Key developments on Aug. 15: Trump, Putin fail to reach deal to end war in Ukraine Ukraine strikes Russian port used for Iranian arms shipments, military saysUkrainian unit claims Pokrovsk cleared of... Read more »

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a joint press conference after participating in a US-Russia summit on Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. (Drew Angerer /... Read more »

Protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy, holding signs against land swaps and calling for an all-for-all prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 15, 2025, ahead of Trump-Putin... Read more »

A PayPal sign at the company’s headquarters in San Jose, California, U.S., on Jan. 30, 2024. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) It’s a fact little known around the world: Some of the biggest names... Read more »

US President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin during a 2019 meeting. Stock photo: Getty Images Bloomberg has stated that preparations by the US Secret Service for the meeting between US... Read more »

For the Kremlin, the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska is a convenient opportunity to pull off another information-psychological operation against Ukrainians. Military theorist Clausewitz said that war is the continuation of politics by... Read more »

The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has collected a large-scale evidence base on the “information saboteurs” of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB), who, under the leadership of former Member of... Read more »

Editor’s note: This is issue 35 of Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak’s weekly “Ukraine Reforms Tracker” covering events from July 30–Aug. 12, 2025. The digest highlights steps taken in the Ukrainian parliament related... Read more »

Editor’s note: The story is being updated. President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the latter’s residence in Downing Street on Aug. 14, Sky News reported, citing Starmer’s... Read more »