Ukraine Update…910 Days of the Russian Conflict….

Ukraine advances in Kursk….

Russian advances in Donesk…

• India’s Narendra Modi arrived in Kyiv on a closely-watched visit, the first by an Indian prime minister since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991.

• Modi told Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he is “personally” ready to play a role “as a friend” to bring peace to Ukraine.

• The Indian prime minister said “the road to resolution can only be found through dialogue and diplomacy. And we should move in that direction without wasting any time. Both sides should sit together to find a way out of this crisis.”

• Zelenskiy said “history was made” and that “India supports Ukraine’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

• Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser in the Ukrainian president’s office, said that Modi’s visit to Kyiv is significant because New Delhi “really has a certain influence” over Moscow.

• The Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said that Vladimir Putin has formulated a response to the Ukrainian incursion in the Kursk region.

• Russia accused Ukraine today of trying to attack the Kursk nuclear power station. TASS cited an unnamed source as saying a drone was shot down near a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel….

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• Russian forces mounted 53 attacks on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk oblast on Thursday as Moscow pressed to take the town, which Kyiv’s military described as the main focus of the invaders’ efforts in Ukraine. Elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near the settlement of Niu-York. Russia earlier said it had seized the settlement. Russia’s army also claimed it had captured the village of Mezhove, between already held Avdiivka and Pokrovsk. Ukraine did not confirm the Russian claims.

• A ferry loaded with fuel tanks sank in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar region on Thursday after a Ukrainian attack, local authorities said. Kavkaz port is one of Russia’s largest on the Black Sea, exporting as well as sending fuel across to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Crimea.

• Ukraine’s air force said it used a US-made GBU-39 bomb to strike a Russian platoon command post in the Kursk region of Russia which Ukraine has invaded. The model is a precision-guided small diameter bomb with wings that unfold so it can glide to its target using built-in navigation after being dropped from a plane. Allies including the US are supplying weapons to Ukrainian forces but have imposed restrictions on how and when they can be used inside Russia.

• The Biden administration will send about $125m in new military aid to Ukraine including air defence missiles; Himars ammunition; Javelin anti-tank missile systems and other anti-armour missiles; counter-drone and counter-electronic warfare systems and equipment; 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition; vehicles and other equipment. Officials said the weapons were being provided through presidential drawdown authority, which means they are taken from Pentagon stockpiles and can be delivered more quickly.

• A Russian strike killed a 56-year-old man and injured eight others in the Kharkiv region of north-east Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office said on Thursday. The injured included a 15-year-old boy, while residential buildings were also damaged in the Russian strike on the village of Bohodukhiv, the prosecutor general’s office said.

• Russian drone attacks killed two civilians and wounded a third, while a guided bomb attack killed two people, said prosecutors and officials in Sumy, which borders Russia’s Kursk region that Ukrainian troops have partly occupied.

• Ukraine’s drone attack on Thursday at Marinovka airbase in Russia’s Volgograd region caused fires and ammunition explosions lasting hours, Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding report. Ukraine’s SBU security service said it carried out the remote raid on the base, home to about 30 Su-34 and Su-35 fighter jets. The planes carry out regular bombing runs against Ukrainian positions on the frontline about 280 miles away, the SBU told the Kyiv Independent newspaper. It is unclear how many jets were damaged or destroyed…..

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Ukrainian forces continued to marginally advance near Sudzha amid continued Ukrainian operations in Kursk Oblast on August 23. Russian forces recently advanced near Kreminna, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Donetsk City.