This blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Thursday, August 31.
This blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Thursday, August 31.
- Ukraine’s military has said that six members of the armed forces have been killed on board two helicopters while they were on a mission near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine by the Russian border.
- Russia has claimed it downed a Ukrainian drone that was flying towards Moscow and also said “an unmanned Ukrainian aerial vehicle” was thwarted over Bryansk.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has slammed systematic corruption in medical exemptions to people avoiding military service, saying the system was subject to bribes and mass departures abroad.
- The co-founder and military commander of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Dimitry Utkin, was laid to rest in a private funeral near Moscow, a week after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.