Here are the key events on day 1,258 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Here is how things stand on Tuesday, August 5:
Fighting
- Three people were killed in a Russian attack on the Stepnohirsk community in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, the local military administration reported on Telegram. Russia launched 405 attacks on 10 settlements in the region in the past day, the administration said on Monday.
- Russian drone attacks killed three people in the Chuhuiv district of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the regional prosecutor’s office stated. The victims included a man killed when Russian drones caused a fire in his home in Losivka village, and a man and a woman who were riding a motorcycle when they were killed. The prosecutor’s office is investigating the motorcycle attack as a possible war crime.
- Russian attacks across Ukraine’s Kherson region killed one person and damaged homes, cars, and a gas pipeline, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported. A man injured by artillery shelling in Beryslav on July 27 also died due to his injuries, Prokudin added.
- Russian attacks killed one person in Dobropillya city in the Pokrovsky region and another person in Kostiantynivka city, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin reported.
- Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) claimed that Ukrainian drones hit five Russian fighter jets at Saky airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, destroying one of them.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries are fighting with Russian forces in Vovchansk area of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s general staff confirmed responsibility for a drone attack that caused a fire at a fuel depot of Sochi airport in southern Russia on Sunday.
Military aid
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/5/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1258?traffic_source=rss
