🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "The conversation with Trump was frank and substantive, it brings us closer to the right decisions," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Russia respects the Trump administration's position on the need to quickly end hostilities in Ukraine," - Russia's President Putin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukrainian President Zelensky has refused to withdraw from the Donbass [Donetsk and Lugansk] in talks with Trump and European leaders," - Reuters.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "The United Kingdom is ready to deploy troops to Ukraine a week after a ceasefire.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has approved the use of Royal Air Force fighters to assist allies in patrolling the skies over Ukraine to ensure compliance with the ceasefire by Russia," - The Daily Telegraph.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Foreign troop deployment to Ukraine after a ceasefire / an agreement is a red-line for the Kremlin.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Druze separatists from the SMC involved in the so-called Druze 'self determination' protests in As Suwaida city, southern Syria.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- One European leader will attend the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting on Monday, August 18. No confirmation on who yet.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte may also attend the Trump-Zelensky White House meeting on Monday, August 18.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇫🇮⚡- Politico believes the European leader to accompany Ukrainian President Zelensky to the White House is Finland's President Alexander Stubb. Stubb has a personal close relationship with President Trump.

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🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪⚡- During the Starmer-Macron-Merz virtual call tomorrow, the three will decide on whether to go to the White House on Monday with Zelensky, and possibly with Stubb and Rutte.

🇨🇳⚡- Chinese military rehearsals on the streets of Beijing, China, tonight.

The parade is scheduled for September 3rd, marking China's victory over Japan, a war that was ironically mostly won by the Kuomintang - the current largest party in the Yuan, Taiwan.

🇨🇭⚡- CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink appointed as the World Economic Forum's interim co-chairman.

🇮🇱⚡- Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has blasted Israeli Prime Minister in a rant:

"Bibi [Netanyahu] is an atheist. Why do you believe anything he says? He abandoned the religious community a few years ago and formed a government with the left. We must not forget that. He cannot be trusted. He's an atheist, he believes in nothing," - Yosef.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A major Israeli incursion in multiple directions in the al-Qunaitra countryside, southern Syria. Israeli tanks have approached the Daraa regional border.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Ansarullah have confirmed the Israeli Navy bombed a power plant in Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: Shooting on Franklin Ave, in the Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.

🇺🇸⚡- Seven people have reportedly been shot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

🇺🇸⚡- NYPD have closed down Franklin Avenue, Crown Heights.

🇺🇸⚡- The Crown Heights shooter remains unidentified, and no arrests have been made.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky to travel to Brussels today, to the headquarters of the European Union to participate in the 'Coalition of Willing' meeting.