Russia’s War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,268 | Russia-Ukraine, news war star-news.press/wp

Here are the main events on the 1268th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Friday, August 15:

Fighting

• Local authorities said that Ukrainian drones hit two Russian cities in attacks at least 16 people.
• Thirteen people were seriously injured when a drone hit a residential building in the southern southern Rostov Dion city, and three civilians were injured in Beljorod near the border with Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian army said that its drones hit a Russian refinery in the Volgograd area overnight, causing huge fires.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Russian forces had acquired the Shcherbynivka and Andriivka-Klevtsove settlements in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.
• The governor of the Donetsk region, Fadd, Velchkin, said that the Ukrainian forces settled on the eastern Ukraine region, where Russian forces had suddenly push this week to defense the Ukrainian defenses.
• Ukraine said that small groups of Russian pedestrians have pushed about 10 kilometers (six miles) towards its main defensive line near the town of Dobubilia, which raised fears of a wider penetration on the confrontation line that would threaten the main Ukrainian cities.
• Observers said that the Russian progress, which comes as President of the United States Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, is scheduled to meet in Alaska on Friday, aims to pressure Kiev to abandon land for peace with Russia.

Alaska summit

• Trump said he believed that Putin is ready to end his war in Ukraine, speaking on the eve of Friday’s summit between the two leaders in the city of Anchorage, but it is possible that a peace agreement is likely to require at least a second meeting at least that included the leader of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelinski.
• White House spokeswoman Caroline Levit said that Trump and Putin will meet on Friday before holding a joint press conference.

• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Trump will take talks with Putin in the hope of fighting in Ukraine, but the war resolving will take longer.

• Putin said the United States is making “sincere efforts” to stop the war in Ukraine, and Moscow and Washington suggested that the nuclear weapons deal as part of a wider effort to strengthen peace.
• “In order to create long -term peace conditions between our countries, in Europe, and in the world as a whole,” Putin said, “In order to control strategic offensive weapons,” Putin said.
• The Kremlin warned that it would be a mistake to predict the outcome of the next summit, according to the state -run news agency. A spokesman for Carmelin Dmitry Peskov said there are no plans to sign any documents after the summit.
• The office of British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer said in a statement that the talks in Alaska between Trump and Putin offer a viable opportunity to make progress in ending the war in Ukraine.

Military aid

• Zelinski said he had a detailed discussion about the potential security guarantees of Ukraine during a “fruitful meeting” with Starmer in the United Kingdom.
• Zelenskyy said that KYIV has so far received $ 1.5 billion from its European allies to buy US weapons as part of a mechanism – gave the NATO list in Ukraine’s initiative – he said, “It really strengthens our defense.”
• French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trump expressed his willingness to European leaders on Wednesday that the United States and other allies should be part of giving Ukrainian security guarantees to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
• The USAID Agency (USAID) has not monitored 5,175 uses of the outskirts of the stars sent to Ukraine, where nearly half of the operational units in full or partial areas by Moscow ended, according to a report issued by the agency’s internal control.

War prisoners

• The United Arab Emirates has succeeded in a new exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. About 84 prisoners were launched from each side, which led to the exchange of the total number through Emirati mediation to 4,349.
• Ukrainian officials said that Ukraine brought 84 prisoners of war that included 51 civilians.

Regional developments

• The Russian parliament said that the Russian head of the Russian state, Duma Viacislav Vulodin, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an official visit to Pyongyang. Voluden, a close ally of Putin, conveyed greetings from the Russian leader and thanked Kim for North Korea’s support for the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

economy

• Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Sfridinko has ordered a review of all licenses to extract strategic minerals in the country, as part of a wider effort to help the war that was transferred the war and securing new investments under a metal deal with the United States.