Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 891 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 891st day, these are the key developments.

This is the situation on Sunday, August 4, 2024.

Fighting

• Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two in the strategic logistics center in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said. Rescuers were still dousing the flames as stunned residents watched two hours after the impact, which police at the scene attributed to a UMPB D-30 glide bomb.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his forces for striking military targets inside Russia after his army reported several attacks, including on the Morozovsk airfield in the Rostov region and a B-237 submarine in Russian-occupied Crimea. .
• Kiev said it engaged several missiles and 29 drones, of which 24 drones were destroyed. Authorities in the central region of Vinnytsia said the attacks damaged infrastructure, without giving further details. Zelenskyy previously said that Russia dropped more than 600 guided aerial bombs on Ukraine in the last week alone.
• Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Ukrainian air defense shot down five drones over his region. Russian attacks in the region last day hit critical infrastructure, an administrative building and nine homes, he said.
• Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim said one of the drones shot down by air defense caused a fire in outbuildings, which has since been extinguished, with no casualties reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• Senegal has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador over a video he published in support of recent deadly attacks against the Malian army and its Russian allies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad said in a statement. The ministry said it maintains “constructive neutrality in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.”
• Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, released this week from a 25-year prison sentence as part of a prisoner swap between Russia and the West, told journalists in Germany that many Russians “opposed the [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war in Ukraine.”
• Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, has called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to investigate an image widely shared online that he said likely showed a Ukrainian prisoner of war killed and dismembered by Russian forces . Andriy Kostin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, said Russia “consistently repeats the crimes of the Nazis.”

Economy

• US rating agency S&P cut Ukraine’s credit rating to “selective default”, citing the war-torn country’s failure to make a coupon payment on an existing bond. S&P said it downgraded Ukraine’s credit rating to “SD/SD” from “CC/C,” signifying a very high level of default risk.

Sport

• Ukraine won its first gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics when its fencers triumphed in the women’s saber competition, defeating South Korea 45-42 in the final at the Grand Palais. The victory was hailed in the war-torn country, with Zelenskyy declaring on social media that the gold showed “that the Ukrainians are winning!”