Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,280

On Wednesday, August 27, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• In the Donetsk region of Ukraine, governor Vadym Filashkin reported that one person was killed and six others were hurt as a result of Russian attacks.
• According to the energy company DTEK, which claimed the attack damaged buildings and caused a power outage, one worker was killed and six others were hurt in a Russian attack on a Ukrainian mine. The company claimed that 146 miners were underground at the time, and that their ascent to the surface is still going on.
• According to the newly elected Governor Vladimir Saldo, one person was killed and three others were hurt in Ukrainian attacks in the Russian-occupied Kherson region of Ukraine.
• According to the Ukrainian battlefield monitoring organization DeepState, Russian forces have taken control of Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. According to DeepState, Russian forces also advanced close to Ukrainian settlements Shevchenko, Bila Hora, and Oleksandr-Shultyno.
• In a single day, Russian air defenses destroyed 191 Ukrainian drones, six guided aerial bombs, and a long-range guided missile, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS.
• Despite the ongoing implementation of martial law, which had previously prevented such movement, Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 22 are now able to cross Ukraine’s borders freely in either direction, according to Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
• More than 200 000 cases of soldiers who were absent without leave (AWOL), including some 50 000 who were detained, have been opened, according to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainska Pravda news site.

Peace talks

• Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said he wants an end to the conflict in Ukraine. “We want an end to it,” he said. Economic sanctions apply. Because there won’t be a world war, I’m talking about economic issues.
• In the event of a peace deal with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged governments to work quickly to improve security guarantees for Ukraine. He urged governments to “ensure the highest level of our work and ensure the highest level of transparency and clarity in everything related to security guarantees.”
• According to an unnamed source in the United States and an unnamed source in Ukraine, the US may provide intelligence and battlefield oversight to aid Western powers in providing security guarantees to post-war Ukraine and participate in a European-led air defense shield for the nation, according to the Financial Times on Tuesday.
• Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy’s staff, and Rustem Umerov, the head of Kyiv’s national security council, met in Doha for a “substantive conversation” on subjects like “the details of security guarantees for Ukraine,” Yermak wrote on X.
• According to a source with knowledge of the secret discussions between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft, the Russian energy company Rosneft and Moscow’s Pacific coast oil and gas production project would resume operations if Moscow and Washington give their consent as part of a peace agreement in Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

diplomacy and politics

Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of a bill granting Ukrainian refugees in his country could cost the country 8 billion zlotys ($2.20 billion), in part because thousands of Ukrainians would lose the right to work legally, according to the Polish Ministry of the Interior.