Right here is how issues stand on Monday, August 25:
Preventing
- Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s Donetsk area 23 occasions in a day, killing one particular person in Kostiantynivka, Governor Vadym Filashkin stated in a publish on Telegram on Sunday.
- Russian forces launched shelling and drone assaults on Ukraine’s Kherson area, killing one particular person and injuring two others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a publish on Telegram on Sunday.
- A Russian drone assault killed a 47-year-old lady within the Dubovykivska group of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Governor Serhiy Lysak stated in a publish on Telegram.
- A girl and an 11-year-old baby have been killed in a Ukrainian assault on a bridge in a Russian-occupied space of Ukraine’s Kherson area, Pavel Filipchuk, the Russian-appointed head of the Kakhovka district, wrote in a publish on Telegram.
- Ukrainian forces drove out Russian troops from the villages of Mykhailivka, Zeleny Hay, and Volodymyrivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, Oleksandr Syrskii, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, wrote on Fb.
- In the meantime, Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated on Sunday that Russian forces had captured the village of Filiya inside Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area.
- In Russia, officers accused Ukraine of attacking the Kursk Nuclear Energy Plant (NPP), near the border with Ukraine, and inflicting a fireplace.
- The United Nations nuclear watchdog, IAEA, stated that its monitoring confirmed “regular radiation ranges close to Kursk NPP” after Russia stated it diminished the reactor unit’s energy “because of auxiliary transformer injury” and extinguished a fireplace, with no accidents.
- Russian forces shot down 95 Ukrainian drones over Russian areas in a single day, Russia’s state TASS information company reported on Sunday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of warfare from either side on Sunday after mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Defence Ministry and the Ukrainian president stated.
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed assist for Ukraine’s requires safety ensures as a part of a possible peace take care of Russia, throughout a go to to Kyiv, the place he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday.
- Talking at a information convention, Carney stated the ensures may embody worldwide participation: “In Canada’s judgement, it’s not reasonable that the one safety assure could possibly be the power of the Ukrainian Armed Forces… that must be buttressed and bolstered.”
- Carney joined Zelenskyy for a ceremony in central Kyiv to mark Ukrainian Independence Day, which was additionally attended by the US particular envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
- Kellogg met Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who stated they mentioned the Ukraine-US minerals settlement in addition to safety ensures.
- United States Vice President JD Vance instructed the broadcaster NBC that Russia has made “important concessions” in direction of a negotiated settlement in its warfare on Ukraine.
- “They’ve recognised that they’re not going to have the ability to set up a puppet regime in Kyiv. That was, in fact, a significant demand firstly. And importantly, they’ve acknowledged that there’s going to be some safety assure to the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Vance stated.
- Russian Minister of Overseas Affairs Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview broadcast on Sunday {that a} group of countries, together with UN Safety Council members, needs to be the guarantors of Ukraine’s safety.
