Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,266

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, August 13:

Fighting

• A Russian onslaught killed a civilian and injured 1 different idiosyncratic successful Shakhove, successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russian forces bombed the municipality of Bilozerske, besides successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, overnight, sidesplitting 2 radical and injuring seven, including a 16-year-old boy, the determination prosecutor’s bureau said.
• The AFP quality bureau reported that Ukrainians were evacuating Bilozerske arsenic Russian troops made gains successful the area, portion Ukrainian battlefield monitoring radical DeepState reported that Russian forces had precocious successful Nikanorivka, Shcherbynivka and adjacent Petrivka successful the Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia wants Ukraine to retreat from the full Donetsk portion successful eastbound Ukraine arsenic portion of a ceasefire deal, arsenic Russian person Vladimir Putin is owed to conscionable United States President Donald Trump for talks astir the warfare in Alaska connected Friday.
• The Ukrainian General Staff said its forces were progressive successful “difficult” warring adjacent to Pokrovsk and Dobropillia successful Donetsk, and that reinforcements were required to artifact attacks by tiny groups of Russian troops.
• Ukraine’s SBU quality work claimed that Ukrainian drones deed a Russian long-range drone retention warehouse successful the Kzyl-Yul colony successful the Russian republic of Tatarstan.
• A idiosyncratic died aft being injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Monday successful Arzamas, successful Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency, which cited the determination governor.

• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) main Rafael Mariano Grossi said that IAEA unit had observed fume rising from an medication gathering astatine Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but that determination was “no radiation increase, nary atomic information interaction reported, and nary casualties”.

• Russian forces changeable down six guided bombs and 179 drones successful 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported connected Tuesday, according to TASS.

Ukrainian residents of the municipality of Bilozerske committee a autobus to evacuate pursuing a strike, Donetsk region, Tuesday [Genya Savilov/AFP]

Ceasefire

• Zelenskyy said that the summit betwixt Trump and Putin successful Alaska connected Friday is simply a “personal victory” for Putin, “because helium is gathering connected US territory”, and due to the fact that helium “has someway postponed sanctions”.
• Zelenskyy besides said helium had received a “first signal” from US envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia mightiness hold to a ceasefire, without providing further details.
• White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the gathering successful Alaska’s capital, Anchorage, would beryllium “a listening workout for the president”, and that the purpose was for him “to locomotion distant with a amended knowing of however we tin extremity this war”.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov spoke connected the phone connected Tuesday. The US State Department said that “both sides confirmed their committedness to guarantee a palmy event” successful Alaska.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Putin spoke with North Korean person Kim Jong Un astir his upcoming gathering with Trump. Putin besides expressed appreciation for North Korea’s enactment successful the “liberation of the Kursk Region from the invading forces of the Kyiv regime”, the ministry said successful a station connected Telegram.
• Zelenskyy held calls with the president of Turkiye, the emir of Qatar, the president of Romania and the premier curate of the Netherlands connected Tuesday.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies