Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,282

Here is however things basal connected Friday, August 29:

Fighting

• Russian missiles and drones ripped done flat blocks successful the Ukrainian superior Kyiv connected Thursday, killing astatine slightest 23 people, including 4 children, authorities said, successful an onslaught the United States warned undermines bid efforts.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said Moscow fired astatine slightest 629 drones and missiles, making it the second-largest overnight barrage of the full war, according to Kyiv’s data.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that speech from residential buildings, the deadly Russian onslaught besides deed the Embassy of Azerbaijan, the European Union delegation, the British Council, and a Turkish endeavor successful the superior city.

• Ukraine’s subject struck a tiny missile-carrying Russian warship successful the Sea of Azov, causing damage, Ukrainian subject quality said. The vessel had the imaginable to motorboat missiles successful the Temryuk Bay country of the Azov Sea, Ukraine said.

• A occurrence broke retired astatine a portion of the Afipsky lipid refinery successful Russia’s confederate Krasnodar portion pursuing a Ukrainian drone attack, section authorities said. The grade of harm was not instantly wide astatine the refinery, which, unneurotic with the Krasnodar refinery, processed an estimated 7.2 cardinal metric tonnes of crude lipid successful 2024.

• Ukraine’s nationalist powerfulness grid relation said Russia’s overnight onslaught connected Thursday damaged vigor facilities successful respective regions, prompting section powerfulness cuts. The onslaught connected captious infrastructure successful cardinal Ukraine’s Vinnytsia portion chopped powerfulness to 60,000 consumers, determination authoritative Natalia Zabolotna said.

Politics and diplomacy

• President Zelenskyy denounced the Russian onslaught connected Kyiv, noting that it was Moscow’s reply to diplomatic efforts to extremity the war.
• US President Donald Trump said helium “was not happy” astir the Russian attack and planned to speech much astir the taxable later, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
• The Kremlin said the onslaught targeted Ukrainian subject sites, and insisted it was inactive funny successful diplomacy to extremity the conflict, but that its strikes would “continue”.
• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres besides condemned the onslaught and urged for a ceasefire.
• The EU and British authorities person summoned Russia’s ambassadors aft the overnight onslaught connected Kyiv damaged buildings of the EU’s ngo and the British Council.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “sabotaging hopes of peace”, portion German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said “Russia showed its existent face” with the latest strikes.
• French President Emmanuel Macron slammed Russian “terror and barbarism”, saying connected X: “This is Russia’s thought of peace.”
• EU main Ursula von der Leyen spoke with some Zelenskyy and Trump pursuing the attacks, insisting afterwards that “Putin indispensable travel to the negotiating table”.

Rescuers transportation a casualty astatine the tract of a gathering that was deed during Russian rocket and drone strikes connected Kyiv connected Thursday [Thomas Peter/Reuters]

• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said connected X that “we request to guarantee Ukraine has what it needs to support itself & unafraid a lasting peace”.

• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Russia’s onslaught demonstrates that it is not funny successful negotiating an extremity to the warfare successful Ukraine.

• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Kyiv had summoned Hungary’s ambassador implicit what helium called the Budapest government’s “discrimination” against taste Hungarians successful Ukraine.

• Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his state was issuing an introduction prohibition against the Ukrainian subject commander, Robert Brovdi, who carried retired “an onslaught connected Hungary’s sovereignty, endangering our vigor security”. Brovdi is an taste Hungarian who commands Ukraine’s drone forces.

Peace talks

• Zelenskyy told a radical of European leaders that it was important to nutrient a wide explanation of information guarantees for Ukraine arsenic portion of immoderate program to unafraid a bid colony with Russia.
• Zelenskyy besides said helium had discussed information guarantees for Ukraine with Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter hosted Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko successful Bern for a courtesy visit, the Swiss authorities said successful a statement. The talks focused connected the bid process and the reconstruction of Ukraine, it said.

Military aid

• The US Department of State has approved a imaginable merchantability of air-launched cruise missiles and related instrumentality to Ukraine for an estimated $825m, the Pentagon said. The 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) missiles person a scope of “several hundred” kilometres, according to a manufacturer.

Regional security

• Russia oregon its proxies person flown surveillance drones implicit routes that the US and its allies usage to transport subject supplies done eastbound Germany, according to a New York Times report. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed the report, describing it arsenic “another paper fake”.

Economy

• Russian lipid supplies done the Druzhba pipeline to Slovakia person resumed aft an outage caused past week by a Ukrainian onslaught successful Russia, Slovak Economy Minister Denisa Sakova said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies