\u201cWhen it comes to security, (Europeans) are willing to put people on the ground. We\u2019re willing to help them with things, especially, probably \u2026 by air,\u201d Trump said in an interview with the Fox News \u201cFox & Friends\u201d program.<\/p>\n
Nato military leaders were expected to meet on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine, with US Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expected to attend virtually, officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n
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Putin has said Russia will not tolerate troops from the Nato alliance in Ukraine. He has also shown no sign of backing down from demands for territory, including land not under Russia\u2019s military control, after his summit with Trump on Friday in Alaska.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Later, in an interview with radio host Mark Levin, Trump characterised his negotiating style in trying to end the war as \u201cprobably instinct more than process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Following Monday\u2019s meeting, Russia launched its biggest air assault in more than a month on Ukraine, with 270 drones and 10 missiles launched, the Ukrainian air force said. The energy ministry said the strikes caused big fires at energy facilities in the central Poltava region, home to Ukraine\u2019s only oil refinery.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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Oil is flowing to Slovakia again via the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak economy ministry said late on Tuesday, after a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil pumping station in Russia\u2019s Tambov region cut off supplies. Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russia\u2019s energy infrastructure, a key conduit for generating money for Kremlin\u2019s war efforts, with oil and gas sales accounting for a quarter of Russia\u2019s total state budget proceeds.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Zelenskyy says Russia struck gas distribution station in Odesa region<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s president said on Wednesday that Russia had struck a gas distribution station in the southern region of Odesa.<\/p>\n
Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X: \u201cLast night, a drone strike on Okhtyrka in the Sumy region injured 14 people. A family with wounded children \u2013 5 months, 4 years, and 6 years old \u2013 sought assistance after the attack. In Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, a glide bomb strike damaged five apartment buildings, and at least three people still remain under the rubble. The rescue operation continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was also a treacherous strike on a gas distribution station in the Odesa region. Shelling also targeted the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions. In total, more than 60 drones and a ballistic missile were used.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of these are demonstrative strikes that only confirm the need to put pressure on Moscow, the need to impose new sanctions and tariffs until diplomacy is fully effective,\u201d Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n
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Last night, a drone strike on Okhtyrka in the Sumy region injured 14 people. A family with wounded children \u2013 5 months, 4 years, and 6 years old \u2013 sought assistance after the attack. In Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, a glide bomb strike damaged five apartment buildings, and at\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/TWRPo4Po6F<\/a><\/p>\n
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An object which fell and exploded in a cornfield in eastern Poland may have been a component of an old propeller engine, the Polish army said on Wednesday, adding that there had been no violation of Poland\u2019s airspace from Ukraine<\/a> or Belarus. Police had earlier announced that an unidentified object had fallen in a field in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland\u2019s Lublin province, which borders Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201c…after conducting preliminary analyses of radar system records, no violation of Polish airspace was recorded last night from either Ukraine or Belarus,\u201d the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe information about the discovery of an object, which, according to preliminary assessments, may be a component of an old propeller engine, has been forwarded to the Air Operations Center Air Component Command.\u201d<\/p>\n
The blast shattered windows in several homes, but nobody was injured, PAP news agency reported. Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris at the site, it added. Air raid sirens rang out for about an hour over the border in Ukraine\u2019s Volyn and Lviv regions from around 0900 GMT, according to messages from its military posted on Telegram. There were no reports of air attacks in those regions, their governors said.<\/p>\n
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Shares of defence-linked companies dropped 1.5% in early trade. In the previous session, these stocks suffered their worst day in more than a month, pressured by news of a potential Ukraine-Russia summit, as hopes for de-escalation reduced demand for military-related assets.<\/p>\n
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Russia launched 15 drones in an assault on the Okhtyrka area in the early hours of Wednesday, local prosecutors said on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n
The children injured in the attack on Odesa, which struck a residential neighbourhood in the town, were aged 5 months, 4 years and 6 years, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Overall, Russia launched a total of 93 drones and two missiles to attack the country overnight, the Ukrainian air force said, adding it downed 62 drones and one missile, and recorded hits at 20 locations.<\/p>\n
