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History: August 2024
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Retrospective · events of 1 August 2024
Oleksandr Ishchenko dies during trial of 22 captured Ukrainian soldiers
Security
Ukraine pressed Moscow to explain how a captured soldier died while he was being tried alongside 21 others.
Retrospective · events of 2 August 2024
Fico's diesel threat over Lukoil oil transit
Politics
A look back at a dispute over Russian oil transit to Slovakia, and at a missile warning from Moscow, as of 2 August 2024.
Retrospective · events of 3 August 2024
Three security threads converging by 3 August 2024
Security
A look back at the late-July 2024 developments on missiles, prisoners of war and Ukraine's reach into Mali that framed the security picture on 3 August 2024.
Retrospective · events of 3 August 2024
Fico's diesel threat and Putin's missile warning
Politics
Two statements in the final days of July 2024 showed how Ukraine's war was pulling its neighbours and Western partners into wider disputes over energy and security.
Retrospective · events of 4 August 2024
Ukraine's first F-16s and a Slovak diesel threat
Politics
A look back at two developments from the days around 4 August 2024, one on military aid and one on energy.
Retrospective · events of 5 August 2024
What happened on 5 August 2024 after Mali's break
Security
A look back at the reports from 4 August 2024 on Ukraine's first F-16s, a Russian claim in Donetsk Oblast and Mali's diplomatic rupture with Kyiv.
Retrospective · events of 6 August 2024
Kursk incursion: what 6 August 2024 changed
Opinion
A look back at the day Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, amid a week of battlefield and diplomatic shifts.
Retrospective · events of 7 August 2024
What did 7 August 2024 follow on the front?
Security
A look back at two battlefield developments reported on 6 August 2024, the eve of the covered day.
Retrospective · events of 8 August 2024
What happened in Kursk Oblast on 8 August 2024?
Security
A look back at the third day of Ukraine's cross-border incursion, when fighting reached Sudzha and Kyiv's president appeared to confirm the operation.
Retrospective · events of 8 August 2024
What Ukraine's Kursk incursion looked like by 8 August 2024
Security
A look back at how the cross-border operation into Kursk Oblast had developed two days after it began.
Retrospective · events of 9 August 2024
Ukraine's president announced F-16 arrivals, then hinted at Russian incursion
Politics
A look back at the days around 9 August 2024, when Ukraine's president appeared to confirm a cross-border operation and had announced F-16 arrivals.
Retrospective · events of 10 August 2024
Ukraine pushes into Russia as missiles hit Kostiantynivka and Kramatorsk
Opinion
A look back at a day when Ukraine pressed its cross-border operation, Russia struck civilian and infrastructure targets, and Kyiv turned to questions of spiritual independence.
Retrospective · events of 12 August 2024
Kursk chemical claims and a widening information front
Security
A retrospective on 12 August 2024, when a Russian regional claim of chemical poisoning met an immediate denial from Kyiv.
Retrospective · events of 13 August 2024
Kursk: 74 settlements against 28 kilometres
Opinion
Two figures offered on 13 August 2024 point to very different pictures of the fighting inside Russia, while a fresh accusation and a deadly strike on the capital add to the picture.
Retrospective · events of 13 August 2024
Kyiv, Minsk and the Kursk operation, August 2024
Politics
A look back at the political developments reported around 13 August 2024, from the Belarus border to a proposed church ban.
Retrospective · events of 14 August 2024
What did Kyiv's Kursk gamble put on the table?
Politics
By 14 August 2024, Ukraine's incursion into Russia had produced prisoners, a possible exchange and a wider set of political signals.
Retrospective · events of 14 August 2024
Kursk captures and a church ban debated
Politics
A look back at 14 August 2024, when Ukraine's president spoke of more than 100 Russian prisoners and the first days of the Kursk offensive.
Retrospective · events of 14 August 2024
Zelenskyy open to swapping captured Russian troops for Ukrainian prisoners
Politics
A look back at the Ukrainian president's remarks on captured Russian soldiers and the days of announcements leading up to them.
Retrospective · events of 15 August 2024
What did Ukraine's Kursk push look like on 15 August?
Security
A look back at a day when prisoners, a new military administration and British permission for weapon use marked the cross-border offensive.
Retrospective · events of 17 August 2024
What did 17 August 2024 reveal about the Kursk gamble?
Security
As Ukraine's incursion into Russia deepened, allied permissions, a German aid freeze and nuclear safety warnings framed the day.
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