Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,265

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, August 12:

Fighting

• Two ambulance workers were killed successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Horlivka, successful the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, Russian-installed head Ivan Prikhodko said successful a station connected Telegram. The operator of the ambulance was besides successful a superior condition, Prikhodko said.
• Russian forces launched dozens of attacks connected Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting 4 radical and injuring seven, determination Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said successful a station connected Telegram. Two flat buildings and 30 houses were damaged, helium added.
• Russian forces killed 2 civilians and injured 11 successful the Donetsk portion connected Sunday, Governor Vadym Filashkin said successful a station connected Telegram.
• A Russian onslaught killed a antheral and injured 2 women successful the colony of Kupiansk-Vuzlovy, successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said successful a station connected Telegram.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian forces “used much than a 1000 aerial bombs and astir 1,400 onslaught drones against Ukraine” successful the past week. The latest figures amusement that Russia is continuing its aggravated bombardment of the state aft carrying retired a record 6,297 drone attacks connected Ukraine successful July.
• Russian forces occupied the colony of Zatyshok, successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Ukrainian battlefield monitoring radical DeepState reported.

Ukrainian rescuers and policemen enactment astatine the tract of the Russian onslaught connected a autobus presumption successful Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, connected August 10, 2025 [Oleg Movchaniuk/EPA]

Ceasefire talks

• Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov said that Moscow hopes the meeting betwixt Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump successful Alaska connected Friday volition springiness “impulse to the normalisation of bilateral relations” betwixt the 2 countries, Russia’s state-run TASS quality bureau reports.
• Speaking to journalists connected Monday astir the upcoming meeting, Trump again said that “there’ll beryllium immoderate swapping, there’ll beryllium immoderate changes successful land” discussed, but that helium volition besides archer Putin: “You’ve got to extremity this war.”
• Asked if Zelenskyy would beryllium invited to the talks, Trump said: “He wasn’t portion of it… I would accidental helium could go, but he’s gone to a batch of meetings. He’s been determination for 3 and a fractional years, and thing happened.”
• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told US broadcaster ABC connected Sunday that “when it comes to this full contented of territory, erstwhile it comes to acknowledging, for example, possibly successful a aboriginal woody that Russia is controlling de facto, factually, immoderate of the territory of Ukraine, it has to beryllium effectual recognition, and not a governmental de jure recognition.”
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that French, United Kingdom and different European leaders, arsenic good arsenic EU and NATO chiefs, volition sermon “further options to exert unit connected Russia”, and the “preparation of imaginable bid negotiations and related issues of territorial claims and security”, astatine virtual talks connected Wednesday.

Sanctions

• The EU’s apical diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said that the bloc is moving connected “more sanctions against Russia, much subject enactment for Ukraine and much enactment for Ukraine’s budgetary needs and accession process to articulation the EU”, aft European overseas ministers held emergency talks connected Monday earlier the Trump-Putin gathering connected Friday.
• The European Commission said it received 1.6 cardinal euros ($1.86bn) “in alleged windfall profits” from involvement connected “immobilised assets of the Russian Central Bank” successful the archetypal fractional of 2025, and that 95 percent of the funds volition beryllium utilized to enactment Ukraine done the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism (ULCM).

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump volition clasp talks with European leaders and Zelenskyy connected Wednesday, the European Commission property bureau told the Kyiv Independent media outlet.
• Zelenskyy said helium held calls with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies