Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,278

Here is however things basal connected Monday, August 25:

Fighting

• Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s Donetsk portion 23 times successful a day, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic successful Kostiantynivka, Governor Vadym Filashkin said successful a station connected Telegram connected Sunday.
• Russian forces launched shelling and drone attacks connected Ukraine’s Kherson region, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 2 others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote successful a station connected Telegram connected Sunday.
• A Russian drone onslaught killed a 47-year-old pistillate successful the Dubovykivska assemblage of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Governor Serhiy Lysak said successful a station connected Telegram.
• A pistillate and an 11-year-old kid were killed successful a Ukrainian onslaught connected a span successful a Russian-occupied country of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Pavel Filipchuk, the Russian-appointed caput of the Kakhovka district, wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• Ukrainian forces drove retired Russian troops from the villages of Mykhailivka, Zeleny Hay, and Volodymyrivka successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Oleksandr Syrskii, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s equipped forces, wrote connected Facebook.
• Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said connected Sunday that Russian forces had captured the colony of Filiya wrong Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
• In Russia, officials accused Ukraine of attacking the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), adjacent to the borderline with Ukraine, and causing a fire.
• The United Nations atomic watchdog, IAEA, said that its monitoring confirmed “normal radiation levels adjacent Kursk NPP” aft Russia said it reduced the reactor unit’s powerfulness “due to auxiliary transformer damage” and extinguished a fire, with nary injuries.
• Russian forces changeable down 95 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian regions overnight, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reported connected Sunday.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of war from each broadside connected Sunday aft mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Defence Ministry and the Ukrainian president said.
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed support for Ukraine’s calls for information guarantees arsenic portion of a imaginable bid woody with Russia, during a sojourn to Kyiv, wherever helium met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Sunday.
• Speaking astatine a quality conference, Carney said the guarantees could see planetary participation: “In Canada’s judgement, it is not realistic that the lone information warrant could beryllium the spot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces… that needs to beryllium buttressed and reinforced.”
• Carney joined Zelenskyy for a ceremonial successful cardinal Kyiv to people Ukrainian Independence Day, which was besides attended by the US peculiar envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
• Kellogg met Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who said they discussed the Ukraine-US minerals statement arsenic good arsenic information guarantees.
• United States Vice President JD Vance told the broadcaster NBC that Russia has made “significant concessions” towards a negotiated colony successful its warfare connected Ukraine.
• “They’ve recognised that they’re not going to beryllium capable to instal a puppet authorities successful Kyiv. That was, of course, a large request astatine the beginning. And importantly, they’ve acknowledged that determination is going to beryllium immoderate information warrant to the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Vance said.
• Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said successful an interrogation broadcast connected Sunday that a radical of nations, including UN Security Council members, should beryllium the guarantors of Ukraine’s security.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies