Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,256

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, August 3:

Fighting

• Kyiv’s subject medication warned residents of the Ukrainian superior to instrumentality structure connected Saturday nighttime owed to the takeoff of a Russian MiG-31K, the bearer of the Russian Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, successful a station connected Telegram.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that its squad heard explosions and saw fume coming from an “auxiliary facility” located 1,200 metres from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant successful Ukraine.
• The Russian-installed medication of the works said that a civilian was killed by Ukrainian shelling. A occurrence that broke retired adjacent the works was brought nether control, the administrators added successful a station connected Telegram.
• An aged antheral was killed wrong a location that caught occurrence owed to falling Ukrainian drone debris successful Russia’s Samara region, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev posted connected Telegram.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed a defender astatine an concern installation and caused a occurrence successful Russia’s Rostov region, acting Governor Yury Slyusar said. “The subject repelled a monolithic aerial onslaught during the night”, destroying drones implicit 7 districts, Slyusar wrote connected Telegram.
• Ukraine’s subject quality bureau (HUR) said that an detonation killed 5 soldiers from the Russian-backed Akhmat portion connected a minibus adjacent Russian-occupied Melitopol connected Saturday.
• A Russian drone onslaught killed a 12-year-old lad and near a 13-year-old hospitalised with shrapnel wounds successful the colony of Sveska successful Ukraine’s Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
• Ukraine’s SBU quality bureau said that Ukrainian drones deed Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk subject airfield, which has been utilized to motorboat waves of long-range drones astatine Ukraine. The SBU claimed it besides deed a mill successful Penza, which it said supplies Russia’s subject with electronics.
• Ukrainian forces deed an lipid refinery successful Ryazan, astir 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a occurrence connected its premises, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said connected Telegram.
• Residents of the Korabel neighbourhood successful Ukraine’s confederate larboard metropolis of Kherson were urged to evacuate by the caput of the region’s subject medication aft Russian forces damaged a span that connected the neighbourhood with the remainder of the city.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces had captured the colony of Oleksandro-Kalynove successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk portion connected Saturday.
• The Defence Ministry successful Moscow said successful its regular study that its defence units downed a full of 338 Ukrainian drones overnight into Saturday morning. It did not accidental however galore Ukrainian drones were launched.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said it had downed 45 of 53 Russian drones launched towards its territory overnight into Saturday morning.
• Russia launched 6,129 Shahed-type drones against Ukraine successful July 2025, the Kyiv Independent reported, 14 times much than the 423 drones it launched during the aforesaid period past year.

Politics and diplomacy

• The New York Times reported that 2 unnamed Indian officials said their state would support buying Russian oil, adjacent aft United States President Donald Trump precocious imposed an unspecified penalty for the country’s acquisition of Russian lipid and subject equipment.
• Armenia’s Ministry of Defence said that its peacekeeping brigade would undertake associated drills with the US subject from August 12 to 20, Interfax reported. Ahead of a previous associated drill with the US successful September 2023, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine meant it was incapable to conscionable Armenia’s information needs.
• Ukrainian authorities detained respective officials implicit a “large-scale corruption scheme” successful the defence sector, conscionable days aft lawmakers restored the independency of the country’s 2 main investigative bodies.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies