🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia cannot oppose Ukraine's efforts to join the European Union and NATO," - Joint UK-EU Statement.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We stress the need to provide strong security guarantees to Ukraine to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," - Joint UK-EU Statement.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We will continue to tighten sanctions and economic measures to pressure Russia until peace is achieved," - Joint UK-EU Statement.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The next step is to hold further talks with the participation of Zelensky according to Trump's vision," - Joint UK-EU Statement.

End of statement.

🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Strong security guarantees that protect the interests of Ukraine and Europe are essential," - Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

🇬🇧⚡️- New Aug 13-14 poll suggests Reform UK would win a general election outright.

🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡- "The game for Ukraine's future and the national security of Poland and Europe has entered a decisive stage," - Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- The UK has announced a virtual meeting of the 'Coalition of Willing' to take place tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "European officials and Trump discussed possible 'Article 5 style' security guarantees for Ukraine outside NATO as part of a potential peace deal," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇳⚡- "New Delhi hopes for the lifting of US secondary sanctions on India after the Putin-Trump meeting,"- TASS, Russian outlet.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪⚡- British Prime Minister Starmer, French President Macron and German Chancellor Merz to hold a virtual meeting tomorrow on the Trump-Putin Summit.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Putin proposed to freeze the front in the Zaporozhye and Kherson in exchange for a Ukrainian withdrawal from Donetsk and Lugansk," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump told European leaders peace could come quickly if Zelensky ceded all of the Donbass region [Donetsk + Lugansk] to Russia, including areas not under Russian control

In return, Putin offered a cease-fire along current lines, including Zaporozhye and Kherson, and a written pledge not to attack Ukraine or Europe again, a promise he has broken before," - The New York Times.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Trump informed Zelensky that Putin offered to freeze front lines in other areas, including Zaporozhye and Kherson, if Ukraine withdrew from the Donetsk and Lugansk [the Donbass] regions," - Reuters.

🇲🇱🇫🇷⚡- The Malian government announced it had foiled a coup d’etat attempt involving two generals from the Malian Armed Forces and a French national accused of working for French intelligence.