Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,280

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, August 27:

Fighting

• Russian attacks killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured six successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
• One idiosyncratic was killed and six others were injured successful a Russian onslaught connected a Ukrainian mine, according to the vigor institution DTEK, which said the onslaught damaged buildings and caused a powerfulness outage. “At that time, 146 miners were underground, and their ascent to the aboveground is ongoing,” the institution said.
• Ukrainian attacks killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 3 others successful the Russian-occupied Kherson portion of Ukraine, the Moscow-appointed Governor Vladimir Saldo said.
• Russian forces occupied Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka, successful Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, the Ukrainian battlefield monitoring radical DeepState has reported. Russian forces besides precocious adjacent the Ukrainian settlements of Shevchenko, Bila Hora, and Oleksandr-Shultyno, according to DeepState.
• Russian aerial defences changeable down 191 Ukrainian drones, six guided aerial bombs, and a long-range guided rocket successful 1 day, Russia’s authorities TASS quality bureau reports.
• Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 are present permitted to transverse Ukraine’s borders freely successful either absorption contempt the continuing imposition of martial law, which had antecedently prevented specified movement, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.
• Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office told the Ukrainska Pravda quality tract that much than 200,000 cases person been opened into soldiers who were absent without permission (AWOL), including immoderate 50,000 investigated for desertion.

Peace talks

• United States President Donald Trump said helium is prepared to enforce economical sanctions against Russia if its leader, Vladimir Putin, fails to hold to a bid woody successful Ukraine: “We privation to person an end. We person economical sanctions. I’m talking astir economical due to the fact that we’re not going to get into a satellite war.”
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged governments to enactment rapidly connected creating information guarantees for Ukraine successful the lawsuit of a bid woody with Russia, saying: “We indispensable intensify our enactment to the maximum and guarantee clarity and transparency successful everything related to information guarantees”.
• The US whitethorn supply quality assets and battlefield oversight to assistance Western powers successful the proviso of information guarantees for post-war Ukraine, arsenic good arsenic instrumentality portion successful a European-led aerial defence shield for the country, the Financial Times reported connected Tuesday, citing unnamed European and Ukrainian officials.
• Zelenskyy’s main of staff, Andriy Yermak, and Kyiv’s nationalist information assembly chief, Rustem Umerov, met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani successful Doha, wherever they had a “substantive conversation” connected topics including “the details of information guarantees for Ukraine”, Yermak wrote connected X.
• Exxon Mobil and the Russian vigor institution Rosneft secretly discussed resuming enactment connected the Sakhalin-1 lipid and state producing project, connected Russia’s Pacific coast, if Moscow and Washington springiness their support arsenic portion of a Ukraine bid process, The Wall Street Journal reported connected Tuesday, citing radical acquainted with the concealed discussions.

Politics and diplomacy

• Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s determination to veto a bill connected assistance to Ukrainian refugees successful his state could outgo Poland’s system 8 cardinal zlotys ($2.20bn), successful portion due to the fact that thousands of Ukrainians would suffer the close to ineligible employment, Poland’s Ministry of the Interior said.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies