Europe. The video conference of the “volunteers' coalition” was concluded in which 33 countries participated. Conference participants agreed that they would proceed to support Ukraine with military support and financial support.
Europe. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that on 18 August she would go to Washington to meet US president Donald Trump, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski and European leaders. As she reported, she was personally asked by the Ukrainian leader. It is besides known that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloni, French president Emmanuel Macron, Finnish president Alexander Stubb, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will arrive at the meeting.
USA. US president Donald Trump supports the thought that the Russian Federation will take full control of Donbas and the front line in another areas will be frozen to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Fox News informed about this, citing an anonymous European diplomat.
According to the channel, the American leader abandoned the thought of a ceasefire and is now in favour of a peace agreement in which his position coincides with the imagination of Russian leadership.
"New York Times" had previously reported, citing sources that Trump, after gathering Putin in Alaska, offered a European peace plan to European leaders, which presupposes the Ukrainian's surrender of the full Donbas territory, including areas not yet liberated by Russian troops. According to paper sources, Trump believes that a peace agreement can be reached rapidly if Volodymyr Zelenski agrees to hand over Russia to the remainder of Donbas.
Poland. Historian prof. Jacek Bartyzel powerfully commented on the words of president Karol Nawrocki about the alleged joint triumph of Poles and Ukrainians over Bolsheviks in 1920. He accused him of “historical falsehood” and “political gift”. prof. Jacek Bartyzel referred to the words of president Karol Nawrocki, who stated on Friday that in the conflict of Warsaw the Bolsheviks defeated the Polish Army “together with Ukrainians”. The prof. included his opinion in the Facebook entry, quoted by the portal PCh24.pl. According to him, Nawrocki's message "is astonishing and, to put it mildly, is lacking in essential points with historical fact in the name of immediate political presentationism."
Russia. Russian president Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko. The subject of the conversation was to be the fresh Alaska summit during which Putin spoke to Donald Trump. “Russian leader informed his Belarusian colleague in item about the results of the Russia-US summit” – the conversation was reported by Telegrmu “Pul First” channel, which is connected to the administration of the president of Belarus.
Yemen. The Israeli Navy attacked the capital of Yemen, where detonation sounds spread on Sunday at dawn. They were followed by an Israeli Navy whose forces attacked Sana. Israeli missiles fell on the Hazi power station located on the confederate outskirts of the city. It is crucial for supplying Yemen's capital with electricity. The origin in Yemen's civilian defence organized by the unrecognized Ansarullah authorities confirmed that station generators were damaged as a consequence of the attack, resulting in their shutdown and major power outages.
Israel. Strike General Against Netanjah Politics. The protests were organised by the Host Families and Missing Families Forum. On Sunday, the general strike of the opponents of the Netanjahu's war policy began in Israel, reported “Times of Israel”. A direct reason for the reactivation of the protests was the announcement by the Israeli Prime Minister of the next land offensive in the Gaza Strip to lead to the business of the city of Gaza and the area of al-Mawasi.
On January 19, conflicted parties managed to agree a truce. The plan for the first phase of the truce was that it would take 42 days. Although Hamas fulfilled the terms of the truce on March 2, Israel stopped all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip. The Israelis then broke up the truce, starting on the night of the 17th and 18th of March again attacks on the Palestinian exclave. In the Palestinian exclave there are already cases of starvation, and Israeli soldiers regularly shoot Palestinians under humanitarian food distribution centers.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, over 61,000 Palestinians have already died. 154,000 wounded. 11,000 are considered missing.
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