Here are the key events on day 1,265 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Tuesday, August 12:Fighting
Two ambulance workers were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Horlivka, in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, Russian-installed administrator Ivan Prikhodko said in a post on Telegram. The driver of the ambulance was also in a serious condition, Prikhodko said.
Russian forces launched dozens of attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing four people and injuring seven, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in a post on Telegram. Two apartment buildings and 30 houses were damaged, he added.
Russian forces killed two civilians and injured 11 in the Donetsk region on Sunday, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram.
A Russian attack killed a man and injured two women in the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovy, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian forces “used more than a thousand aerial bombs and nearly 1,400 attack drones against Ukraine” in the past week. The latest figures show that Russia is continuing its intense bombardment of the country after carrying out a record 6,297 drone attacks on Ukraine in July.
Russian forces occupied the village of Zatyshok, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Ukrainian battlefield monitoring group DeepState reported.
Ukrainian rescuers and policemen work at the site of the Russian strike on a bus station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on August 10, 2025 [Oleg Movchaniuk/EPA]Ceasefire t …
