As the war enters its 892nd day, here are the key developments.
Here is the situation on Monday, August 5, 2024.
Struggle
- Ukraine announced the mandatory evacuation of children and their guardians from areas in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia has been claiming to have made progress. Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said 744 children and their families would leave Novohrodivka, about 20 kilometers from the village of Novoselivka Persha, which the Russian Defense Ministry said it had captured just hours before the announcement.
- Ukrainian pilots have begun using F-16 jets in operations inside the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced during his visit to an air base under tight security at an undisclosed location. Two of the planes were behind him on the ground as he spoke and two others were hovering overhead.
- Ukraine's military said it sank a Russian Kilo-class submarine and attacked an anti-missile system set up to protect the strategic Kerch bridge in the Moscow-occupied Crimean peninsula over the weekend.
Politics and diplomacy
- Mali said it was immediately cutting diplomatic ties with Ukraine after Andriy Yusov, spokesman for Ukraine's military intelligence agency (GUR), said Tuareg separatist rebels in northern Mali had received the “necessary” information to carry out an attack last month on Malian soldiers and mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group that killed 131 fighters.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is on his fourth diplomatic tour of Africa in two years, seeking to drum up support for kyiv's efforts to expel Russian forces from its territory. Kuleba will be in Africa until August 8 and will visit Malawi, Zambia and Mauritius.
- Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh won her country's first individual gold medal at the Paris Olympics by winning the high jump, leaping 2 metres in front of an adoring crowd at the Stade de France. Ukraine also took bronze in the event, with Iryna Gerashchenko sharing the medal with Australia's Eleanor Patterson.
