Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 913 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

These are the most important developments on the 913th day of the war.

Here is the situation on Monday, August 26, 2024.

Battle

At least 18 people were killed and 37 injured in Russian missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk on Sunday.
Reuters news agency reported that its security adviser Ryan Evans was killed and two Reuters journalists were injured, one of them seriously, in a Russian attack on a hotel in Kramatorsk, about 20 kilometers from the front line in eastern Ukraine, on Saturday evening. Three other members of the team escaped unhurt.
Russian authorities said six civilians were killed in Ukrainian attacks on Russian border areas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had advanced up to three kilometers into Russia’s Kursk region and taken control of two more settlements there.
Ukraine called on Belarus to withdraw Belarusian forces and equipment, including tanks and artillery, stationed in the Gomel region on the shared border. The Foreign Ministry warned Belarus against making “tragic mistakes” under pressure from Moscow.

Zelensky said negotiations with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland on a second peace summit would continue. Zelensky also said he had told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Kyiv, that he would support India hosting the event.
Pope Francis condemned the Ukrainian government’s move to ban a Russian-affiliated branch of the country’s Orthodox Church. “Do not touch the churches,” the pope said in his weekly prayers, a day after Zelensky signed the ban.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it had sent more missiles and artillery to the Kursk region, where thousands of Ukrainian soldiers advanced across the Russian border on August 6.