Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,279

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, August 26:

Fighting

• An 82-year-old pistillate was killed and 3 radical were injured successful a Russian onslaught connected Kupiansk city, successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
• Russian attacks killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 3 others successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
• Russian drones and artillery occurrence injured a rescue idiosyncratic and damaged a occurrence motortruck successful the Nikopol portion of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Governor Serhiy Lysak.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 2 others successful the Russian-occupied Ukrainian portion of Luhansk, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reported.
• TASS besides reported that Russian forces changeable down 151 Ukrainian drones and 4 aerial bombs, and destroyed 2 rocket launchers, successful 1 day.
• One idiosyncratic was killed and 2 others injured successful Ukrainian attacks connected the Russian-occupied Ukrainian Kherson region, the Russian-appointed governor, Vladimir Saldo, wrote successful a station connected Telegram.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces captured the colony of Zaporizke successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.

Peace talks

• Germany volition instrumentality portion successful providing information guarantees for Ukraine alongside European partners, but the talks are astatine an aboriginal signifier and indispensable beryllium shaped by Kyiv, German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said connected Monday, portion visiting the Ukrainian capital.
• Asked wherefore Russia President Vladimir Putin appears reluctant to beryllium down for bid talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump told reporters it is “because helium doesn’t similar him”.
• “The 1 I thought would beryllium the easiest, frankly, was Russia and Ukraine. But it turns retired determination are immoderate large property conflicts,” Trump said.
• Putin spoke connected the telephone with Iranian person Masoud Pezeshkian and discussed his gathering with Trump successful Alaska, the Kremlin property work said, according to the RIA Novosti quality agency.
• “Masoud Pezeshkian expressed enactment for the ongoing diplomatic efforts aimed astatine a peaceful solution of the Ukrainian crisis,” the Kremlin said.

Ukraine aid

• Speaking astatine a quality league with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store successful Kyiv, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine aims to rise “no little than $1bn each month”, towards buying weapons from the United States to beryllium utilized successful the war.
• Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill that would person extended fiscal enactment to Ukrainian refugees, perchance besides jeopardising Ukraine’s usage of Starlink, according to Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski.
• “This is the extremity of the Starlink Internet, which Poland provides to Ukraine, which is waging war. This is besides the extremity of enactment for storing Ukrainian medication information successful a harmless place,” Gawkowski, who is from a antithetic governmental enactment than Nawrocki, wrote connected X. Russia launched a full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies