White House officials won’t yet share publicly what they learned during Friday’s private summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. That information is likely to trickle out this week after an urgent and highly unusual entourage of European leaders descends on Washington for talks with Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy.

US President Donald Trump has been reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin's intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

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US President Donald Trump has been reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin’s intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

Russian forces struck the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on the late evening of 18 August - at the same time as multilateral talks on ending the Russo-Ukrainian war were under way in Washington.

Russia's demands to transfer control over part of Donetsk region to it imply Ukraine's abandonment of a well-fortified defensive line, while containing neither guarantees of abandonment of any territories that the Russian side currently controls,

Mr. Putin, the president of Russia, the man who has proclaimed that my country shouldn’t exist — that it’s a historical mistake, to be fixed by Russian soldiers — was welcomed effusively to Alaska by the president of the United States. Mr. Putin exited his plane and diplomatic isolation and walked a red carpet like an honored guest.

According to ISW analysts, Putin continues to rely on slow, grinding infantry assaults, limiting the pace at which Russian forces can advance. Ukraine’s drone strikes have significantly undermined Russia’s ability to deploy heavy equipment on the battlefield,

"Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month.

Russian forces have occupied the village of Zelenyi Hai in Kharkiv Oblast and advanced in Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts, DeepState analysts have said. Source: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts Details: Russian troops occupied Zelenyi Hai and advanced near the town of Lozova in Kharkiv Oblast.