Russia-Ukraine war: list of key events, day 9/12 | Russia-Ukraine war news

Below are the major developments as the war enters its 912th day.

Here is the situation on Sunday, August 25, 2024.

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Russia launched several missiles and drones overnight at parts of northern and eastern Ukraine, the Kiev military said Sunday, adding that its defense systems destroyed most of the weapons before they could reach their targets. The strikes targeted Ukraine’s Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, the Ukrainian Air Force said on the messaging app Telegram.
Five civilians were killed and 12 others wounded after Ukraine shelled the town of Rakitnoye in Russia’s Belgorod region, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday. He added that three children were among the victims.
Ukraine said Sunday that an overnight Russian attack on a hotel in the eastern city of Kramatorsk left two journalists wounded and a third missing. Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk regional government, said the journalists were British, American and Ukrainian citizens and that a search operation was underway.
On Saturday, Ukraine reported that five people were killed in a Russian attack on a residential area in the eastern town of Kostyantynivka, near the front line in the Donetsk region.
Five drones were shot down in the Voronezh region in southwestern Russia, bordering Ukraine, and two people were injured, regional governor Aleksandr Gusev said. According to local media, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate also claimed to have blown up a warehouse with 5,000 tons of ammunition in the same region.

China’s Commerce Ministry said on Sunday it strongly opposed a U.S. decision to add several Chinese entities to its export control list over issues related to Russia and Ukraine. On Friday, the U.S. added 105 Russian and Chinese companies to a trade restriction list over their alleged support for the Russian military.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 115 prisoners of war on Saturday, both countries confirmed, with the United Arab Emirates acting as intermediary between them.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday it has sent more artillery to the Kursk region, where Russian forces are battling thousands of Ukrainian troops who crossed the Russian border on Aug. 6. “Additional missiles and artillery weapons have been supplied to the group,” the ministry said in a statement about supplies to troops in Russian border regions.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that a newly developed Ukrainian “unmanned missile” called Palianytsia would bring war back to Russia, while calling Russia’s Vladimir Putin an “old sick man of Red Square.” Zelenskyy spoke in a video address for Independence Day, in which he also said Russia wanted to “destroy” Ukraine, but war has “returned home.”
Ukraine wants permission from its Western allies to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles to destroy targets inside Russia, believing this could force Moscow to end the fighting, The Guardian reported.