Russia-Ukraine warfare: Listing of key occasions, day 534 | Russia-Ukraine warfare Information

These are the principle developments because the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 534th day.

Right here is the state of affairs on Friday, August 11, 2023.

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Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of almost 12,000 civilians from 37 cities and villages close to the northeastern entrance line within the Kupiansk area as Russia ramps up efforts to recapture territory within the space that it had seized and misplaced earlier within the battle.
The Russian military reported improved positioning of hits troops round Kupiansk, the place Kyiv has reported growing Russian assaults. Ukrainian army officers mentioned they’re dealing with intense fight on entrance traces close to Kupiansk.
Ukraine’s overseas minister performed down the likelihood that his nation’s slow-moving counteroffensive in opposition to Russian forces may dampen Western army assist and power Kyiv into negotiations with Russia.
At the very least one individual was killed and 9 wounded in a Russian missile assault on the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian shelling killed one individual and injured at the very least two in Russia’s border area of Bryansk. A civilian was additionally killed in a Ukrainian assault on the Russian-held city of Nova Kakhovka in southern Ukraine, Russian-appointed authorities mentioned on Telegram.
Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant misplaced connection to its final remaining foremost exterior energy provide in a single day and was switched to a reserve line, state energy agency Energoatom mentioned.
A Russian air assault destroyed a gasoline depot within the western Rivne area of Ukraine.
Russia mentioned it downed 13 Ukrainian drones in search of to assault the biggest metropolis in Russian-annexed Crimea, and the Russian capital Moscow.

United States President Joe Biden mentioned would ship to Congress a request for about $40bn in further spending, together with $24bn for the warfare in Ukraine and different worldwide wants associated to the warfare in opposition to Russia.
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to proceed army assist to Kyiv however famous that his authorities will act “responsibly” to keep away from a confrontation between NATO and Russia.

Final weekend’s Saudi-hosted talks to convey an finish to Russia’s warfare on Ukraine was a “breakthrough” second for Kyiv on the world stage, Ukraine’s overseas minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned. Officers from greater than 40 nations – together with China, India, Brazil, the US, and European nations, however not Russia – took half within the talks, which had been seen as an try by Kyiv to construct a broader coalition of powers to assist its imaginative and prescient of peace.

Russia’s prosecutor declared the Battle Intelligence Group (CIT) an “undesirable” organisation, criminalising its work to doc and examine armed conflicts involving Russian forces.

Ukraine’s navy mentioned a brand new non permanent Black Sea “humanitarian hall” had began working and that the primary ships had been anticipated to make use of it inside days. Oleh Chalyk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy, mentioned the hall could be for business ships blocked at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and for grain and agricultural merchandise.
Russia mentioned it deliberate to ship a small quantity of grain to African nations within the “close to future” with out cost. “We’re speaking about six nations and provide volumes from 25,000 to 50,000 tonnes, that is being labored out now,” Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev instructed journalists. Patrushev mentioned Russia exported 60 million tonnes of grain final yr and anticipated to export about 55 million tonnes this yr.

Poland plans to maneuver as much as 10,000 further troops to the border with Belarus to assist the nation’s border guard, amid the arrival of hundreds of battle-hardened Russia’s Wagner mercenary forces within the neighbouring nation in latest weeks.