🇦🇲 / 🇦🇿 Pashinyan and Aliyev to meet in the US on August 8th. US President Donald Trump is expected to host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Friday. The announcement would mark a major diplomatic step following decades of conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Worth noting that the timing also coincides with Trump’s self-imposed deadline for Russia to agree to a Ukraine ceasefire.

🇺🇦 Russian missile and drone attack killed 31 people in Kyiv. The assault was one of the deadliest in Kyiv this year. The attack damaged residential buildings, a hospital, and multiple schools. Meanwhile, Washington signalled potential new sanctions on Russia, and Germany pledged additional air defence systems.

🇱🇹 Lithuanian PM Gintautas Paluckas stepped down last Thursday. This decision followed weeks of protests and investigations into his past business dealings and a resurfaced criminal case. The entire Cabinet is expected to follow, throwing the country into political uncertainty just as Russia prepares joint military drills with neighbouring Belarus. Paluckas has denied wrongdoing but said the scandals were paralysing the government.

🇵🇱 The Polish government announced that internal border controls will remain in place until at least October 4. These were originally set to expire August 5. Officials say the temporary checks, introduced in July in response to rising illegal migration, have already screened nearly half a million travellers and denied entry to 185 people lacking proper documents. Though the measures break from Schengen norms, Poland insists they are both effective and coordinated with EU partners.

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