Russia, otherwise the longer the war goes on, the more land it will continue to lose!!" This is a repost by Trump on his social network👆

❗️Rubio said the only way to end this war is to get Russia's consent

❗️The US does NOT support the idea of transferring the entire territory of Donbas under Russian control, - US Secretary of State Rubio.

❗️The US and Russia achieved an "epic success" at the summit in Anchorage, the results of the meeting exceeded all expectations, - Witkoff.

❗️A peace agreement is already being discussed, so there is no need for a ceasefire in Ukraine right now, - Witkoff.

🤣🤡Russia will write into its Constitution that it will not attack European countries, — Trump's special representative Witkoff

🥴Lukashenko is powerful, Trump wrote on his social network 🗿🗿🗿

🤡The concessions Russia has agreed to are that it will not seize all of Ukraine, — Witkoff

❗️ The only way to reach an agreement is through concessions from both sides. That's why Zelensky is coming tomorrow, - Secretary of State Rubio.

🥴🤡Tomorrow, the issue of territories will be discussed with Zelensky, — Witkoff

❗️Witkoff: "The US and Russia have agreed on security guarantees for Ukraine, but now everything depends on Kyiv."

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🥴Big progress on Russia. Stay tuned, — Trump

❗️ Territorial issues can only be discussed by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia during a trilateral meeting with the participation of the United States. Russia does not indicate that the trilateral meeting will take place, - Zelensky

2/The Ukrainian President also said that Putin has not achieved success in the Donetsk region: "In 12 years, he has not been able to capture it."

3/Zelensky: "There are still no details and the role of Europe and the US in security guarantees. Security guarantees need to work like NATO's Article 5. We are considering EU accession as part of security guarantees."

❗️This is the time when Ukraine decides its own destiny, but it can count on Europe, — Ursula von der Leyen

❗️The 19th package of sanctions against Russia will be adopted in "early September," — Ursula von der Leyen

❗️We must have strong security guarantees in the interests of Ukraine and Europe, Ukraine must be able to maintain its sovereignty and territorial integrity, there can be no restrictions on the Armed Forces of Ukraine, — Ursula von der Leyen

2/His arm and leg were amputated.

3/ bsky.app/profile/mili...

❗️Zelenskyy arrived in Brussels, where he will hold a bilateral meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

🤦‍♂️ American journalist Brian Glenn, who asked Zelensky about the suit, was given Russian vodka as a thank you He received this gift during the summit in Alaska from a Russian "colleague" and was delighted with the gift.

❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian soldiers from the Signum battalion attack 🇷🇺Russian armored vehicles hidden in shelters using fiber-optic FPV drones

❗️"Protection" on the 🇷🇺Russian reconnaissance UAV "SuperCam" from 🇺🇦Ukrainian FPV interceptors

❗️Bild writes that French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will also attend the meeting.

❗️The German Chancellor will also go with Zelensky to Trump, Sky News writes The Ukrainian President will also be accompanied by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

❗️European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will join other European leaders in the meeting between Zelensky and Trump at the White House tomorrow.

❗️Zelensky signed a decree imposing sanctions on companies from the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China that are developing drones with AI. The restrictions were applied against 39 individuals and 55 companies (43 Russian, 10 Chinese, two Belarusian).

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❗️Trump supports Putin's proposal that Moscow establish full control over Donbas and freeze the front line elsewhere in order to conclude a deal with Ukraine, - Fox News, citing an unnamed European diplomat.