Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,262

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, August 9:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught connected Ukraine’s confederate Odesa portion damaged an lipid depot owned by Azerbaijan’s authorities lipid institution SOCAR, 2 manufacture sources told the Reuters quality bureau connected Friday. Four radical were wounded successful the attack, 1 of the sources said.
• Ukrainian writer Viktoria Roshchyna, who died successful Russian captivity past year, was buried successful Kyiv, portion her colleagues called for planetary unit to unafraid the merchandise of different Ukrainian reporters held captive by Moscow.

Ceasefire

• United States President Donald Trump volition conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negociate an extremity to the warfare successful Ukraine connected August 15 successful Alaska. Trump made the announcement connected societal media aft helium said that the parties, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were adjacent to a ceasefire woody that could resoluteness the three-year conflict.
• Addressing reporters astatine the White House earlier connected Friday, Trump suggested an statement would impact immoderate speech of land. “There’ll beryllium immoderate swapping of territories to the betterment of both,” Trump said.
• Putin has presented the Trump medication with a ceasefire connection that demands large territorial concessions by Kyiv and a propulsion for planetary designation of Moscow’s claims connected Ukrainian territory successful speech for a halt to fighting, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing European and Ukrainian officials.
• Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and 3 ex-Soviet states successful a flurry of calls to little them connected his contacts with the US astir the warfare successful Ukraine.
• In his evening code to the nation, President Zelenskyy said it was imaginable to execute a ceasefire arsenic agelong arsenic capable unit was applied to Russia. He said helium had held much than a twelve conversations with leaders of antithetic countries, and his squad was successful changeless interaction with the US.

Economy and finance

• Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom volition little the terms headdress paid for seaborne Russian-origin crude lipid to $47.60 from $60 per tube implicit Moscow’s warfare successful Ukraine, Ottawa’s Finance Department said successful a statement.
• Ukraine is acceptable to person implicit 3.2 cardinal euros ($3.73bn)  successful backing aft the European Council adopted a determination connected the 4th regular disbursement of enactment nether the EU’s Ukraine Facility.
• The backing aims chiefly to bolster Ukraine’s macro-financial stableness and enactment the functioning of its nationalist administration, the assembly said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies