Here are the key events on day 1,275 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Friday, August 22:Fighting
A Ukrainian combined missile and drone attack killed two people and injured 21 in the industrial city of Yenakiyeve, according to Denis Pushilin, the Russia-installed governor of the occupied areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The attack also damaged several residential buildings in the city and the nearby city of Horlivka.
Russia attacked a gas compressor station in eastern Ukraine that is important for getting fuel into storage facilities for the winter heating season, two industry sources told the Reuters news agency, as Russian attacks escalate despite a push from the United States for peace.
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov visited the “north” group of forces fighting in Ukraine, where he was briefed on the battlefield situation there, Zvezda, the official media outlet of the Ministry of Defence, reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that large-scale Russian attacks overnight in various parts of Ukraine showed Moscow was avoiding negotiations about ending the more than three-year-long war.
