Russia-Ukraine battle: Listing of key occasions, day 1,284 | Russia-Ukraine battle Information

Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,284 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, August 31:

Combating

• Russia launched “huge” strikes in opposition to Ukraine in a single day on Saturday, with a complete of 14 areas hit, in accordance with Ukrainian officers.
• Not less than one individual was killed and 30 others wounded in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, whereas residential buildings have been hit and scores of houses left with out gasoline or electrical energy. The cities of Dnipro and Pavlohrad within the central area of Dnipropetrovsk additionally got here underneath assault early on Saturday, inflicting fires.
• Ukraine’s Air Drive stated it had downed 510 of 537 drones and 38 of 45 missiles launched by Russia within the in a single day assault.
• In Ukraine’s Kherson, a 74-year-old man was additionally killed when Russian forces shelled the town, in accordance with officers.
• The chief of Russia’s normal workers, Valery Gerasimov, stated that Russian forces are waging a nonstop offensive alongside nearly the complete entrance line in Ukraine and have the “strategic initiative”.
• In a speech to his deputies, Gerasimov additionally stated that Russian forces now management 99.7 % of Ukraine’s Luhansk area, 79 % of the Donetsk area, 74 % of the Zaporizhia area and 76 % of the Kherson area. He went on to assert that Russian troops have nearly fully blockaded the town of Kupiansk, within the Kharkiv area, and management about half of its space.
• However Ukrainian army spokesperson Viktor Trehubov stated that Kyiv’s forces had scored front-line successes, maintaining Russian troops from seizing targets within the Donetsk area and halting additional advances into the Dnipropetrovsk area. In a single space, he stated, Kyiv’s troops had surrounded Russian items.
• Ukraine’s army additionally claimed assaults in Russia, saying it had struck the Krasnodar and Syzran oil refineries in a single day on Saturday, setting off fires at each services.
• Russia’s TASS state information company additionally stated that Ukrainian shelling left greater than 17,000 individuals with out energy within the border city of Rylsk in Russia’s Kursk area.
• Kursk’s Performing Governor Alexander Khinshtein stated that 201 our bodies have been discovered within the Russian area since January 1, following Ukraine’s invasion of the Russian area, and that 590 individuals are nonetheless lacking.

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated that its forces shot down 233 Ukrainian drones, one guided bomb and 4 missiles in a 24-hour interval, in accordance with TASS.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been pushing for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused the Kremlin of utilizing “the time meant for getting ready a leaders’-level [peace] assembly to organise new huge assaults”, and referred to as for extra worldwide sanctions on Moscow and its backers.
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Zelenskyy over the cellphone and reaffirmed his assist for a peaceable settlement in Ukraine, saying that “India extends full assist to all efforts” to revive peace and stability, in accordance with an announcement from New Delhi.
• The European Union’s prime diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated the bloc will study how you can use frozen Russian property to fund Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction after the battle. However confiscating the property – that are price 210 billion euros ($245.85bn) – now shouldn’t be politically real looking, she stated.
• Kallas’s feedback come after some EU international locations, together with Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, referred to as for the property to be seized now and be used to assist Kyiv. However EU heavyweights France and Germany – together with Belgium, which holds many of the property – have rebuffed the concept.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned Russia’s persevering with assaults on Ukraine, saying that diplomatic efforts in latest weeks had been “answered with an much more aggressive strategy by this regime in Moscow in opposition to the inhabitants in Ukraine”.
• “This can even not cease till we guarantee collectively that Russia, at the very least for financial causes, and maybe additionally for army causes … can not proceed this battle,” Merz added in feedback at an occasion within the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• United States President Donald Trump outlined how his coverage on Ukraine suits along with his America First agenda, saying, “We’re not spending any cash within the battle”, describing this as a “huge distinction” as compared with the “a whole lot of billions of {dollars}” the US was beforehand spending.
• He additionally advised The Each day Caller that the US is not going to ship floor troops to Ukraine and that the US now sells tools to NATO. “We don’t promote it to Ukraine. We promote it to NATO. They pay for the tools,” Trump stated.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal introduced that the US State Division had authorized the sale of Patriot air defence methods for Ukraine for an estimated value of $179.1m and satellite tv for pc communications companies price $150m.