Here is how things stand on Monday, August 25:Fighting
Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s Donetsk region 23 times in a day, killing one person in Kostiantynivka, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram on Sunday.
Russian forces launched shelling and drone attacks on Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing one person and injuring two others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday.
A Russian drone attack killed a 47-year-old woman in the Dubovykivska community of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Governor Serhiy Lysak said in a post on Telegram.
A woman and an 11-year-old child were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a bridge in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Pavel Filipchuk, the Russian-appointed head of the Kakhovka district, wrote in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian forces drove out Russian troops from the villages of Mykhailivka, Zeleny Hay, and Volodymyrivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Oleksandr Syrskii, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, wrote on Facebook.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that Russian forces had captured the village of Filiya inside Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Russia, officials accused Ukraine of attacking the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), close to the border with Ukraine, and causing a fire.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog, IAEA, said that its monitoring confirmed “normal radiation levels near Kursk NPP” after Russia said it reduced the reactor unit’s power “due to auxiliary transformer damage” and extinguished a fire, with no injuries. …
