Here are the key events on day 1,268 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Friday, August 15:Fighting
Ukrainian drones struck two Russian cities in attacks that injured at least 16 people, local authorities said.
Thirteen people were wounded, two seriously, when a drone struck an apartment building in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, and three civilians were wounded in the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military said its drones hit a Russian refinery in the Volgograd region overnight, causing huge fires.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said Russian forces captured the settlements of Shcherbynivka and Andriivka-Klevtsove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Ukrainian troops have stabilised an area of eastern Ukraine where Russian forces had made a sudden push this week to pierce Ukrainian defences, the Donetsk region’s Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
Ukraine said small groups of Russian infantry had thrust some 10 kilometres (six miles) towards its main defensive line near the town of Dobropillia, raising fears of a wider breakthrough on the front line that would further threaten key Ukrainian cities.
The Russian advance, coming as United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are due to meet in Alaska on Friday, appears aimed at pressuring Kyiv to give up land in return for peace with Russia, observers said.
Alaska summit
Trump said he believes Putin is ready to end his war in Ukraine, speaking on the eve of Friday’s summit betwee …
