Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,261

Here is however things basal connected Friday, August 8:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian subject said its drone units deed the Afipsky lipid refinery successful Russia’s Krasnodar region. It was not instantly wide what the grade of the harm was astatine the refinery, which, unneurotic with the Krasnodar refinery, processed 7.2 cardinal metric tonnes of crude lipid successful 2024.
• Local Russian exigency services said they had extinguished a occurrence astatine the Afipsky refinery, saying it was caused by fallen drone debris. The Russian Ministry of Defence said aerial defence systems had changeable down 9 Ukrainian drones successful the portion overnight.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said aerial defence systems besides changeable down 8 British-made Storm Shadow missiles launched by the Ukrainian service implicit the past 24 hours.
• Russia besides deed a Ukrainian railway hub utilized for transferring weapons and subject instrumentality to Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, the ministry added.
• Gas supplies continued connected Thursday done the Orlovka interconnector successful confederate Ukraine, which was attacked by Russian drones connected Wednesday, the Ukrainian state transmission relation said.

Ceasefire

• Russia’s Deputy United Nations Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin whitethorn conscionable with United States President Donald Trump adjacent week, but said helium was not alert of immoderate planned gathering betwixt Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• Trump said Putin does not person to hold to conscionable with Zelenskyy successful bid to person a gathering with him.
• Putin said that the United Arab Emirates is 1 of the suitable locations to clasp a gathering with Trump.

• Putin added that helium was not “on the whole” against gathering Zelenskyy, adding that “certain conditions should beryllium created” for specified a meeting. He stressed that the existent concern was “far” from being acceptable for it.
• French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France’s afloat enactment for a ceasefire successful Ukraine and the motorboat of talks aimed astatine reaching a lasting and coagulated peace, pursuing a “long discussion” with Zelenskyy and different European leaders.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she had spoken with Zelenskyy astir the developments of the past days and adjacent steps.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the struggle successful Ukraine during a telephone telephone with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

Sanctions and tariffs

• Russia and India stressed their committedness to a “strategic partnership” successful bilateral information talks successful Moscow, a time aft Trump announced higher tariffs connected imports from India due to the fact that of its purchases of Russian oil.
• Russia’s Interfax quality bureau quoted Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval arsenic saying that New Delhi was looking guardant to a sojourn from Putin by the extremity of the year.

• Russia’s cardinal slope has tweaked its rules for non-residents, allowing foreigners’ funds from peculiar type-C accounts to walk to Russian investors erstwhile progressive successful the speech of assets, a determination that could escaped up blocked superior successful Russia and abroad.
• As Russia sought to ratchet up subject accumulation for the warfare successful Ukraine, a state-owned explosives shaper circumvented Western sanctions by purchasing instrumentality made by Germany’s Siemens from a middleman that imports exertion from China, the Reuters quality bureau reported.

Regional developments

• Zelenskyy said helium discussed a caller fiscal assistance programme that volition “strengthen Ukrainians present and successful the post-war period” connected a telephone with International Monetary Fund managing manager Kristalina Georgieva.
• Russia said it had protested to Italy this week implicit what it called “odious” anti-Russian statements, successful an ongoing enactment implicit the cancellation of a performance by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev successful Italy.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies