Because the conflict enters its 891st day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Sunday, August 4, 2024.
Combating
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Russian shelling of a residential space killed one individual and injured two within the strategic logistical hub in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area, the regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, stated. Rescue employees have been nonetheless dousing the flames as dazed residents appeared on two hours after the impression, which police on the scene blamed on a UMPB D-30 glide bomb.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has praised his forces for hitting army targets inside Russia, after his military reported a number of strikes together with the Morozovsk airfield within the Rostov area and a B-237 submarine in Russian-occupied Crimea.
- Kyiv stated it had confronted a number of missiles and 29 drones, out of which 24 drones have been destroyed. Officers within the central area of Vinnytsia stated the assaults broken infrastructure, with out giving extra particulars. Zelenskyy earlier stated that Russia launched greater than 600 guided air bombs on Ukraine within the final week alone.
- Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin stated Ukrainian air defence shot down 5 drones over his area. Russian assaults on the area prior to now day struck vital infrastructure, an administrative constructing and 9 residential houses, he stated.
- Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim stated one of many drones shot down by air defence brought about a hearth in outbuildings, which has since been extinguished, with no casualties reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- Senegal has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador over a video he printed in assist of current lethal assaults in opposition to the Malian military and its Russian allies, the Ministry of International Affairs and Senegalese Overseas stated in a press release. The ministry stated it maintains “constructive neutrality within the Russian-Ukrainian battle”.
- Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, freed this week from a 25-year prison sentence as a part of a prisoner swap between Russia and the West, advised journalists in Germany that many Russians have been “against [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s conflict in Ukraine”.
- Ukraine’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets has urged the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to probe a picture extensively shared on-line that he stated possible confirmed a Ukrainian prisoner of conflict killed and dismembered by Russian forces. Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s prosecutor common, stated Russia “constantly repeats the crimes of the Nazis”.
Financial system
- The US rankings company S&P lower Ukraine’s credit standing to “selective default”, citing the war-torn nation’s failure to make a coupon fee on an current bond. S&P stated it had downgraded Ukraine’s credit standing to “SD/SD” from “CC/C”, which implies a really excessive stage of default threat.
Sport
- Ukraine received their first gold medal of the Paris Olympics 2024 when their fencers triumphed within the ladies’s sabre crew competitors, beating South Korea 45-42 within the closing on the Grand Palais. The victory was hailed within the war-torn nation, with Zelenskyy declaring on social media that the gold confirmed “that Ukrainians are successful!”