{"id":339968,"date":"2025-08-13T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339968\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:00:12","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1266-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339968\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,266 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events on day 1,266 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 13:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>A Russian attack killed a civilian and injured one other person in Shakhove, in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces bombed the town of Bilozerske, also in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, overnight, killing two people and injuring seven, including a 16-year-old boy, the regional prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/li>\n<li>The AFP news agency reported that Ukrainians were evacuating Bilozerske as Russian troops made gains in the area, while Ukrainian battlefield monitoring group DeepState reported that Russian forces had advanced in Nikanorivka, Shcherbynivka and near Petrivka in the Donetsk region.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/12\/ukraine-sends-reserves-to-stop-russian-advance-in-east-amid-diplomatic-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said that Russia wants Ukraine to withdraw from the entire Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine as part of a ceasefire deal, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin is due to meet United States President Donald Trump for talks about the war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/8\/trump-announces-august-15-meet-up-with-putin-in-alaska-warns-of-land-swap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Alaska<\/a> on Friday.<\/li>\n<li>The Ukrainian General Staff said its forces were involved in \u201cdifficult\u201d fighting close to Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in Donetsk, and that reinforcements were required to block attacks by small groups of Russian troops.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s SBU intelligence service claimed that Ukrainian drones hit a Russian long-range drone storage warehouse in the Kzyl-Yul settlement in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.<\/li>\n<li>A person died after being injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Monday in Arzamas, in Russia\u2019s Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Russia\u2019s state-run TASS news agency, which cited the regional governor.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"tr-story-p1\">International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said that IAEA staff had observed smoke rising from an administration building at Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, but that there was \u201cno radiation increase, no nuclear safety impact reported, and no casualties\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces shot down six guided bombs and 179 drones in 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Tuesday, according to TASS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3885138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AFP__20250812__69DZ4G3__v1__HighRes__UkraineRussiaConflictWar-1755034727.jpg\" alt=\"people carrying their belongings get onto a yellow bus\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Ukrainian residents of the town of Bilozerske board a bus to evacuate following a strike, Donetsk region, Tuesday [Genya Savilov\/AFP]Ceasefire<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Zelenskyy said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/8\/trump-announces-august-15-meet-up-with-putin-in-alaska-warns-of-land-swap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the summit<\/a> between Trump and Putin in Alaska on Friday is a \u201cpersonal victory\u201d for Putin, \u201cbecause he is meeting on US territory\u201d, and because he \u201chas somehow postponed sanctions\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy also said he had received a \u201cfirst signal\u201d from US envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia might agree to a ceasefire, without providing further details.<\/li>\n<li>White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the meeting in Alaska\u2019s capital, Anchorage, would be \u201ca listening exercise for the president\u201d, and that the aim was for him \u201cto walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/12\/top-russia-us-diplomats-hold-phone-call-before-trump-putin-alaska-meet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke on the phone<\/a> on Tuesday. The US State Department said that \u201cboth sides confirmed their commitment to ensure a successful event\u201d in Alaska.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Putin spoke with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about his upcoming meeting with Trump. Putin also expressed appreciation for North Korea\u2019s support in the \u201cliberation of the Kursk Region from the invading forces of the Kyiv regime\u201d, the ministry said in a post on Telegram.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy held calls with the president of Turkiye, the emir of Qatar, the president of Romania and the prime minister of the Netherlands on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events on day 1,266 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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