Russia War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,276 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Here are the main events of the day 1,276 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Saturday, August 23:

Fighting

• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Russian forces took control of the settlements of Rossin Yar, Voludmrevka and Catherinevka in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

• Hungarian and Slovak officials said that the Russian oil supplies for Hungary and Slovakia can be suspended for at least five days after a Ukrainian drone strike on a facility in Russia. The attack by Ukraine is the second time this week that Russian oil supplies were cut on both countries.

• Regional ruler Alexander Bogomaz said that the Unecha Energy facility in the Russian region of Biannk, through which it runs the Druzhba Oil BILD pipeline, adding that the fire had been extinguished.

peace talks

• US President Donald Trump renewed a threat on Friday to impose sanctions on Russia if there was no progress towards a peaceful settlement in Ukraine within two weeks, and frustration in Moscow showed a week after warmth A meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin In Alaska.

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that there is no possible summit agenda between Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, President Folodimir Zellinski, who accused him of saying, “No to everything.”

• Lavrov said that a meeting with Zelenskyy and an deal was possible, provided that there was a suitable agenda for such a session.

• Zelinski accused Russia of doing everything in its power to ensure that a meeting between him and Putin did not hold, and called on Ukraine allies to implement renewed sanctions on Moscow if it continues to show any desire to end its invasion to his country.

Politics and diplomacy

• Putin said that there was “light at the end of the tunnel” in relations between Russia and the United States, and that the two countries were discussing joint projects in the Arctic and Alaska, indicating Russia’s optimism that he could reform relations with Washington and strike commercial deals with Trump, although it was not progressing towards ending its war on Ukreen.

Regional security

• The Moscow Ministry of Defense said that the Russian forces had an exercise in the Baltic Sea, including training to repel an underwater attack. This was the second time this month that Russia has held naval exercises with an anti -ravage component, after President Trump ordered Two American divers To re -put closer to Russia.
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the neighboring Ukraine warned against the organization of “reckless provocations” during the joint military exercises with the Russian forces in September.
• Kiev called on her European partners to remain vigilant during the joint military exercises of Belarus, Russia, “Zabad”, and urged the Belarusian authorities to “remain wise, not to approach the borders and not to raise” the armed forces in Ukraine.
• The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, rejected it as “full nonsense” the idea that Minsk will use mobilization of military forces during exercises to attack Ukraine.

Nord

• An Italian Court of Appeal confirmed the arrest of a Ukrainian man suspected of Germany to coordinate attacks on three gas pipelines in the north in the Baltic Sea in 2022. The suspect faces accusations of complicity of causing an explosion, anti -firm sabotage and destroying important structures.

• News Agency told AFP that the suspect in the attack on underwater gas pipelines had refused to hand him over to Germany from Italy, where he was arrested.