On Monday, August 25, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- One person was killed in Kostiantynivka when Russian forces shelled the Donetsk region of Ukraine 23 times in a day, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin’s post on Telegram on Sunday.
- One person was killed and two others were injured in the Kherson region of Ukraine, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin’s post on Telegram on Sunday.
- In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian governor Serhiy Lysak reported the death of a 47-year-old woman in the Dubovykivska community in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
- According to Pavel Filipchuk, the newly appointed head of the Kakhovka district, a Ukrainian attack on a bridge in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine’s Kherson region killed a woman and an 11-year-old child.
- Oleksandr Syrskii, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, wrote on Facebook that Ukrainian forces had driven Russian troops out of the Donetsk region’s villages Mykhailivka, Zeleny Hay, and Volodymyrivka.
- Meanwhile, the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region was reported on Sunday by the Russian Ministry of Defense as evidence of Russian military capture of Filiya.
- In Russia, officials claimed that Ukraine had ignited the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is located close to Ukraine’s border, in response to the accusations.
- After Russia claimed it had reduced the reactor unit’s power “due to auxiliary transformer damage” and put out a fire, with no injuries, the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, announced that its monitoring had confirmed “normal radiation levels near Kursk NPP” and that it had detected “normal radiation levels near Kursk NPP.”
- Overnight, 95 Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian forces over Russian regions, according to a report released by the country’s state news agency, TASS.
diplomacy and politics
- Following mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian Defense Ministry and the Ukrainian president said 146 prisoners of war were exchanged between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday.
- During a visit to Kyiv on Sunday, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to express his support for Ukraine’s demands for security guarantees as part of a potential peace agreement with Russia.
- Carney said at a press conference that the guarantees could include international participation: “In Canada’s opinion, the strength of the Ukrainian Armed Forces… needs to be buttressed and reinforced.
- The US special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, and Carney and Zelenskyyyyi, both attended a ceremony to celebrate Ukrainian independence Day in central Kyiv.
- Yulia Svyrydenko, the prime minister of Ukraine, and Kellogg met with her, according to Kellogg. They discussed security guarantees as well as the Ukraine-US minerals agreement.
- Russia has made “significant concessions” toward a negotiated resolution of its conflict with Ukraine, according to US Vice President JD Vance.
- They have acknowledged that Kyiv will not be able to install a puppet regime. That was, of course, a significant demand at the beginning. Importantly, they have acknowledged that the territorial integrity of Ukraine will be subject to some security guarantees,” Vance said.
- Sergey Lavrov, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, stated in an interview that UN Security Council members should be the security guards for Ukraine.
Source: Aljazeera
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