Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,273

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, August 20:

Fighting

• Russian authorities person returned the remains of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said connected Monday, according to The Kyiv Independent quality outlet.
• Russia’s state-run TASS quality bureau confirmed that Russia returned the bodies of 1,000 soldiers, adding that Ukraine returned the bodies of 19 Russian soldiers.
• Separately, TASS reported that astir 1,370 Ukrainian soldiers were killed successful a azygous day, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence. Al Jazeera could not verify this assertion independently.
• Russian forces dropped 250kg (550 lbs) bombs connected the metropolis of Kostiantynivka successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Serhii Horbunov, the caput of the Kostiantynivka City Military Administration, wrote connected Facebook connected Monday. At slightest 2 radical were injured, and apartments and an acquisition gathering were damaged, Horbunov said.
• A Russian drone onslaught connected an ambulance injured 2 exigency workers successful the Kupiansk territory of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, determination constabulary said successful a station connected Telegram.
• TASS reports that a Ukrainian drone onslaught caused a powerfulness outage successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, according to the politician of Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky.
• The onslaught did not impact the cognition of the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness station, TASS aboriginal reported.
• Local officials successful the front-line metropolis of Kamianka-Dniprovska successful Russian-occupied Zaporizhia reported “massive” shelling from Ukrainian forces, causing astatine slightest six explosions and damaging a hospital, according to a TASS study that did not notation casualties.
• The member of Vitaly Milonov, a typical successful Russia’s State Duma, the little location successful parliament, died aft being injured “as a effect of subject action” successful Ukraine’s Luhansk region, TASS said. The lawmaker’s member was serving arsenic a unpaid successful Russian service quality erstwhile helium was injured, TASS reports.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote successful a station connected the Telegram messaging app that 52,000 radical person been evacuated from Ukraine’s Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions successful caller months owed to fighting.

Peace talks

• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “are successful the process of mounting it up”, Trump said successful narration to a projected bilateral gathering betwixt the 2 leaders. Trump made the remark successful a vigor amusement a time aft helium met with Zelenskyy and respective European leaders astatine the White House.
• Switzerland would beryllium acceptable to big Putin for bid talks, contempt an existing apprehension warrant for his apprehension from the International Criminal Court, the country’s overseas minister, Ignazio Cassis, said.
• Trump provided details to Fox News connected the quality of imaginable US engagement successful information guarantees for Ukraine, saying that US enactment would astir apt beryllium “by air”, whereas European countries “are consenting to enactment radical connected the ground”.
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed US aerial enactment was “an enactment and a possibility”, but, similar Trump, did not supply details.
• “The president has definitively stated US boots volition not beryllium connected the crushed successful Ukraine, but we tin surely assistance successful the coordination and possibly supply different means of information guarantees to our European allies,” Leavitt told a quality briefing.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte discussed information guarantees for Ukraine successful a telephone telephone connected Tuesday, the Turkish presidency said successful a statement.
• European Council President Antonio Costa said that the process to marque Ukraine a subordinate of the European Union needs to advance, and Europe has to beryllium portion of aboriginal bid negotiations alongside Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that India was profiteering connected its purchases of Russian oil. “This… Indian arbitrage – buying inexpensive Russian oil, reselling it arsenic merchandise has conscionable sprung during the warfare – which is unacceptable,” Bessent said.

• Putin discussed his caller gathering with Trump successful Alaska connected a telephone with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Kremlin said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies