During the U.S. visit as part of the Ukrainian delegation, the chief of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, held a meeting with the national security advisers from the USA, UK, Germany, and France.
In line with the agreements reached between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary the first state-run bilingual school and gymnasium for Ukrainian children was opened in Budapest.
The partners should change the discourse regarding the vision of the goals of their assistance to Ukraine from preventing its defeat to ensuring its victory.
In the zone of responsilblity of Operational Command South, Ukrainian defenders repelled one Russian assault in the Orichiv sector and two more – in the Prydniprovske sector.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that Ukraine was fully within its rights to launch its offensive into Russia's Kursk region as an act of self-defense.
On the night of Aug 30-31, the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 24 Russian Shahed-131/136 type drones, while 25 crashed on their own. Three drones flew to Russia and Belarus.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz at the Pentagon, where the two top defense officials discussed, among other things, Poland's continued leadership in helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.
Ukraine is participating in the 39th International Congress of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which began in Trieste, Italy.
A Ukrainian delegation headed by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko has begun its visit to Washington. The first meeting was held with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell intends to visit Ukraine in September-October to give a final push to the EU cooperation with Ukraine on military support before the end of his mandate in the "old" European Commission.
Ukraine seeks to engage arms manufacturers in the development of effective laser guidance, AI for drone swarms, own rocket salvo systems, and cheap missiles.