Because the warfare enters its 896th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the scenario on Friday, August 9, 2024.
Preventing
- Fierce battles continued in Russia’s southwestern Kursk area, after some 1,000 Ukrainian troops launched a cross-border raid supported by tanks and armoured automobiles early on August 6.
- Officers mentioned about 3,000 folks had been evacuated from the world, which is beneath an area state of emergency.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its troops had been “persevering with to destroy” armed Ukrainian models and had been utilizing air strikes, rockets and artillery hearth to attempt to push them again. It mentioned it had rushed in reserves and was “thwarting makes an attempt to interrupt by way of” deeper into the Kursk area.
- Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak mentioned Russia’s “unequivocal aggression” was the explanation for any “escalation, shelling, navy actions, pressured evacuations, and destruction of regular life kinds, together with inside [Russia’s] personal territories like Kursk and Belgorod areas”.
- “Russia introduced the warfare to our land and may really feel what it has executed,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his night tackle to the nation, with out referring on to the offensive. He additionally praised the Ukrainian military for its capacity “to shock” and obtain outcomes, however once more didn’t explicitly reference the scenario in Kursk.
- A younger man and his six-year-old brother had been killed when a Russian guided bomb hit a schoolyard within the village of Mohrytsia in Ukraine’s Sumy area, simply throughout the border from Kursk, Volodymyr Artiukh, head of the Sumy area’s navy administration, informed nationwide TV. “Sumy area has by no means recognized such a big quantity per day,” he mentioned of the 56 guided bombs dropped over the earlier 24 hours.
- At the very least 4 folks had been killed and 11 injured in Russian assaults on Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area, in line with native governor Vadym Filashkin. Two folks had been killed when a residential district of Kostiantynivka, west of Bakhmut, was hit by shelling. Two extra had been killed and 11 injured in an assault on Selydove, a city to the southwest. The assault additionally broken a number of house blocks and administrative buildings.
- A 12-year-old boy was injured and two properties broken in Russian assaults on the central Dnipropetrovsk area, Governor Serhiy Lysak mentioned.
- One man was killed and one other injured in Ukrainian shelling of Shebekino in Russia’s Belgorod area, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor, wrote on his Telegram channel.
Politics and diplomacy
- Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy’s chief of employees, mentioned that whereas Moscow would possibly attend the subsequent Kyiv-led peace summit, it shouldn’t be handled as the beginning of negotiations with Russia.
- Ukraine’s International Ministry mentioned Niger’s choice to comply with Mali and lower ties with Kyiv was “regrettable”.
- A court docket in southern Russia sentenced Ukrainian Tetiana Klyuchko to 12 years in a penal colony after she was discovered responsible of collaborating in a “terrorist” group and trying to commit an “act of terror” in part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area occupied by Russia.
- A Moscow-controlled court docket in Ukraine’s japanese Luhansk area, which is nearly solely occupied by Russia, jailed Ukrainian Yuriy Galetsky for 13 years after discovering him responsible of espionage for sharing info on troop actions.
Weapons
- Ukraine gave an indication of a brand new robotic canine “BAD One” that it’d quickly use for extra harmful missions on the entrance line.
