Russia-Ukraine conflict: Record of key occasions, day 916 | Russia-Ukraine conflict Information

Because the conflict enters its 916th day, these are the primary developments.

Right here is the scenario on Thursday, August 29, 2024.

Combating

• No less than 14 individuals had been injured and plenty of others had been killed after a Russian-guided bomb assault on the japanese city of Kupiansk. Talking in his night tackle, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned there have been fatalities, however didn’t give a quantity. The assault additionally broken town corridor constructing.
• No less than eight individuals had been injured after a Russian missile struck Zelenskyy’s residence metropolis of Kryvyi Rih as residents noticed an official day of mourning for 4 individuals killed in a Russian assault the day before today on a metropolis lodge.
• Ukraine’s prosecutor common’s workplace mentioned a household of 4 was killed when their home within the village of Izmailivka was hit by a Russian-guided bomb. Izmailivka, with a pre-war inhabitants of about 200 individuals, is close to the entrance line within the east the place Russia has been making an attempt to seize the strategic hub of Pokrovsk.
• Donetsk regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, mentioned two individuals had been killed in separate assaults close to Chasiv Yar that broken greater than a dozen properties.
• The state-run TASS information company, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence, mentioned its forces had taken management of the settlement of Komyshivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk area.
• Ukraine’s Basic Employees mentioned in its Wednesday replace that there was “fierce preventing” in plenty of villages near Pokrovsk. “Thus far, the enemy has made 38 makes an attempt to storm Ukrainian positions. Fight remains to be ongoing in 14 places,” the Basic Employees mentioned.
• Deputy CIA Director David Cohen mentioned Russian President Vladimir Putin would mount a counteroffensive to try to retake territory within the Kursk area captured by Ukrainian troops however would encounter “a troublesome combat”. Ukraine launched a shock assault on the Russian area on August 6 and has claimed to have taken some 100 settlements.
• Rosgvardiya, Russia’s Nationwide Guard, mentioned in an announcement that its sappers had discovered a shell from what it claimed was a US-supplied HIMARS a number of launch rocket system  5km (3 miles) from Kursk’s nuclear energy plant, in addition to a rocket fragment, which it mentioned was filled with 180 unexploded munitions. Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of making an attempt to assault the plant. There was no speedy remark from Ukraine on the declare.
• Vasily Golubev, the regional governor of Russia’s southern area of Rostov, mentioned a Ukrainian drone assault set an oil depot on hearth within the Kamensky district. No casualties had been reported.
• A Ukrainian drone assault additionally began a fireplace at an oil depot within the Russian metropolis of Kotelnich within the northern Kirov area, some 1,100km (685 miles) from the Ukrainian border

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine’s Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned the most important drawback confronted by Kyiv was that its allies had been afraid of approving new insurance policies to help Ukraine out of worry of escalation. Kuleba’s feedback got here a day after Russia’s international minister mentioned the West was “enjoying with hearth” by contemplating permitting Kyiv to strike deep into Russia and warned of the dangers of World Struggle III.
• NATO members reaffirmed their dedication to additional strengthen Ukraine’s defences at a gathering of the NATO-Ukraine Council. “We should proceed to supply Ukraine with the gear and munitions it must defend itself in opposition to Russia’s invasion. That is important for Ukraine’s means to remain within the combat,” mentioned Secretary-Basic Jens Stoltenberg.
• Russia’s Overseas Ministry banned 92 US residents – together with journalists, legal professionals and the heads of what it mentioned had been key military-industrial corporations from the nation. The record, revealed on Telegram, consists of 14 Wall Avenue Journal staff, 5 senior journalists from The New York Occasions and 4 from The Washington Submit.
• A Russian navy court docket jailed 39-year-old engineer Artyom Lozovoi for 18 years over a foiled try to blow up a navy recruitment workplace, the TASS state information company reported. Lozovoi was discovered responsible of a number of expenses, together with treason.
• Anastasia Zibrova, a canine handler from the Moscow area, was sentenced to 5 years in a penal colony for criticising Russia’s assault on a Kramatorsk railway station that killed 61 individuals in April 2022, in line with the Russian authorized assist group and monitor OVD-Information.
• In a 3rd case, a Russian navy court docket sentenced Ukrainian Andriy Martsenyuk to 4 and a half years in jail for making ready to set hearth to an area navy police station, Interfax reported, citing the native department of the FSB safety service.