Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met U.S. President Donald Trump on July 8 on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Zelensky dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had supported calls for elections, and publicly addressed the dispute in a released transcript. Ukrainian forces have recaptured nearly all of the Dnipropetrovsk region while Patriot missile deliveries from Western allies have declined.