Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,269

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, August 16:

Fighting

• The Ukrainian subject said that it struck the Syzran lipid refinery successful Russia’s Samara portion overnight, reporting a occurrence and explosions astatine the refinery, which it said produces a scope of fuels and is 1 of the biggest successful Russian vigor institution Rosneft’s system.
• The Ukrainian subject besides said it struck the larboard of Olya successful Russia’s Astrakhan region, hitting a vessel transporting drone parts and ammunition from Iran.
• Russia is preparing to trial its caller nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered cruise rocket and, if successful, plans to usage the results to bolster its negotiating presumption with the West, Ukrainian subject quality said.
• Ukrainian determination officials said Russia fired a ballistic rocket into the Dnipropetrovsk portion successful eastbound Ukraine, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and wounding astatine slightest 1 other, portion a drone damaged civilian infrastructure and caused a occurrence successful the Sumy portion successful the northeast.
• Russian troops besides took power of the colony of Oleksandrohrad successful the Donetsk portion of eastbound Ukraine, Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised Russia for continuing to onslaught Ukraine successful beforehand of the gathering successful Alaska betwixt United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “On the time of the negotiations, they besides termination people. And that says a lot,” Zelenskyy said.

Alaska summit

• Trump and Putin held their much-anticipated gathering successful the Alaskan metropolis of Anchorage, with the Russian person receiving the reddish carpet attraction and a US subject flyover arsenic helium deplaned.
• Both leaders provided little statements to reporters aft the shorter-than-expected meeting, which failed to execute its superior extremity – a woody bringing an extremity to Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.
• Speaking to reporters aft the meeting, Putin said his state is committed to ending the war, but the conflict’s “primary causes” indispensable beryllium eliminated.
• Putin besides warned Ukraine and its European allies not to propulsion a “wrench successful the works” and cautioned against attempts to usage “backroom dealings to behaviour provocations to torpedo the nascent progress”.
• Trump praised the “extremely productive meeting”, successful which helium said “many points were agreed to”. He conceded, however, that determination stay sticking points with Moscow, including astatine slightest 1 “significant” one.
• Trump said helium would telephone NATO officials and President Zelenskyy to sermon the meeting, and cautioned that “there’s nary woody until there’s a deal”.
• As Trump thanked Putin for his time, helium said helium hoped they would conscionable again soon. Putin rapidly responded by saying, successful English with a laugh, “Next time, successful Moscow” – a connection which Trump appeared reticent to accept.
• Speaking to Fox News later, Trump said Zelenskyy and Putin mean to acceptable up different gathering to effort to scope a ceasefire. He besides emphasised that it is up to the Ukrainian person to “get it done”.
• New consultations aimed astatine resolving points of hostility successful bilateral relations betwixt Russia and the US volition instrumentality spot soon, said Russia’s ambassador to the US, Alexander Darchiev, according to the RIA Novosti authorities quality agency.

International aid

• USAID is acrophobic that the Trump administration’s cancellation of autarkic assistance monitoring contracts for Ukraine has accrued the hazard of waste, fraud and abuse, according to the Department of State, Pentagon and USAID inspectors wide successful a caller report.
• Norway’s authorities said it was donating 1 cardinal kroner ($98.29m) to Ukraine for the acquisition of earthy state up of winter. Ukraine had been forced to summation state imports aft Russian rocket attacks damaged accumulation facilities successful the eastbound of the country.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies