Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,279

On Tuesday, August 26, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

In a Russian attack on Kupiansk city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, a woman was killed, and three others were hurt, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
In the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Governor Vadym Filashkin reported that one person was killed and three others were hurt by Russian attacks.
According to Governor Serhiy Lysak, Russian drones and artillery fire in the Ukrainian Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol caused injuries to a rescue worker and caused damage to a fire truck.
According to Russian state TASS news agency, a Ukrainian drone attack in the Luhansk region of Russia claimed the lives of one person and injured two others.
In a single day, Russian forces also detonated two missile launchers, four aerial bombs, and 151 Ukrainian drones, according to TASS.
The Russian-appointed governor, Vladimir Saldo, wrote in a post on Telegram that one person was killed and two others were hurt as a result of Ukrainian attacks on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian Kherson region.
The Zaporizke settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine was taken, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil stated on Monday while visiting the Ukrainian capital that while the discussions are in its early stages and must be shaped by Kyiv, but that Germany will contribute security guarantees to Ukraine along with its European partners.
US President Donald Trump responded to a question about why Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, appears reluctant to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy for peace talks.
Russia and Ukraine, to be honest, were the two that I thought would be the easiest. However, Trump claimed that there are some significant personality conflicts.
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, Putin spoke with Iranian leader Masoud Pezeshkian over the phone and had a conversation with Trump in Alaska.
The Kremlin stated support for the Kremlin’s ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the Ukrainian crisis peacefully.

Zelenskyy stated at a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store in Kyiv that Ukraine wants to “raise no less than $1 billion every month” to pay for the purchase of American weapons for the war.
According to Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill that would have allowed Ukrainian refugees to receive financial aid.
“The Starlink Internet that Poland provides to Ukraine, which is at war, is over.” On X, Gawkowski, a member of a different political party than Nawrocki, wrote that this also means that the Ukrainian administration’s data is no longer supported in a secure place.

Source: Aljazeera