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What happened around 12 August 2022 in the war
Summary
A look back at security developments reported in the days leading up to 12 August 2022, from a nuclear plant under fire to diplomatic distancing from Moscow and Beijing.
What did the security picture look like on 12 August 2022? Reports from the preceding days pointed to violence reaching civilians and critical infrastructure, and to neighbours reassessing their ties.
Shells at a nuclear plant
On 11 August 2022, at least ten shells hit the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, in an area under Russian occupation. Russia and Ukraine each blamed the other for the attack. The strikes damaged an office building and the plant's fire station.
Civilians killed in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
On 10 August 2022, a Russian missile strike in Nikopol Raion, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killed at least 13 civilians and injured 11 others.
Pressure beyond the front line
The war also shaped decisions far from the battlefield. On 10 August 2022, Uzbekistan's embassy in Russia warned its citizens not to join Russian forces invading Ukraine. It said those who did so would face criminal liability for mercenaryism on returning to Uzbekistan.
On 11 August 2022, Estonia and Latvia formally withdrew from the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries group. The move came amid tensions with China over its human rights record and its support of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Taken together, the reports from 10 and 11 August 2022 showed a conflict affecting nuclear plant safety, civilian lives and the diplomatic choices of states well beyond Ukraine's borders.
