For today, links to reports from Reuters, Kyiv Post, the Associated Press, the Moscow Times, National Public Radio, Tass, and the Kyiv Independent; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE 8-6-25 is HERE, or scroll down. GAZA and LEBANON entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM
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NEWER Kremlin says Putin and Trump will meet soon, Zelenskiy seeks European role in peace settlement, by Gleb Bryanski and Yuliia Dysa | Reuters MOSCOW / KYIV — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in the coming days, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said today, in what would be the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2021. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from Kyiv Post.
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Putin says he hopes to meet Trump as the White House presses for a peace deal on Ukraine, by Dasha Litvinova, Barry Hatton and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux | AP Russian President Vladimir Putin said today he hopes to meet next week with U.S. President Donald Trump, possibly in the United Arab Emirates. The news came on the eve . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Moscow Times.
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Trump may meet with Putin and Zelenskyy soon. Reported by Franco Ordoñez and A Martínez | NPR President Trump says prospects look good for a meeting on ending the war in Ukraine with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But he’s been disappointed before. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Putin not against meeting Zelensky, conditions should be created. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is not against holding a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky but conditions should be created to do that. “I have reiterated,” he said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at Krasnodar oil refinery. From the Moscow Times. An overnight Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil refinery in the southern Krasnodar region, local authorities said early today. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for report from the Kyiv Independent.
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