Russia-Ukraine struggle: Checklist of key occasions, day 1,276 | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Listed here are the important thing occasions on day 1,276 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, August 23:

Preventing

Russian troops have taken management of the settlements of Rusyn Yar, Volodymyrivka and Katerynivka within the Donetsk area in japanese Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated.
Russian oil provides to Hungary and Slovakia could possibly be suspended for a minimum of 5 days after a Ukrainian drone strike on a facility in Russia, Hungarian and Slovak officers stated. The assault by Ukraine marked the second time this week that Russian oil provides have been lower to each international locations.
An power facility at Unecha in Russia’s Bryansk area, by way of which the Europe-bound Druzhba oil pipeline runs, caught hearth on account of Ukrainian missile and drone assaults, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz stated, including that the fireplace had been extinguished.

Residents of the Russian-controlled metropolis of Donetsk wait in line to gather water delivered by a tank truck [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

United States President Donald Trump renewed a risk on Friday to impose sanctions on Russia if there is no such thing as a progress in direction of a peaceable settlement in Ukraine in two weeks, displaying frustration at Moscow every week after his heat assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov stated there is no such thing as a agenda for a possible summit between Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he accused of claiming “no to every part”.
Lavrov stated a gathering with Zelenskyy and a deal have been potential, supplied there was a correct agenda for such a session.
Zelenskyy has accused Russia of doing every part it might to ensure that a gathering between him and Putin doesn’t happen, and known as on Ukraine’s allies to use renewed sanctions on Moscow if it continues to point out no want to finish its invasion of his nation.

Putin has stated there was “mild on the finish of the tunnel” in Russia-US relations, and that the 2 international locations have been discussing joint initiatives within the Arctic and Alaska, signalling Russia’s optimism that it might mend relations with Washington and strike enterprise offers with Trump, regardless of an absence of progress in direction of ending its struggle on Ukraine.

Russian forces have performed an train within the Baltic Sea, together with drills to repel an underwater assault, the Defence Ministry in Moscow stated. It was the second time this month that Russia held naval workout routines with an antisubmarine element, after President Trump ordered two US nuclear submarines to reposition nearer to Russia.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs has warned neighbouring Belarus in opposition to staging “reckless provocations” throughout joint army drills with Russian forces in September.
Kyiv known as on its European companions to stay vigilant in the course of the joint Belarus-Russia “Zapad” army workout routines, and urged Belarusian authorities “to stay prudent, to not method the borders and to not provoke” Ukraine’s armed forces.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko dismissed as “full nonsense” the concept that Minsk would utilise the mobilisation of army forces in the course of the workout routines to assault Ukraine.

An Italian appeals courtroom has confirmed the arrest of a Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of coordinating assaults on three Nord Stream gasoline pipelines within the Baltic Sea in 2022. The suspect faces fees of collusion to trigger an explosion, anticonstitutional sabotage and destruction of vital constructions.
The AFP information company stories that the suspect within the assault on the Nord Stream underwater gasoline pipelines has refused to be extradited to Germany from Italy, the place he was arrested.