US President Donald Trump, following negotiations with the leaders of Ukraine and the European Union, announced the preparation of a personal meeting of Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. “We discussed security guarantees for Ukraine that will provide European countries in coordination with the United States. [Then] I called President Putin and began preparing a meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky.

The main thing about the negotiations on which Trump promised to "come to an agreement on all points" Anna MoneyMaker / Getty images Vladimir Zelensky, Donald Trump and members of their team in negotiations in Oval office, August 18, 2025 Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump held negotiations in the White House . This was the second visit of Zelensky to Washington after the re -election of Trump. The first, in February 2025, ended in failure.

US President Donald Trump interrupted his meeting in the White House with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and European allies to call Vladimir Putin. This was the first to report the German Bild tabloid, later information with reference to sources confirmed Reuters, Fox News and Sky News. According to Sky News, Trump talked with the President of Russia in another part of the White House, and not in the one where the President of Ukraine and European leaders were.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Donald Trump many times for their help during the public part of their meeting in the White House, the American media drew attention. Reuters reported that Zelensky said “thank you” at least eight times, The Wall Street Journal writes that the words of gratitude were “about ten times”.

US President Donald Trump, after a bilateral meeting with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, expressed confidence that Washington, Kyiv and their European allies will be able to agree on the main parameters of a peace agreement. “Today we will come to an agreement on almost all points, including security issues. I think that a peace agreement can be concluded after our negotiations, ”Trump said at the beginning of a meeting with European leaders.

US President Donald Trump will call Vladimir Putin until the end of the day. He himself stated during communication with reporters at the beginning of a meeting with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. According to Trump, he will call Putin “immediately” after the completion of negotiations with Zelensky and European leaders. The US President noted that shortly before a meeting with Zelensky, he had a “indirect” conversation with Putin. He did not specify what they were talking about.

Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty images Presidents of the United States and Ukraine Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky on August 18 are meeting in the White House. Trump personally met Zelensky on the porch of his residence. The President of Ukraine came to a meeting in a black suit - during the last visit to the White House in February, which ended in a scandal, he was without a suit, which caused criticism from the American conservatives.

Updated . The negotiations of Trump, Zelensky and European leaders ended, the White House press gun said. In Washington, negotiations of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky began in the White House. Trump personally went out to meet Zelensky on the porch of the White House.

The Rodnikovsky District Court of the Ivanovo Region confiscated in favor of the state 50% of the company Riga Bread LLC, belonging to the citizen of Latvia Normud Bomis. The decision was made at the suit of the Prosecutor General. According to the supervisory authority, Bomis used his share in “Riga bread” to sponsor the Ukrainian battalions “Azov” and “Aidar”.

The prosecutor’s office charged 28-year-old Marius Borghu Hyobi, the son of the Kronprintss of Norway Mette-Marit and the stepson of the Kronprint hocon, reports Reuters. Among other things, Huybi was accused of domestic violence, as well as four rape, some of which he shot on the video. Huyby’s lawyer said that the son of the Kronprintses denies the most serious accusations, but is going to plead guilty to some less grave points. Hoibi, as expected , will appear before court in January 2026.

Since 2012, 97 rectors of Russian universities have become defendants in criminal cases, calculated the publication T-Invariant. Why the researchers decided to study the cases for the period from 2012 to 2025, is not specified. Most often, the heads of higher educational institutions started cases in 2021. The authors of the study counted in that year 17 criminal cases, the defendants of which rector became.

Kit newsletter explains why this is important and is it possible (at least theoretically) a world without plastic Timur Matahari / AFP / Scanpix / Leta people collect plastic from the river. Indonesia, June 2024. On August 15, international negotiations in the fight against pollution of plastic ended . They ended a day later than the planned and turned into a complete failure.

In the second quarter of 2025, one -time payments for the conclusion of a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received 37.9 thousand people, “important stories” reported on August 18, referring to data on the expenses of the federal budget. Compared to the same period of 2024, the number of Russians who received payments for the army contract fell two and a half times - then 92.8 thousand people received the money.

The Ukrainian president must choose between painful concessions and a new quarrel with the United States, writes Bloomberg Anna MoneyMaker / Getty Images; Ihor kuznietsov / novyny live / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images Today, August 18, US President Donald Trump will accept the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in the White House. On August 15, Trump met in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and by the end of the week he hopes to organize a meeting of Zelensky and Putin.

The Russian state television channel RT published a video, which states the American M113 armored personnel carrier with the flags of Russia and the USA. The television channel report that the “military unit” RT Vlad Anrika received a video from Russian tankers from the 70th motorized rifle regiment. The record, claimed, was removed near the village of Malaya Tokmachka in the Orekhovsky district of the Zaporizhzhya region. The authenticity of the video is not confirmed.