Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 898 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

These are the key developments as the war enters its 898th day.

Here is the situation on Sunday, August 11, 2024.

Battle

According to the AFP news agency, explosions occurred in central and eastern Kyiv on Saturday night after the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian missiles were heading towards the city.
A 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son were killed in the nighttime attack in the Brovary district near the Ukrainian capital, emergency services said. Three other people, including a child, were seriously injured.
The Defense Ministry in Moscow said its forces had destroyed 14 drones and four missiles fired from Ukraine over Kursk, the Russian region where Ukrainian troops are trying to gain a foothold following last week’s cross-border incursion.
More than 76,000 people have been evacuated from the border region. Russia is trying to contain the incursion and has launched “anti-terrorist operations” in the nearby regions of Belgorod and Bryansk, as well as in Kursk.
Ukraine said it had evacuated 20,000 people amid increasing fighting in the Sumy region, which lies across the border from Kursk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed for the first time that Ukrainian forces had launched an offensive in Kursk. He said Kyiv “proves that it is actually capable of restoring justice and exerting the necessary pressure on the aggressor.”
Zelensky said his country was heading toward a de facto ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a controversial branch of the church with ties to Moscow.
Belarus has sent additional troops to reinforce its border with Ukraine and said Ukrainian drones violated its airspace when they invaded Kursk.