Listed here are the important thing occasions on day 1,277 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, August 24:
Combating
- Russian forces launched a drone assault on a minibus in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, killing a 59-year-old man and wounding 5 others, in accordance with a Ukrainian official.
- A wave of Russian assaults on Ukraine’s Kherson additionally killed a 69-year-old man, wounded 17 individuals, and broken a college and an administrative constructing in a single district, native officers mentioned.
- Russian forces launched 448 assaults on 17 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area in a single day, in accordance with Ivan Fedorov, the pinnacle of the Zaporizhia Regional Navy Administration.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed its troops have taken management of two extra settlements – Seredne and Kleban-Byk – alongside the 1,000km (620-mile) entrance line within the Donetsk area in jap Ukraine, whereas the Ukrainian navy mentioned its forces had recaptured a settlement additional west, on the sting of the Dnipropetrovsk area.
- In Russia, a Ukrainian drone assault sparked a hearth on the Kursk Nuclear Energy Plant, broken an auxiliary transformer and led to discount within the working capability at one of many plant’s items, officers mentioned early on Sunday.
- Earlier, one individual was killed and one other injured after they drove over an explosive system dropped by a Ukrainian drone within the village of Kirillovka within the Bryansk area, the native governor mentioned.
- One other Russian civilian was killed in a focused Ukrainian drone assault within the Krasnoyarsk district of Russia’s Belgorod area, an official mentioned.
- Russian forces additionally shot down a drone flying in the direction of the Russian capital, Moscow, and intercepted 160 drones and 4 guided aerial bombs in a 24-hour interval, the TASS information company reported, citing officers.
- The drone barrage pressured a number of airports in central Russia to droop operations due to considerations over protected airspace, Russia’s air transport company Rosaviatsia mentioned.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as on international locations within the International South to assist diplomatic efforts to push Russia to agree to finish its struggle with Ukraine, following talks along with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa.
- Zelenskyy introduced new Ukrainian sanctions in opposition to 139 people and authorized entities working for Russia’s struggle, in addition to “28 residents of various international locations, who’re equally serving to the Russians in sustaining the occupation regime on our land and successfully sponsoring the Russian state”.
- The Wall Road Journal (WSJ) reported that the Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from launching long-range missile assaults on Russia, because the White Home tries to get Moscow to comply with peace talks. Al Jazeera couldn’t independently confirm the WSJ report, which cited unnamed US officers.
