Because the conflict enters its 914th day, listed below are the highest developments.
Right here is the scenario on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.
Battle
- A minimum of seven individuals have been killed and 47 wounded, together with 4 kids, when Russia attacked Ukraine’s vitality infrastructure in 15 areas with waves of drones and missiles, inflicting extreme harm and disrupting provides. Russia confirmed the strikes, which it stated have been aimed toward services supporting the military-industrial advanced.
- Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of Ukraine’s Air Power, stated the nation’s forces shot down 102 of the 127 missiles and 99 of the 109 drones that Russia launched. He referred to as the assault “essentially the most large” since Russia started its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
- Poland stated an object, presumably a drone, had entered its airspace in the course of the Russian bombing and will have landed in Polish territory.
- US President Joe Biden condemned what he referred to as a “surprising assault” and reiterated his nation’s “unwavering” assist for kyiv.
- A minimum of one individual was killed and 4 wounded after a Russian missile hit a constructing within the central Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, stated Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the army administration of Kryvyi Rih. 5 individuals are believed to be nonetheless trapped within the rubble.
- Reuters information company reported that its journalist Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey was in crucial situation in hospital after a missile hit a lodge in Kramatorsk the place he was staying with a six-person Reuters crew. Safety adviser Ryan Evans was additionally killed within the assault, whereas one other journalist, Daniel Peleschuk, was handled for his accidents in hospital and launched. The opposite three are secure.
- Russia stated it had attacked Ukrainian forces in a minimum of 12 completely different areas in its Kursk area with air, artillery and infantry strikes. Moscow stated it additionally repelled assaults in seven extra areas in Kursk, the place Kiev launched a shock cross-border assault on August 6. It added that it had additionally attacked Ukrainian forces in 16 different areas within the neighbouring Sumy area.
- The director common of the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, stated he would personally lead an inspection mission to Russia’s Kursk nuclear energy plant throughout a go to on Tuesday, noting the “grave scenario.”
- Native authorities in Russia’s Saratov area reported that 4 individuals have been injured in a Ukrainian drone assault within the cities of Saratov and Engels. Engels is residence to a army airfield that Ukraine has beforehand attacked.
Politics and diplomacy
- Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the conflict in Ukraine, the White Home stated in an announcement. Modi visited kyiv final week, the primary go to by an Indian chief to Ukraine for the reason that nation gained independence in 1991. Modi posted on-line that he “reiterated India’s full assist for the early return of peace and stability.”
- The trial of Laurent Vinatier, a French citizen accused of illegally gathering info on army issues, will start on September 3, a Russian courtroom introduced. If convicted, Vinatier might be sentenced to as much as 5 years in jail. The researcher, who labored for the Geneva-based NGO Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, was arrested in June.
- Russia was the one member of the UN Safety Council to not attend an off-the-cuff assembly in Switzerland, throughout which the 14 members current reiterated their dedication to worldwide humanitarian legislation. The Russian envoy in New York referred to as the assembly a “waste of time.”
Arms
- Ukraine claims to have developed a brand new long-range weapon, the Palianytsia, to strike deep into Russia. Defence Minister Rustem Umerov stated the weapon would offer “solutions” to a wave of Russian bombings.
