Trump-Putin in phone call after US mission to Moscow and Kiev, Putin denies plans of aggression against Europe

Trump-Putin phone call after the US envoys' mission to Moscow and Kiev. “We have no plan to attack Europe,” the Russian leader is said to have assured, according to reports from the Kremlin, which dismisses “the myths about the Russian threat” as a pretext for the Europeans “to increase support for Ukraine and military spending.” Once the three days of truce expired, Moscow resumes attacks on Kiev, but Zelensky sees the possibility of a meeting between Russian, Ukrainian and American negotiators as early as September. Supplies of Patriot missiles to Ukraine from London and Berlin. Budapest expels 10 Russian diplomats for "unacceptable activities". Moscow: "The response will be harsh and painful."

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Following several waves of attacks against one of Dtek's thermoelectric power plants, the latter stopped producing electricity and as of this evening the supply of electricity has completely stopped in Mykolaiv and the community of Kherson. This was announced by the electricity company, cited by the Ukrainian media. Since the start of the large-scale invasion, Dtek's thermal power plants have been attacked by the enemy more than 230 times.

"We must support Ukraine, but here there is a fundamental misunderstanding: the turning point in negotiations and identifying a mediator for Europe in a voiceless Europe are necessary to defend the Ukrainian population tooth and nail. So we are at a turning point, then they ask us to send weapons? Here we are consistent, I won't change my mind: it will not be with weapons, few of them, that we will solve the problem". Giuseppe Conte says it from the stage of the Avs party in Rome.

“If these talks mean that you are preparing an attack against us, I assure you that the war will be completely different and very short.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared this, quoting the words spoken several times by President Vladimir Putin and inviting Europe to "remember them". "We have no intention of attacking anyone. It's nonsense, idiocy. It's the total absence of any ability to think in terms of the state," added Lavrov, quoted by Tass.

The head of Russian diplomacy said he believed it was unlikely that Europe would "attack Russia while claiming that we are preparing aggression against Europe". "It's even ridiculous. On the one hand, they say that Russia is losing and therefore we need to support Ukraine in every way, increase this support and Ukraine will win; on the other hand, this same Russia which in their eyes is "losing" is preparing an attack on Europe. From the point of view of a politician, it is not serious to say such nonsense," he said.