As the war enters its 898th day, here are the top developments.
Here is the situation on Sunday, August 11, 2024.
Struggle
- Explosions occurred in central and eastern kyiv on Saturday evening, according to the AFP news agency, after the Ukrainian air force said Russian missiles were heading towards the city.
- A 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son were killed in the attack overnight in the Brovary district near the Ukrainian capital, emergency services said. Three other people, including a child, were seriously injured.
- Moscow's Defense Ministry says its forces destroyed 14 drones launched from Ukraine and four missiles over Kursk, the Russian region where Ukrainian troops are trying to gain a foothold after last week's cross-border incursion.
- More than 76,000 people have been evacuated from the border region. In an effort to contain the incursion, Russia has launched “anti-terrorist operations” in the nearby regions of Belgorod and Bryansk, as well as in Kursk.
- Ukraine has announced that it has evacuated 20,000 people from the Sumy region, across the border from Kursk, as fighting intensifies in the area.
Politics and diplomacy
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged for the first time that Ukrainian forces have launched an offensive in Kursk. According to him, kyiv is “showing that it can really restore justice and exert the necessary pressure on the aggressor.”
- Zelenskyy suggested his country was moving toward effectively banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a disputed branch of the Church that has ties to Moscow.
- Belarus has sent more troops to reinforce its border with Ukraine, saying Ukrainian drones violated its airspace during the Kursk raid.
