Russia-Ukraine struggle: Listing of key events, day 909

Right here is the difficulty on Thursday, August 22, 2024.

Struggling with

• Performing Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov mentioned one girl became killed and two other folks injured after their automobile became hit by an explosive dropped by a Ukrainian drone honest open air Sudzha.
• Ukraine mentioned it had destroyed several Russian pontoon crossings over the Seym River with US-made HIMARS rocket systems to defend its incursion into Russia’s Kursk space. Moscow mentioned its forces had halted Kyiv’s near into its territory.
• Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Russia’s Bryansk space, which borders Kursk and Ukraine, mentioned Russian forces pushed support a Ukrainian are attempting to enter that space. Bogomaz identified the Ukrainian forces as a “sabotage and reconnaissance team” nonetheless did now not specify if they were fragment of Ukraine’s military.
• Ukraine’s Extraordinary Workers mentioned its forces got right here underneath repeated Russian attacks around the frontline town of Pokrovsk in the east. The military mentioned there were 46 Russian attacks on the front one day of Wednesday and that 44 were repelled. Two were persevering with as of 19:00 GMT. The Extraordinary Workers mentioned 238 Russian infantrymen were killed or wounded in the identical space. It did now not interpret Ukrainian losses.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its forces had taken alter of the village of Zhelanne, which lies some 20km (12 miles) to the southeast of Pokrovsk.
• Ukrainian forces destroyed 50 out of 69 Russian assault drones launched across the country overnight. It did now not interpret on casualties or injury.
• In Russia, the Defence Ministry mentioned air defence shot down 11 drones over Moscow and its surrounding space. The assault became with out a doubt some of the largest on Moscow since the originate of the struggle in 2022.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Chinese Premier Li Qiang to the Kremlin and mentioned that Russia’s economic and alternate hyperlinks with Beijing were “yielding results”. Moscow has deepened ties with China amid heavy economic sanctions from many developed nations over its invasion of Ukraine.

• Ukraine’s parliament voted to be a half of the Global Criminal Court docket (ICC). Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned the switch would be particular efforts to salvage accountability for “all Russian atrocities” in its invasion would be “powerful extra efficient”.
• A Russian court jailed exiled opposition politician and frail member of parliament Dmitry Gudkov to eight years “in absentia” for criticism of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. Gudkov, who left Russia in 2021 and is a vocal Putin critic, mentioned the sentence became a “badge of honour”.
• Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees face eviction from shelters in Hungary after the authorities barred converse subsidies for those from areas of Ukraine now not regarded as tormented by the struggle. Budapest currently lists most attention-grabbing 13, or about half of Ukraine’s areas, as tormented by Russia’s invasion.
• Ukraine will need $12-15bn extra in international support next year than previously expected attributable to Russia’s invasion, Deputy Finance Minister Olha Zykova mentioned. Ukraine mentioned previously it would possibly maybe maybe maybe maybe need a total of $22.7bn in international support in 2025.
• Indian High Minister Narendra Modi mentioned he would “half views” on the aloof resolution of the struggle between Ukraine and Russia one day of his talk over with to Kyiv on Friday, extra than a month after he travelled to Moscow.
• The military regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have written to the United Countries Security Council asking it to “take acceptable actions” against Ukraine, which they accuse of supporting get up groups in northern Mali. Mali and Niger reduce support ties with Kyiv after a get up assault in northern Mali final month killed dozens of infantrymen, to boot to Russian Wagner mercenaries. Ukraine has rejected claims it became sharp.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s military mentioned it struck an S-300 anti-airplane missile machine primarily based utterly in Russia’s southern Rostov space attributable to such weapons were getting used to assault civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev mentioned air defence forces had destroyed a Ukraine-launched missile over his space.

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