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August 20, 2022 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - Southern Ukraine campaign, War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    - Nine civilians, including four children, are injured by Russian shelling on a residential building in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast, according to regional governor Vitaliy Kim. (The Washington Post)
    - Russia says that a number of its soldiers in Zaporizhzhia have been poisoned by Ukraine, with tests showing Botulinum toxin type B present in their bodies. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2022 Turkey road crashes
- Sixteen people are killed and 21 others are injured when a bus crashes into the scene of an earlier road accident in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. (BBC News)
- Twenty people are killed and 29 others are injured when a truck crashes into the scene of an earlier road accident involving three vehicles in Mardin Province, Turkey. (Al Jazeera)
Four people are killed and others are reportedly trapped after a Shiite mosque collapsed during a landslide in Karbala, Iraq. (BBC News)

Health and environment

Law and crime

Darya Dugina, the daughter of far-right political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, is killed by a car bomb in Moscow Oblast, Russia. (RTVI) (The Guardian)

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