Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 20:

Fighting

Russian authorities have returned the remains of 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on Monday, according to The Kyiv Independent news outlet.

Russia’s state-run TASS news agency confirmed that Russia returned the bodies of 1,000 soldiers, adding that Ukraine returned the bodies of 19 Russian soldiers.

Separately, TASS reported that about 1,370 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a single day, citing the Russian Ministry of Defence. Al Jazeera could not verify this claim independently.

Russian forces dropped 250kg (550 lbs) bombs on the city of Kostiantynivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Serhii Horbunov, the head of the Kostiantynivka City Military Administrati

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