Democrat strategist, Keith Edwards, said in a post to X the letter "says a whole lot of nothing," and "may have been written by AI."

The United States will keep trying to create a scenario to help end Russia's war in Ukraine, but that might not be possible, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS on Sunday (Aug 17).

The governor of the embattled eastern Donetsk region, Mr Vadym Filashkin, said Russian attacks killed five people in the area on Aug 16.