Author: THE NEW YORK TIMES

After meeting the Russian president, President Trump told European leaders he now favors giving up territory Ukraine controls to Russia to end the fighting, a concession Ukraine has long opposed.

President Trump spoke with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who said he would visit Washington on Monday. Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia offered vague statements about progress after they met.

Russian forces are closing in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dobropillia, prompting urgent evacuations of residents just six miles from the front line.

Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said without evidence that Erika McEntarfer “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

Officials from Japan to California issued warnings after an 8.8-magnitude quake off Russia’s coast. Hours later, there were no immediate reports of major damage, although some areas remained on alert.

President Trump, meeting with Britain’s prime minister in Scotland, called on Russia to stop its attacks in Ukraine in less than two weeks or face new sanctions and tariffs.

Both nations accused the other of firing first in their deadliest fighting in more than a decade. Thai authorities said the clashes had killed 11 civilians and a soldier.