Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 265 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here are the key events of day 1 265 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here’s how things are on Tuesday August 12:

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Two ambulance workers were killed in an attack on Ukrainian drones against Horlivka, in the Donetsk region occupied by Russia, said the administrator installed in Russia, Ivan Prikhodko, in an article on Telegram. The driver of the ambulance was also in serious condition, said Prikhodko.
The Russian forces have launched dozens of attacks against the Kherson Ukraine region, killing four people and injuring seven, said regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin in an article on Telegram. Two buildings and 30 houses have been damaged, he added.
On Sunday, Russian forces killed two civilians and injured 11 in the Donetsk region, said Governor Vadym Filashkin in a post on Telegram.
A Russian attack killed a man and injured two women in the village of Kupiansk-Vuzlovy, in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, said Governor Oleh Syniehubov in an article on Telegram.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces “used more than a thousand air bombs and nearly 1,400 attacks on Ukraine” last week. The latest figures show that Russia continues its intense bombardment of the country after having made AREcord 6,297 drone attacks on Ukraine in July.
The Russian forces occupied the village of Zatyshok, in the Ukrainian Donetsk region, reported Deepstate Deepstate, a Ukrainian battlefield surveillance group.

Russian Foreign Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Moscow hoped Reunion Between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, “the normalization of bilateral relations” between the two countries, reports the state agency managed by the state.
Addressing journalists on Monday on the next meeting on Monday, Trump once again declared that “there will be exchanges, there will be changes in the field” discussed, but that he will also say to Putin: “You must put an end to this war.”
When he was asked if Zelenskyy would be invited to talks, Trump said: “He was not part of it … I would say he could go there, but he went to many meetings. He has been there for three and a half years, and nothing happened.”
NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, told us on Sunday, the ABC broadcaster that “as regards all this question of territory, with regard to recognition, for example, perhaps in a future agreement that Russia de facto controls, in fact, part of the territory of Ukraine, it must be effective recognition, and not a political recognition of jure.”
The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the French, the United Kingdom and other European leaders, as well as the EU and NATO leaders, will discuss “other options to exert pressure on Russia”, and the “preparation of possible peace negotiations and related issues of territorial claims and security”, during virtual discussions on Wednesday.

The best EU diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said that the block worked on “more sanctions against Russia, military support more for Ukraine and more support for the budgetary needs of Ukraine and the membership process to join the EU”, after European Foreign Ministers have detained emergency discussions Monday before Trump-Putin’s meeting on Friday.
The European Commission said that it had received 1.6 billion euros ($ 1.86 billion) “by supposedly profits on the windfall” of interest on the “immobilized assets of the Russian central bank” in the first half of 2025, and that 95% of funds will be used to support Ukraine through the Ukraine loan cooperation mechanism (ULCM).

Trump will have discussions with European leaders and Zelenskyy on Wednesday, the European Commission’s press office at the kyiv Independent Media Outlet said.
Zelenskyy said he had made calls with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.