{"id":376590,"date":"2025-08-27T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:21:09","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1280-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376590\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,280 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events on day 1,280 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 27:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Russian attacks killed one person and injured six in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said.<\/li>\n<li>One worker was killed and six others were injured in a Russian attack on a Ukrainian mine, according to the energy company DTEK, which said the attack damaged buildings and caused a power outage. \u201cAt that time, 146 miners were underground, and their ascent to the surface is ongoing,\u201d the company said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian attacks killed one person and injured three others in the Russian-occupied Kherson region of Ukraine, the Moscow-appointed Governor Vladimir Saldo said.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces occupied Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka, in Ukraine\u2019s Dnipropetrovsk region, the Ukrainian battlefield monitoring group DeepState has reported. Russian forces also advanced near the Ukrainian settlements of Shevchenko, Bila Hora, and Oleksandr-Shultyno, according to DeepState.<\/li>\n<li>Russian air defences shot down 191 Ukrainian drones, six guided aerial bombs, and a long-range guided missile in one day, Russia\u2019s state TASS news agency reports.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 are now permitted to cross Ukraine\u2019s borders freely in either direction despite the continuing imposition of martial law, which had previously prevented such movement, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General\u2019s Office told the Ukrainska Pravda news site that more than 200,000 cases have been opened into soldiers who were absent without leave (AWOL), including some 50,000 investigated for desertion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peace talks<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">United States President Donald Trump said he is prepared to impose economic sanctions against Russia if its leader, Vladimir Putin, fails to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine: \u201cWe want to have an end. We have economic sanctions. I\u2019m talking about economic because we\u2019re not going to get into a world war.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged governments to work quickly on creating security guarantees for Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, saying: \u201cWe must intensify our work to the maximum and ensure clarity and transparency in everything related to security guarantees\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The US may provide intelligence assets and battlefield oversight to assist Western powers in the provision of security guarantees for post-war Ukraine, as well as take part in a European-led air defence shield for the country, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed European and Ukrainian officials.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy\u2019s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and Kyiv\u2019s national security council chief, Rustem Umerov, met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani in Doha, where they had a \u201csubstantive conversation\u201d on topics including \u201cthe details of security guarantees for Ukraine\u201d, Yermak wrote on X.<\/li>\n<li>Exxon Mobil and the Russian energy company Rosneft secretly discussed resuming work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2022\/2\/28\/western-companies-in-russias-oil-and-gas-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sakhalin-1<\/a> oil and gas producing project, on Russia\u2019s Pacific coast, if Moscow and Washington give their approval as part of a Ukraine peace process, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the secret discussions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Polish President Karol Nawrocki\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/25\/polish-veto-risks-ukraines-crucial-starlink-access-amid-refugee-aid-row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">veto a bill<\/a> on aid to Ukrainian refugees in his country could cost Poland\u2019s economy 8 billion zlotys ($2.20bn), in part because thousands of Ukrainians would lose the right to legal employment, Poland\u2019s Ministry of the Interior said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events on day 1,280 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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