Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 916 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

These are the key developments as the war enters its 916th day.

Here is the situation on Thursday, August 29, 2024.

Battle

• At least 14 people were injured and several others killed in a Russian-controlled bomb attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk. In his evening speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of fatalities, but did not give an exact number. The town hall was also damaged in the attack.
• At least eight people were injured when a Russian missile hit Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih as residents observed an official day of mourning for the four people killed in a Russian attack on a city hotel the previous day.
• Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said a family of four was killed when their house in the village of Izmailivka was hit by a Russian-guided bomb. Izmailivka, which had a population of about 200 before the war, is close to the front line in the east, where Russia is trying to capture the strategically important center of Pokrovsk.
• Donetsk region governor Vadym Filashkin said two people were killed and more than a dozen houses were damaged in separate attacks near Chasiv Yar.
• The state news agency TASS reported, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, that its forces had taken control of the settlement of Komyshivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
• The Ukrainian General Staff said in its update on Wednesday that there were “heavy battles” in several villages near Pokrovsk. “So far, the enemy has made 38 attempts to storm Ukrainian positions. Fighting is still ongoing in 14 locations,” the General Staff said.
• CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said Russian President Vladimir Putin will launch a counteroffensive to retake areas held by Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region, but he will face “a difficult fight.” Ukraine launched a surprise attack on the Russian region on August 6, claiming to have captured around 100 settlements.
• Rosgvardia, Russia's national guard, said in a statement that its sappers found a shell from a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher allegedly supplied by the US, as well as a rocket fragment believed to be filled with 180 unexploded pieces of ammunition, 5 km from the Kursk nuclear power plant. Moscow accused Ukrainian forces of attempting to attack the plant. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on the claim.
• Vasily Golubev, governor of the southern Russian region of Rostov, said a Ukrainian drone strike had set fire to an oil depot in Kamensky district. No casualties were reported.
• A Ukrainian drone strike also sparked a fire at an oil depot in the Russian town of Kotelnich in the northern Kirov region, about 1,100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the biggest problem for Kyiv was that its allies were afraid to approve new measures to support Ukraine for fear of escalation. Kuleba's comments came a day after the Russian foreign minister said the West was “playing with fire” by considering allowing Kyiv to penetrate deep into Russia and warned of the risks of a third world war.
• At a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council, NATO members reaffirmed their determination to further strengthen Ukraine's defenses. “We must continue to supply Ukraine with the equipment and ammunition it needs to defend itself against the Russian invasion. This is critical to Ukraine's ability to stay in the fight,” said Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned 92 US citizens from entering the country, including journalists, lawyers and the heads of major military-industrial companies. The list published on Telegram includes 14 Wall Street Journal employees, five senior journalists from the New York Times and four from the Washington Post.
• A Russian military court sentenced 39-year-old engineer Artyom Lozovoi to 18 years in prison for a foiled attempt to blow up a military recruitment office, state news agency TASS reported. Lozovoi was found guilty on several counts, including treason.
• Anastasia Zibrova, a dog handler from the Moscow region, was sentenced to five years in a penal colony for criticizing the Russian attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk that killed 61 people in April 2022, according to the Russian legal aid organization and observatory OVD-Info.
• In a third case, a Russian military court sentenced Ukrainian Andriy Martsenyuk to four and a half years in prison for preparing an arson attack on a local military police station, Interfax reported, citing the local branch of the FSB security service.