Firefighters work at the site of a fuel storage facility hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa region, Ukraine August 20, 2025. Photograph: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine\/Reuters<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Services reported a \u201cmassive drone strike\u201d on the southern region of Odesa, saying one person was wounded and a large fire erupted at a fuel and energy facility.<\/p>\n
Officials of the Izmail district in the Odesa region said port infrastructure in the city was damaged.<\/p>\n
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Fabrizio Tassinari<\/p>\nSeven is a biblical number, a number dear to ancient Rome, and the number of Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s lucky jersey. Perhaps it is also now going to be the answer to Henry Kissinger\u2019s (probably apocryphal) question: what number do I call when I want to talk to Europe? Maybe the answer is seven, like the number of leaders sitting at the table<\/a> in Washington on Monday alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to say at this stage whether anything good will come from the impromptu White House summit, but European leaders showing up as a group in support of Ukraine was a first. This seven-member format \u2013 Nato, the European Commission, France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Finland \u2013 truly spoke with one voice. They did so on a crisis, Ukraine, over which they have sometimes been bitterly divided throughout the past three and a half years (remember Emmanuel Macron\u2019s early concern not to \u201chumiliate<\/a>\u201d Vladimir Putin?). Yet Ukraine is also the dossier over which European leaders have converged and yielded the greatest impact during the same timeframe: from the 18 sanctions packages<\/a> the EU has imposed on Russia and the opening of EU accession negotiations for Ukraine, to the supply of weapons<\/a> to Kyiv.<\/p>\n
The US president may be helping Putin to destroy the west, but his vanity is causing Europeans to speak with one voice on Ukraine<\/a>, Fabrizio Tassinari writes.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Dan Sabbagh<\/p>\nOver dinner on Monday, a simple barbecue of meat and roasted vegetables, the soldiers of Ukraine\u2019s 150th reconnaissance and strike battalion have other things on their mind. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in the White House and Donald Trump has just promised to give Ukraine<\/a> \u201cvery good protection\u201d.<\/p>\n
When this development is passed on to the group around, one of the soldiers pipes up \u201cFrom who?\u201d and laughs, such is the uncertainty about who the US really supports. But in reality the troops are not following the news closely. After three and half years, the war has its own momentum, technology and schedule.<\/p>\n
Near Dobropillia new trenches are visible, drone attacks continue and there is no sign of the fighting easing.<\/strong> Ukrainian frontline troops are sceptical of ceding land, writes Dan Sabbagh near Dobropillia. Read the full report here:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Patrick Wintour<\/p>\nAfter a week of historic summits on the future of Ukraine<\/a>, will the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, have to trade land for peace? Diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour reports.<\/p>\n
Anton Levsiushkin<\/strong> grew up in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine<\/a>. It is a seaside city. \u201cSwimming, windsurfing, kitsesurfing\u201d, he tells Helen Pidd<\/strong>, \u201canything a human being can do in water, we did it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sofiia Rozhdestvina <\/strong>is from a little farther north, in Donetsk. It\u2019s a place, she explains, famed for its roses and its football club, Shakhtar Donetsk. Her family had their surname inscribed on a few of the stadium seats.<\/p>\n
So is the three-year war in Ukraine close to an end? And what will it mean to Ukrainians like Anton and Sofiia if it is?<\/p>\n
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At least 14 people, including a family with three children, were wounded in an overnight Russian attack on Ukraine\u2019s northern region of Sumy, Ukraine\u2019s prime minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia continues to manifest its fears through acts of pure terrorism across Ukraine, once again targeting the homes of families and their sleeping children,\u201d Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X.<\/p>\n
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Russia continues to manifest its fears through acts of pure terrorism across Ukraine, once again targeting the homes of families and their sleeping children.<\/p>\n
Among the regions targeted overnight was Okhtyrka in Sumy region, where a residential neighborhood was hit. Thirteen\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/QkbZjK3evL<\/a><\/p>\n
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Russia launched a \u201cmassive drone strike\u201d on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, injuring one person and causing a large fire at a fuel and energy facility, Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Service said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Administration of the Izmail district in the Odesa region said on social media that port infrastructure in the city was damaged.<\/p>\n
A firefighter works at the site of a fuel storage facility hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa region, Ukraine August 20, 2025. Photograph: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s air defence units destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia\u2019s RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing data from the Russian defence ministry.<\/p>\n
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