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European leaders will joinUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump at theWhite House on August 18 for talks following Trump’s Alaska summit with RussianPresident Vladimir Putin.
European Commission PresidentUrsula von der Leyen confirmed her attendance on Sunday, posting on X that shewould meet “President Trump and other European leaders in the White Housetomorrow” at Zelenskyy’s request.
This afternoon, I will welcome @ZelenskyyUa in Brussels.Together, we will participate in the Coalition of Willing VTC. At the request of President Zelenskyy, I will join the meeting with President Trump and other European leaders in the White House tomorrow.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) August 17, 2025NATO Secretary General MarkRutte and Finnish President Alexander Stubb are also expected, according to aEuropean official cited by CNN.
German Chancellor FriedrichMerz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have likewise committed. Merz’s officedescribed the gathering as “an exchange of information” with Trump followinghis meeting with Putin.
Morgen reise ich mit Präsident @ZelenskyyUa und anderen europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs nach Washington. Wir tauschen uns mit US-Präsident Trump aus: zum Stand der Friedensbemühungen, Sicherheitsgarantien, territorialen Fragen und der weiteren Unterstützung der Ukraine.
— Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz (@bundeskanzler) August 17, 2025The wave of visits comes afterTrump pledged to intensify diplomacy at the Alaska summit, later writing onTruth Social that a “peace agreement” — not a ceasefire — was the best way toend the war.
Separately, Ukraine’s coreEuropean allies — the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” — will convene todayby video conference ahead of Zelenskyy’s White House meeting. The Élysée Palacesaid the session, co-chaired by Macron, Merz, and Starmer, begins at 3 p.m.local time (9 a.m. ET). It will be the coalition’s second meeting in a week,part of efforts to coordinate long-term security guarantees for Ukraine in theevent of a ceasefire.
Despite the diplomatic effortsto secure a ceasefire, hostilities persisted. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimedto have intercepted 46 Ukrainian drones overnight between August 16–17,including 16 over Belgorod and 14 over Nizhny Novgorod, with others shot downacross Voronezh, Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Kaluga, and Smolensk.
Ukraine’s General Staffreported 68 Russian airstrikes in the same period, involving 127 guided bombs,nearly 4,800 kamikaze drones, and more than 5,900 artillery and rocket attacksacross Sumy, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. It said itsforces repelled dozens of assaults from Kupiansk and Lyman to Kramatorsk,Toretsk, and Zaporizhzhia, claiming Russian losses of roughly 900 troops, fourtanks, eight armored vehicles, and nearly 50 artillery systems in a single day.
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