Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 266 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here are the key events of day 1 266 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here’s how things are on Wednesday August 13:

Struggle

• A Russian attack killed a civilian and injured another person in Shakhove, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, said Governor Vadym Filashkin in a post on Telegram.
• The Russian forces bombed the city of Bilozerske, also in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, overnight, killing two people and wounding seven, including a 16 -year -old boy, said the regional prosecutor’s office.
• The AFP news agency reported that the Ukrainians evacuated Bilozerske while the Russian troops made gains in the region, while the Ukrainian battlefield surveillance group Deepstate reported that the Russian forces had advanced in Nikanorivka, Shcherbynivka and near Petrivka in the Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia wanted Ukraine to withdraw from the whole Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine as part of a ceasefire agreement, while Russian leader Vladimir Putin should meet US President Donald Trump to talk about war In Alaska Friday.
• The Ukrainian general staff said that his forces were involved in “difficult” fights near Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in Donetsk, and that reinforcements were to block the attacks by small groups of Russian troops.
• Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service said Ukrainian drones had struck a long Russian drone storage warehouse in the Kzyl-Yul colony in the Russian Tatarstan Republic.
• A person died after being injured in an attack by Ukrainian drone on Monday in Arzamas, in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia, according to the Russia news agency, which quoted the regional governor.

• The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, said that the IAEA staff observed that smoke escaped an administrative building at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, but that there was “no increase in radiation, no impact on nuclear security reported and no victim”.

• The Russian forces shot down six guided bombs and 179 drones in 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

Ceasefire

• Zelenskyy said that the summit Between Trump and Putin in Alaska on Friday is a “personal victory” for Putin, “because he meets on American territory”, and because he “has somehow postponed sanctions”.
• Zelenskyy also said that he had received a “first signal” from the American envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia could accept a cease-fire, without providing more details.
• The spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said that the meeting of the capital of Alaska, anchorage, would be “a listening exercise for the president”, and that the goal was to “leave with a better understanding of the way in which we can put an end to this war”.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov phone Tuesday. The US State Department said that “the two parties have confirmed their commitment to ensuring a successful event” in Alaska.

Politics and diplomacy

• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Putin had spoken with North Korean leader Kim Jong one about his next meeting with Trump. Putin also expressed his appreciation for the support of North Korea in the “liberation of the Kursk region of the invasive forces of the kyiv regime,” said the ministry in an article on Telegram.
• Zelenskyy held calls with the president of Turkiye, the Emir of Qatar, the president of Romania and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands on Tuesday.