Overview

• Zelenskiy declared in a video address that Ukraine’s borders are enshrined in its constitution and cannot be altered through land swaps with Russia.
• President Trump announced he will meet President Putin in Alaska on August 15 to discuss a ceasefire and potential peace framework.
• Vice President Vance is leading consultations in London with British and European officials to align on responses to proposed territorial concessions.
• Heavy fighting persists along a more than 1,000-kilometer eastern front where Russian forces control about 20 percent of Ukrainian land.
• Russia insists Ukraine withdraw troops from parts of four occupied regions it does not fully hold, a demand Kyiv has firmly rejected.