Because the battle enters its 903rd day, listed below are the highest developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Friday, August 16, 2024.
Wrestle
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Ukraine had taken full management of the city of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk area, after sending 1000’s of troops throughout the border in a shock assault that started on August 6.
- Ukraine’s prime army commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, stated his forces had superior 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) previously 24 hours, transferring some 35 kilometers (22 miles) into Russia’s Kursk area for the reason that begin of the incursion. His forces now management 1,150 sq. kilometers (444 sq. miles) of Russian territory and 82 settlements, he added.
- The Russian Protection Ministry has not responded to the Ukrainian statements on Sudzha. The ministry had beforehand stated that Russian forces had blocked Ukrainian makes an attempt to grab a number of settlements within the area and had recaptured the village of Krupets.
- Kursk’s performing governor, Alexei Smirnov, has ordered the evacuation of the Glushkovo district, about 45 kilometers northwest of Sudzha. Authorities say greater than 120,000 residents of the Kursk area have already been evacuated as a result of preventing.
- Vasyl Maliuk, head of Ukraine’s Safety Service (SBU), stated Ukrainian particular forces captured a bunch of 102 Russian troopers on Wednesday within the Kursk area.
- Russia stated it will strengthen its border defences, enhance its command and management system and ship further forces because of the Kursk incursion.
- A minimum of two folks have been killed and 12 wounded in a Russian-led bomb assault within the Kharkiv area in northeastern Ukraine, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov stated on Telegram.
- Serhiy Tsehotskiy, an officer in Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade, instructed nationwide tv that there was no easing of Russian army strain within the partially occupied Donetsk area of japanese Ukraine. “The enemy, regardless of what is going on on Russian territory, continues… to maintain the majority of its troops on this route and attempt to obtain success,” Tsehotskiy stated.
- Russia’s Protection Ministry stated it captured the Donetsk village of Ivanivka, a front-line city about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the strategically essential metropolis of Pokrovsk in japanese Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s air pressure stated it shot down all 29 Russian drones focusing on eight Ukrainian areas and that the assault precipitated solely minor injury.
Politics and diplomacy
- A courtroom within the Russian metropolis of Yekaterinburg sentenced 32-year-old Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian citizen, to 12 years in jail after discovering her responsible of treason for donating $51.80 to a New York-based charity that helps youngsters and the aged in Ukraine. Karelina, who lives in Los Angeles, the place she made the donation, was arrested earlier this yr when she flew to Russia to go to her household.
- Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, has rejected solutions that kyiv was concerned within the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream fuel pipelines within the Baltic Sea. The Wall Avenue Journal reported late on Wednesday that Ukraine’s then-top army commander, Valerii Zaluzhny, oversaw the plan to explode the pipelines in September 2022. The report was printed after Germany issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian over the assaults.
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a key Russian ally, instructed Russian state tv that Moscow and kyiv ought to negotiate an finish to the battle. Lukashenko stated solely “high-ranking folks of American origin” wished the battle to proceed.
Arms
- The UK Ministry of Defence stated Ukraine was allowed to make use of British weapons in operations on Russian territory however restrictions remained on using long-range Storm Shadow missiles.
- Sky Information and different UK media reported that Challenger 2 tanks donated by the UK to Ukraine have been getting used within the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk.
