Here are the key events on day 1,281 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 28:Fighting
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has come under a large-scale night-time attack by Russia, officials said early on Thursday, with at least four killed, 24 injured and damage to multiple buildings in several districts of the city, including a kindergarten.
Russian troops have entered the villages of Novoheorhiivka and Zaporizke in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, a major Ukrainian industrial centre next to the Donetsk region, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reported, citing a local commander.
Strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left more than 100,000 households without power, officials in Kyiv said.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said Russian attacks were launched against energy and gas transport infrastructure facilities in six regions, in what it called a “deliberate policy of destroying Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure on the eve of the heating season”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 100,000 houses were cut off from electricity in the Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv regions following Russian attacks.
A farm in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region was damaged as a result of heavy shelling, killing two employees, and an 81-year-old woman died in an overnight attack on the regional capital, local officials said.
Ukraine is looking at how to share battlefield data with its allies, said Mykhailo Fedorov, who heads Ukraine’s digitalisation ministry, adding, “The data we have is priceless for any country.”
Fedorov also said he was confident of a solution to continue Poland’s funding of 30,000 Starlink internet systems for Uk …
