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23 August 2024
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August 2024 in brief
Ukrainian forces crossed into Russia's Kursk Oblast in the largest cross-border ground operation of the war, and the acting Kursk governor said about 121,000 people had left the border areas, with 180,000 subject to evacuation. [1][2] Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said troops held 1,150 square km and 82 settlements, while Russia's chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov had told Putin the advance was halted, a claim the Kyiv Independent could not verify. [1] In Donetsk Oblast, a strike on a supermarket in Kostiantynivka killed at least 14 people, according to the Prosecutor General's Office, and Pokrovsk authorities urged residents to evacuate as Russian forces advanced. [1][2] Russia launched more than 100 missiles and about 100 drones in one of the largest attacks on the energy system, causing nationwide power cuts and killing seven people, the State Emergency Service said. [1] Guided bombs on a Kharkiv apartment block and other districts killed at least seven and injured 97, local authorities said, and a missile strike on a Kramatorsk hotel killed a Reuters safety adviser. [1][2] A fire burned in a cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which each side blamed on the other and which the IAEA said did not affect nuclear safety, and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi called the Kursk nuclear plant's closeness to the fighting extremely serious. [1][2] The two sides exchanged 115 prisoners each on Ukraine's Independence Day, including Russian conscripts captured in Kursk. [1]