Russian forces shot down 95 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, Russia\u2019s state TASS news agency reported on Sunday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPolitics and diplomacy<\/p>\n
\n- Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of war<\/a> from each side on Sunday after mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Defence Ministry and the Ukrainian president said.<\/li>\n
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed support<\/a> for Ukraine\u2019s calls for security guarantees as part of a potential peace deal with Russia, during a visit to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday.<\/li>\n
- Speaking at a news conference, Carney said the guarantees could include international participation: \u201cIn Canada\u2019s judgement, it is not realistic that the only security guarantee could be the strength of the Ukrainian Armed Forces\u2026 that needs to be buttressed and reinforced.\u201d<\/li>\n
- Carney joined Zelenskyy for a ceremony in central Kyiv to mark Ukrainian Independence Day, which was also attended by the US special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Kellogg met Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who said they discussed the Ukraine-US minerals agreement as well as security guarantees.<\/li>\n
- United States Vice President JD Vance told the broadcaster NBC that Russia has made \u201csignificant concessions\u201d towards a negotiated settlement in its war on Ukraine.<\/li>\n
- \u201cThey\u2019ve recognised that they\u2019re not going to be able to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. That was, of course, a major demand at the beginning. And importantly, they\u2019ve acknowledged that there is going to be some security guarantee to the territorial integrity of Ukraine,\u201d Vance said.<\/li>\n
- Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that a group of nations, including UN Security Council members, should be the guarantors of Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is how things stand on Monday, August 25: Fighting Russian forces shelled Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region 23 times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[299,12,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-371118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115086805326113598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}