Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 28:
Fighting
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has come under a large-scale night-time attack by Russia, officials said early on Thursday, with at least one dead, four injured and damage to buildings in several districts of the city, including a kindergarten.
Russian troops have entered the villages of Novoheorhiivka and Zaporizke in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, a major Ukrainian industrial centre next to the Donetsk region, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reported, citing a local commander.
Strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left more than 100,000 households without power, officials in Kyiv said.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said Russian attacks were launched against energy and gas transport infrastructure facili