VIDEO. Ukrainian incursion in Kursk, repelling of Russian air attacks… one minute to be up to date on the war in Ukraine

Every morning on Midilibre.fr, discover “News from kyiv”, a minute of video to keep up to date with the latest events in the war that has been raging in Ukraine, on the edge of Europe, since February 2022. Here are the highlights of Monday, August 19.

Ukraine says it has destroyed an additional bridge in the Russian region of Kursk

The Ukrainian military has destroyed an additional bridge over the Seyim River in Russia's Kursk region, limiting the supply capabilities of a group of soldiers opposing the advances of Ukrainian troops, a Ukrainian military commander said. kyiv claims to have controlled an area of ​​more than 1,150 km2 since the start of the unexpected incursion launched on August 6 in the cross-border region of Kursk, the most significant setback suffered by Moscow since the start of the war in February 2022.

Ukraine says it has repelled a Russian airstrike

Ukrainian air defense units repelled a Russian airstrike last night, including on Kiev, and destroyed all 11 drones launched by Moscow on Ukrainian territory, the Ukrainian army announced. Ukrainian air force. The drones were destroyed while flying over the Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Donetsk regions, the military added on the Telegram messenger.

Russians use North Korean ballistic missiles on Kiev for third time in a row

Russia launched ballistic missiles on Kiev on Sunday, the third such attack this month, which were shot down as they approached the Ukrainian capital, the city's military administration said. Eight drones and five missiles out of eight fired overnight at the Kiev, Sumy and Poltava regions were shot down, the head of the Ukrainian air force said, adding that no casualties or damage had been reported. Two houses were destroyed and 16 others damaged by falling debris.

The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, announced the destruction of two Ukrainian drones fired in the night in the Rostov region, in southwest Russia. The debris from one of them started a fire in a warehouse.

Tensions on the Belarusian border

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Sunday that nearly a third of his country's armed forces had been deployed to the border with Ukraine, which Minsk accuses of fomenting a "provocation". Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Moscow, added in an interview on Russian television that the border between Ukraine and Belarus was "mined like never before” and that Ukrainian troops would suffer heavy losses if they attempted to cross it.

Moscow denies existence of indirect talks with kyiv

Russia has denied the existence of indirect talks with kyiv aimed at stopping strikes on electricity and energy installations in the two countries. "no one broke anything because’there was nothing to break" a reacted Sunday the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. The Ukrainian presidency said the Doha talks had been postponed.