As thw conflict enters its 892nd day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Monday, August 5, 2024.
Combating
- Ukraine introduced the mandatory evacuation of kids and their guardians from areas within the jap area of Donetsk, the place Russia has been claiming advances. Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin stated 744 youngsters and their households would depart Novohrodivka, about 20km (12 miles) from the village of Novoselivka Persha, which Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated it had captured simply hours earlier than the announcement.
- Ukrainian pilots have began flying F-16s on operations inside the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated as he visited an airbase underneath tight safety at an undisclosed location. Two of the jets have been behind him on the bottom as he spoke and two extra flew overhead.
- Ukraine’s army stated it sunk a Russian Kilo-class submarine and struck an anti-missile system established to guard the strategic Kerch bridge within the Moscow-occupied Crimean Peninsula over the weekend.
Politics and diplomacy
- Mali stated it was instantly chopping diplomatic ties with Ukraine after Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s army intelligence company (GUR), stated that Mali’s northern separatist Tuareg rebels had obtained the “crucial” data to conduct an assault final month on Malian troopers and mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, which killed 131 fighters.
- Ukrainian Minister for International Affairs Dmytro Kuleba is on his fourth diplomatic tour of Africa in two years, making an attempt to rally help for Kyiv’s efforts to push Russian forces out of its territory. Kuleba will probably be in Africa till August 8 and can go to Malawi, Zambia and Mauritius.
- Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh received the nation’s first particular person gold medal on the Paris Olympics when she received the excessive leap, clearing 2 metres in entrance of an adoring crowd on the Stade de France. Ukraine additionally took bronze within the occasion with Iryna Gerashchenko sharing the medal with Australia’s Eleanor Patterson.
