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Russia launched 270 drones and 10 missiles against Ukraine on August 19, just hours after President Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Trump and European leaders in Washington to discuss security guarantees. The strikes killed 15 people and wounded at least 76.

Trump is staying in touch with Putin to keep him updated on crunch meetings with European leaders.

Ukraine’s president received a warmer Oval Office welcome than last time but Trump rules out need for ceasefire

An EU source told the Kyiv Independent that several EU leaders had expressed interest in such a debrief, particularly those not present in Washington.

“This time the President [Zelenskyy] will be in a suit, but the style still remains in a military key,” one of the Ukrainian president’s designers told POLITICO.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid out a number of demands that he would require to stop his country's war against Ukraine.

Most of these demands are non-starters for Ukraine, analysts say.

Russia has demanded a full Ukrainian withdrawal from Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, de jure recognition of the occupied territories as Russian, a special status for the Russian-backed church and the Russian language in Ukraine, Kyiv's demilitarization, and a ban on Kyiv's NATO membership.

In exchange,

Zelensky warns against “rewarding” Russia as he heads into high-stakes talks with Trump, European leaders, and NATO after Putin summit fails to deliver ceasefire.

Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’

In an Aug. 16 video, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico praised the recent Putin-Trump summit in Alaska and repeated Kremlin propaganda about the "root causes" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"If they do not have the will to implement a simple order to stop the attacks, it may take a great deal of effort to get Russia to implement something much more significant, namely peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades to come."

Details of post-summit call were leaked in which US president supports plan for Kyiv to give up Donbas region

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.