🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump informed Zelensky that Putin offered to freeze front lines in other areas, including Zaporozhye and Kherson, if Ukraine withdrew from the Donetsk and Lugansk [the Donbass] regions," - Reuters.

🇲🇱🇫🇷⚡- The Malian government announced it had foiled a coup d’etat attempt involving two generals from the Malian Armed Forces and a French national accused of working for French intelligence.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump has told his European counterparts that he is 'more willing than ever before' for the US to provide 'direct' security guarantees to Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Russian President Putin is holding a cabinet meeting at the Kremlin to discuss the Trump-Putin Summit results.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- European leaders have been invited to attend the Trump-Zelensky meeting at the White House on Monday, August 18.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Russian President Putin has begun addressing the nation following his cabinet meeting at the Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Russian President Putin's arrival at the conference hall in the Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The visit to Alaska was timely and very useful," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Resolving the Ukrainian crisis on a fair basis was discussed," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Russia would rather see a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, the elimination of the root causes of the crisis should be the basis for resolution," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "During the negotiations with Trump, there was an opportunity to calmly and in detail present Russia's position on the situation in Ukraine," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "During the talks, the parties discussed almost all areas of cooperation," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The conversation with Trump was frank and substantive, it brings us closer to the right decisions," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Russia respects the Trump administration's position on the need to quickly end hostilities in Ukraine," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukrainian President Zelensky has refused to withdraw from the Donbass [Donetsk and Lugansk] in talks with Trump and European leaders," - Reuters.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "The United Kingdom is ready to deploy troops to Ukraine a week after a ceasefire.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has approved the use of Royal Air Force fighters to assist allies in patrolling the skies over Ukraine to ensure compliance with the ceasefire by Russia," - The Daily Telegraph.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Foreign troop deployment to Ukraine after a ceasefire / an agreement is a red-line for the Kremlin.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Druze separatists from the SMC involved in the so-called Druze 'self determination' protests in As Suwaida city, southern Syria.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- One European leader will attend the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting on Monday, August 18. No confirmation on who yet.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte may also attend the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting on Monday, August 18.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇫🇮⚡- Politico believes the European leader to accompany Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White House is Finland's President Alexander Stubb. Stubb has a personal close relationship with President Trump.