Here are the key events on day 1,273 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 20:Fighting
Russian authorities have returned the remains of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Monday, according to The Kyiv Independent news outlet.
Russia’s state-run TASS news agency confirmed that Russia returned the bodies of 1,000 soldiers, adding that Ukraine returned the bodies of 19 Russian soldiers.
Separately, TASS reported that about 1,370 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a single day, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence. Al Jazeera could not verify this claim independently.
Russian forces dropped 250kg (550 lbs) bombs on the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Serhii Horbunov, the head of the Kostiantynivka City Military Administration, wrote on Facebook on Monday. At least two people were injured, and apartments and an education building were damaged, Horbunov said.
A Russian drone attack on an ambulance injured two emergency workers in the Kupiansk district of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, regional police said in a post on Telegram.
TASS reports that a Ukrainian drone attack caused a power outage in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, according to the governor of Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky.
The attack did not affect the operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, TASS later reported.
Local officials in the front-line city of Kamianka-Dniprovska in Russian-occupied Zaporizhia reported “massive” shelling f …
