Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,268

Here is however things basal connected Friday, August 15:

Fighting

• Ukrainian drones struck 2 Russian cities successful attacks that injured astatine slightest 16 people, section authorities said.
• Thirteen radical were wounded, 2 seriously, erstwhile a drone struck an flat gathering successful the confederate Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don, and 3 civilians were wounded successful the metropolis of Belgorod adjacent the borderline with Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian subject said its drones deed a Russian refinery successful the Volgograd portion overnight, causing immense fires.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said Russian forces captured the settlements of Shcherbynivka and Andriivka-Klevtsove successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian troops person stabilised an country of eastbound Ukraine wherever Russian forces had made a abrupt propulsion this week to pierce Ukrainian defences, the Donetsk region’s Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
• Ukraine said tiny groups of Russian infantry had thrust immoderate 10 kilometres (six miles) towards its main antiaircraft enactment adjacent the municipality of Dobropillia, raising fears of a wider breakthrough connected the beforehand enactment that would further endanger cardinal Ukrainian cities.
• The Russian advance, coming arsenic United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are owed to conscionable successful Alaska connected Friday, appears aimed astatine pressuring Kyiv to springiness up onshore successful instrumentality for bid with Russia, observers said.

Alaska summit

• Trump said helium believes Putin is acceptable to extremity his warfare successful Ukraine, speaking connected the eve of Friday’s acme betwixt the 2 leaders successful the metropolis of Anchorage, but a bid woody would apt necessitate astatine slightest a 2nd gathering involving Ukraine’s leader, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• Trump and Putin volition conscionable face-to-face connected Friday earlier holding a associated quality conference, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.

• Trump volition spell into talks with Putin hoping to execute a halt to the warring successful Ukraine, but a solution to the warfare volition instrumentality longer, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

• Putin said the US was making “sincere efforts” to halt the warfare successful Ukraine and suggested Moscow and Washington could hold connected a atomic arms woody arsenic portion of a wider effort to fortify peace.
• Putin said “in bid to make semipermanent conditions for bid betwixt our countries, and successful Europe, and successful the satellite arsenic a whole”, determination could beryllium agreements reached “in the country of power implicit strategical violative weapons”.
• The Kremlin warned it would beryllium a large mistake to foretell the result of the upcoming summit, the state-run Interfax quality bureau reported. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said determination were nary plans to motion immoderate documents pursuing the summit.
• The talks successful Alaska betwixt Trump and Putin contiguous a viable accidental to marque advancement connected ending the warfare successful Ukraine, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s bureau said successful a statement.

Military aid

• Zelenskyy said helium had a elaborate treatment connected imaginable information guarantees for Ukraine during a “productive meeting” with the United Kingdom’s Starmer.
• Zelenskyy said Kyiv had truthful acold secured $1.5bn from its European allies to bargain US weapons arsenic portion of a mechanics – the NATO Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List inaugural – that helium said “truly strengthens our defence”.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump expressed a willingness to European leaders connected Wednesday that the US and different allies should beryllium portion of giving Ukraine information guarantees to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.
• The US Agency for International Development (USAID) did not show the uses of 5,175 Starlink terminals sent to Ukraine, with astir fractional of the operational units ending up successful areas afloat oregon partially held by Moscow, according to a study by the agency’s interior watchdog.

Prisoners of war

• The United Arab Emirates has successfully mediated a caller speech of captives betwixt Russia and Ukraine. Some 84 captives were released from each side, bringing the full fig exchanged done UAE mediation to 4,349.
• Ukraine brought location 84 prisoners of warfare that included 51 civilians, Ukrainian officials said, astatine slightest 1 of whom had been held for much than a decade.

Regional developments

• Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin met with North Korean person Kim Jong Un during an authoritative sojourn to Pyongyang, the Russian parliament said. Volodin, a adjacent state of Putin, conveyed greetings from the Russian person and thanked Kim for North Korea’s enactment of Russia’s subject run successful Ukraine.

Economy

• Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko ordered a reappraisal of each licences to excavation strategical minerals successful the country, arsenic portion of a broader effort to assistance the war-ravaged system and unafraid caller investments nether a minerals woody with the US.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies