Overview

• President Trump and President Putin will meet on August 15 in Alaska to discuss ending the three-year conflict in Ukraine
• Zelenskiy has conditioned his participation on Ukraine retaining veto power over any concessions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson
• The summit will be the first face-to-face talks on the war since Russia’s 2014 annexations and aims to secure a lasting ceasefire
• Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has traveled to Washington twice in the past two months seeking advanced U.S. Patriot or THAAD air defense systems
• Munir’s request comes after India’s Operation Sindoor struck deep into Pakistan and exposed failures in Chinese-supplied HQ-9 batteries and fighter jets