Russia War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,273 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Here are the main events of the day 1,273 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 20:

Fighting

• The Coordination headquarters in Ukraine for the treatment of war prisoners said on Monday that the Russian authorities had returned the remains of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
• Russia’s Tass agency confirmed that Russia has returned to the bodies of 1,000 soldiers, adding that Ukraine restored the bodies of 19 Russian soldiers.
• Separately, Tass said that about 1370 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in one day, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. Al -Jazeera could not independently verify this claim.
• Russian channels wrote 250 kg (550 pounds) in the city of Costantenevka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and Serhi Horbonov, head of the military administration of Costantinvka, wrote on Facebook on Monday. Horbonov said at least two people were injured, apartments and an educational building.
• Regional police in a telegram publication said a Russian drone attack on an ambulance was wounded by emergency workers in the Kupiansk area in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine.
• Tass said that the Ukrainian drone attack caused the power outage in the Zaporesia region of Ukraine, according to the ruler of Zaporizhia, which is occupied by Russian, Yivgene Baltisky.
• The attack did not affect the operation of the Zaporizhzia nuclear plant, according to Tass later.
• Local officials in Kamianka-Dniprovska have informed the front lines of the “huge” bombing of the Ukrainian forces, causing at least six explosions and the destruction of the hospital, according to the Tass report did not mention the losses.
• Tass said that Vitaly Milonov’s brother, a representative in Douma Douma in Russia, the House of Representatives in Parliament, died after a “military action” in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. The brother of the legislator was a volunteer in the Russian army intelligence when he was injured, according to TASS reports.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Sfridinko wrote in a post on the application of the tractor correspondence that 52,000 people have been evacuated from the regions of Donetsk and Denipopterrovsk in Ukraine in recent months due to fighting.

peace talks

• Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski “are about to put it”. Trump made a comment on a radio program a day after He met with Zelenskyy And many European leaders in the White House.
• The country’s foreign minister said that Switzerland will be ready to host Putin’s talks for peace, despite the current arrest warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court, and the country’s foreign minister said, Ignazio Cassis.
• Trump provided details to Fox News about the nature of participation in the potential United States in Ukraine security guarantees, saying that American support will be likely “by air”, while European countries “are ready to put people on the ground.”
• White House press secretary Caroline Levit confirmed that US air support was “option and possibility”, but, like Trump, did not provide details.
• “The president categorically stated that US shoes will not be on the ground in Ukraine, but we can definitely help coordinate and may provide other security means for our European allies,” Levitte told Ikhlas newspaper.
• The Turkish presidency said in a statement that Turkish President Recep Tipib Erdogan and the Secretary -General of NATO NATO Mark Retti discussed security guarantees for Ukraine in a phone call on Tuesday.
• European Council President Antonio Costa said that the process of making Ukraine a member of the European Union needs progress, and Europe must be part of future peace negotiations alongside Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

• US Treasury Secretary Scott Payette told CNBC that India was benefiting from its purchases of Russian oil. “This … Indian arbitration – the purchase of cheap Russian oil, and its reselling as a producer has just spread during the war – which is unacceptable,” Pesen said.

• The Kremlin said that Putin discussed his last meeting with Trump in Alaska in an invitation with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.