Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 895 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 895th day, these are the key developments.

This is the situation on Thursday, August 8, 2024.

Fighting

• Russia declared a local state of emergency and evacuated thousands of residents from areas close to the border in the southern Kursk region after reports that hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers, supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, crossed the border near the town of Sudzha. Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the “large-scale provocation”. Ukraine has not confirmed the attack.
• Russia’s Health Ministry said 31 civilians, including six children, were injured in the fighting. The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexey Smirnov, said on Tuesday that five people had been killed in the fighting. There was no information about military casualties.
• Russia’s Rossiya-24 said war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny was in intensive care at a local hospital after being injured in a Ukrainian drone strike while reporting from the Kursk region.
• At least four people were killed and one was injured in Russian bombings in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine. Regional governor Vadym Filashkin said an elderly man and woman were killed in the village of Antonivka, about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the combat zone. A man and a woman were killed in a separate attack on the Mykhaylivka settlement.
• At least one person was injured and nearly two dozen homes were damaged, according to regional authorities, in Russia’s third consecutive nighttime attack on the Kiev region.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down all 30 drones that Russia launched over seven regions of Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence agency confirmed that its forces carried out an attack on the Russian-controlled Tendra Spit in the northwestern Black Sea, saying it damaged equipment and fortifications and inflicted casualties. Moscow-based officials in the area said on Tuesday that Russian forces had repelled a Ukrainian attempt to land in the Russian-controlled region.

Politics and diplomacy

• Estonian prosecutors have charged Svetlana Burceva, a 57-year-old Russian-Estonian journalist, with treason and violating international sanctions against Moscow, the AFP news agency reported, citing a statement from state prosecutor Eneli Laurits. Burceva has worked with Estonian online sites controlled by Russian state media group Rossiya Segodnya since 2017.
• A Moscow court has jailed Russian military blogger Andrei Kurshin for six and a half years after the former soldier was found guilty of “knowingly disseminating false information about Russia’s armed forces”. Kurshin accused Russian forces of cutting off water supplies to Ukrainian civilians and bombing a maternity hospital on his Telegram channel.
• Ksenia Karelina, a dual Russian-American citizen, pleaded guilty in a Russian court to a charge of treason, state news agency RIA Novosti said, citing her lawyer on Wednesday. Karelina is on trial in the city of Yekaterinburg for a donation she made in 2022 to a charity supporting Ukraine.