🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 The United States and Ukraine's European allies agree that Europe, not the United States, will fund further military and security assistance to Ukraine. US Vice President JD Vance gave an interview to Fox News on August 10 and reiterated the Trump Administration's consistent position that the United States will no longer directly fund the Ukrainian military effort, but that Europe can continue to buy weapons from US manufacturers for Ukraine and Europe's own defensive needs. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated in an interview with Face the Nation published on August 10 that the "floodgate" of lethal aid packages to Ukraine opened after US President Donald Trump met with Rutte on July 14 and that Canada and European NATO allies will continue to fund weapons for Ukraine. Rutte stated that these deliveries are in addition to Europe's investments in European and Ukrainian defense industrial facilities and that there will be additional European aid package announcements in the coming weeks. Western outlets reported on August 7 that NATO allies, the European Parliament, and several international banks — including US JP Morgan Chase, German Commerzbank, and Canadian RBC Capital Markets — are backing the new Bank for Defense, Security, and Resilience (DSRB), an international bank that will specialize in lending to NATO and allied countries for defense procurement.

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The United States and Ukraine's European allies agree that Europe, not the United States, will fund further military and security assistance to Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the August 15 summit in Alaska.

The Kremlin is attempting to use the upcoming Alaska summit to divide the United States from Europe rather than engage in meaningful peace efforts.

Ukraine's European allies continue to signal their support for Ukraine and US-led peace efforts ahead of the Alaska summit.

Russian tank losses appear to be declining as Russian forces continue to deprioritize mechanized assaults across the frontline, indicating that the Russian command recognizes that it cannot protect vehicles from Ukrainian drone strike capabilities on the frontline and near rear.

Ukraine continued its long-range drone strike campaign against Russian military and energy infrastructure overnight on August 9 to 10, including the first drone strike against a target in the Komi Republic.

Ukrainian drone manufacturers have developed a new drone capable of intercepting higher-speed Russian drones.

Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman.

https://fxtwitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1954737245979615622

🇷🇺🇺🇦 It's rumoured that Russia's breakthrough east of Dobropillya has bloomed further, with Russian forces capturing the villages of Nove Shakhove, Novyi Donbas and Vilne, and entering the villages of Ivanivka, Zolotyi Kolodyaz (again), Rubizhne, Dorozhnje and Kucheriv Yar.

It's also reported that Ukrainian forces moved back into northern Volodymyrivka after the Russians failed to consolidate there.

If these reports are true, then it would put Russia just 3.4km from the Dobropillya - Kramatorsk Highway, and 3.9km from the outskirts of Dobropillya.

🔗 AMK Mapping

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian breakthrough has been confirmed, Ukrainian "New Donbass Line" bypassed in the most vulnerable point.

Russian assault platoons are rushing behind Ukrainian lines. They can now turn west and threaten Dobropolye or continue North and Kramatorsk will be in danger.

The situation is not bad, it is catastrophic.

To explain, Russian forces used hundreds of motorcycles in the last few weeks to slowly gain positions behind Ukrainian troops.

They progress very fast behind the lines, establish positions and wait for reinforcements. It is very fast and very efficient....

Here is what usually happens to these guys. They all die. Thousands if not ten of thousands of them have been killed, mainly by drone.

But when there is no more drone team, behind the line, who will stop them ? Not artillery and not the non-existent infantry...

On paper, Ukrainian brigades are supposed to be there. But they are paper brigades. Hundreds of soldiers are deserting, many died or are wounded and the recruitment is not working.

So you have big holes everywhere. Only drone teams are saving it by killing more and more Russians

📝: Notice how there are virtually no fortifications behind the New Donbas Line. If Ukraine fails to plug the gap, its armies defending the Sloviansk-Konstantinovka sector can be potentially surrounded and if they are, the war will end with a total Russian victory.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Telegram channel, 'Dobropillya Info' writes that Russian DRGs have reached the city's outskirts and are currently attempting to infiltrate and occupy houses and apartments in the city.

🔗 https://xn--r1a.website/Dobropillya_info/13316

🇺🇸❌🏳️‍🌈 BREAKING: Supreme Court has been formally asked to overturn same-sex marriage ruling, per ABC.

Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees.

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🇺🇸❌🇵🇰❗️ — The U.S. Department of State has officially classified the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), also known as the Majeed Brigade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization!

🇺🇸 President Donald J. Trump has officially declared a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia.

Full text of the executive order ⬇️

🔗 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/declaring-a-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 U.S. president Donald Trump is not fully onboard with the idea of allowing the Ukrainian president, be a part of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska.

Trump criticised Zelensky for wasting 3.5 years going to meetings and not achieving an end to the war.

🔗 Clash Report

🇺🇸 U.S. president, Donald Trump, stated that Washington D.C. "will not be the only city where a Crime Emergency will be declared by decree".

🔗 Fact Post News

US Secretary of Interior announces the U.S. Park Police will be deployed to safeguard D.C.’s monuments, restore order on the National Mall, and clean up the capital.

🔗 Insider Paper

🇺🇸💥📹 — Video from above shows the aftermath of the huge explosion reported at U.S. Steel Clairton plant in Pennsylvania

Multiple people have been injured and more trapped inside the building

🇨🇳❌🇵🇭 — The bow of Chinese Coast Guard vessel No. 3104 was smashed and damaged

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🇺🇸 — California Governor Gavin Newsom threatens to retaliate against the GOP-led gerrymandering in Texas and other states by gerrymandering their own district maps to favor Democratic Party candidates if Republican states cease their new gerrymandering efforts.