Overview
- Leaders described the three-hour Anchorage meeting as constructive but failed to secure a Ukraine ceasefire and agreed to continue high-level dialogue after Putin proposed a follow-up in Moscow.
- Trump phoned President Zelensky after the summit, and Zelensky backed a U.S.-Russia-Ukraine trilateral session and will visit Washington on Monday for further talks.
- Security for the Alaska summit followed strict reciprocity rules, with matching U.S. and Russian protection details, Russian delegates housed in University of Alaska dormitories and FAA flight restrictions over Anchorage.
- In Jammu & Kashmir’s Kishtwar/Chushoti area and Mumbai’s Vikhroli, Army, NDRF and local responders continue rescue operations after monsoon-triggered cloudbursts and landslides, with communities sheltering pilgrims and canceling Janmashtami in Doda.
- The Supreme Court of India dismissed the IMA’s challenge to Rule 170 on AYUSH advertising, lifting pre-approval requirements and drawing praise from yoga advocate Baba Ramdev.