Because the conflict enters its 913th day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the scenario on Monday, August 26, 2024.
Combating
- A minimum of 18 individuals have been killed and 37 injured in Russian missile and drone assaults on Sunday which focused the front-line Ukrainian areas of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk.
- The Reuters information company stated its security adviser Ryan Evans was killed and two Reuters journalists injured, considered one of them severely, in a Russian assault that hit a lodge in Kramatorsk, about 20km (13 miles) from the entrance line in Ukraine’s east, on Saturday evening. Three different members of the group escaped unhurt.
- Russian officers stated six civilians have been killed in Ukrainian assaults on Russian border areas.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Ukraine’s forces superior as much as 3km (1.86 miles) in Russia’s Kursk area, taking management of two extra settlements there.
- Ukraine known as on Belarus to tug again what it described as vital ranges of Belarusian forces and tools, together with tanks and artillery, deployed within the Gomel area at their frequent border. The Ministry of International Affairs warned Belarus in opposition to making “tragic errors” whereas beneath stress from Moscow.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy stated negotiations have been persevering with with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland on a second summit for peace. Zelenskyy additionally stated he had instructed India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Kyiv, that he would assist India internet hosting the occasion.
- Pope Francis condemned the Ukrainian authorities’s transfer to ban a Russia-linked department of the nation’s Orthodox Church. “Don’t contact church buildings,” the pope stated in his weekly prayers, at some point after Zelenskyy signed the ban into legislation.
Weapons
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated it despatched extra missiles and artillery to the Kursk area the place 1000’s of Ukrainian troops superior throughout the Russian border on August 6.