Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,284

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, August 31:

Fighting

• Russia launched “massive” strikes against Ukraine overnight connected Saturday, with a full of 14 regions hit, according to Ukrainian officials.
• At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 30 others wounded successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, portion residential buildings were deed and scores of homes near without state oregon electricity. The cities of Dnipro and Pavlohrad successful the cardinal portion of Dnipropetrovsk besides came nether onslaught aboriginal connected Saturday, causing fires.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said it had downed 510 of 537 drones and 38 of 45 missiles launched by Russia successful the overnight attack.
• In Ukraine’s Kherson, a 74-year-old antheral was besides killed erstwhile Russian forces shelled the city, according to officials.
• The main of Russia’s wide staff, Valery Gerasimov, said that Russian forces are waging a nonstop violative on astir the full beforehand enactment successful Ukraine and person the “strategic initiative”.
• In a code to his deputies, Gerasimov besides said that Russian forces present power 99.7 percent of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, 79 percent of the Donetsk region, 74 percent of the Zaporizhia portion and 76 percent of the Kherson region. He went connected to assertion that Russian troops person astir wholly blockaded the metropolis of Kupiansk, successful the Kharkiv region, and power astir fractional of its area.
• But Ukrainian subject spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said that Kyiv’s forces had scored front-line successes, keeping Russian troops from seizing targets successful the Donetsk portion and halting further advances into the Dnipropetrovsk region. In 1 area, helium said, Kyiv’s troops had surrounded Russian units.
• Ukraine’s subject besides claimed attacks successful Russia, saying it had struck the Krasnodar and Syzran lipid refineries overnight connected Saturday, mounting disconnected fires astatine some facilities.
• Russia’s TASS authorities quality bureau besides said that Ukrainian shelling near much than 17,000 radical without powerfulness successful the borderline municipality of Rylsk successful Russia’s Kursk region.
• Kursk’s Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said that 201 bodies person been recovered successful the Russian portion since January 1, pursuing Ukraine’s invasion of the Russian region, and that 590 radical are inactive missing.

• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that its forces changeable down 233 Ukrainian drones, 1 guided weaponry and 4 missiles successful a 24-hour period, according to TASS.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been pushing for a acme with Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused the Kremlin of utilizing “the clip meant for preparing a leaders’-level [peace] gathering to organise caller monolithic attacks”, and called for much planetary sanctions connected Moscow and its backers.
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Zelenskyy implicit the telephone and reaffirmed his enactment for a peaceful colony successful Ukraine, saying that “India extends afloat enactment to each efforts” to reconstruct bid and stability, according to a connection from New Delhi.
• The European Union’s apical diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the bloc volition analyse however to usage frozen Russian assets to money Ukraine’s defence and reconstruction aft the war. But confiscating the assets – which are worthy 210 cardinal euros ($245.85bn) – present is not politically realistic, she said.
• Kallas’s comments travel aft immoderate EU countries, including Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, called for the assets to beryllium seized present and beryllium utilized to enactment Kyiv. But EU heavyweights France and Germany – on with Belgium, which holds astir of the assets – person rebuffed the idea.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz condemned Russia’s continuing attacks connected Ukraine, saying that diplomatic efforts successful caller weeks had been “answered with an adjacent much assertive attack by this authorities successful Moscow against the colonisation successful Ukraine”.
• “This volition besides not halt until we guarantee unneurotic that Russia, astatine slightest for economical reasons, and possibly besides for subject reasons … tin nary longer proceed this war,” Merz added successful comments astatine an lawsuit successful the German authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• United States President Donald Trump outlined however his argumentation connected Ukraine fits with his America First agenda, saying, “We’re not spending immoderate wealth successful the war”, describing this arsenic a “big difference” successful examination with the “hundreds of billions of dollars” the US was antecedently spending.
• He besides told The Daily Caller that the US volition not nonstop crushed troops to Ukraine and that the US present sells instrumentality to NATO. “We don’t merchantability it to Ukraine. We merchantability it to NATO. They wage for the equipment,” Trump said.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the US State Department had approved the merchantability of Patriot aerial defence systems for Ukraine for an estimated outgo of $179.1m and outer communications services worthy $150m.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies