Portal:Current events/2022 August 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Southern Ukraine campaign
      • Ukraine's state nuclear company, Energoatom, says that the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has resumed supplying electricity to Ukraine's power grid after being disconnected yesterday from it for the first time in history. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
      • A traffic police deputy chief is killed by a bombing in the Russian-occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Russian authorities accuse the Ukrainian forces of the attack. (Reuters)
• Tigray War
  • Ethiopian forces reportedly airstrike a kindergarten playground in Mekelle, Tigray Region, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 13 others. (CTV News) (Reuters)

International relations

• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan–Russia relations
  • Russian peacekeepers withdraw from the city of Lachin and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, thereby returning the Lachin corridor to Azerbaijan. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Police arrest over 40 protestors for vandalism during a Just Stop Oil protest and blockade in London, United Kingdom. (The Telegraph)
• A vehicle rams into a crowd of people in central Brussels, Belgium, injuring six people. The driver flees the scene but is subsequently arrested in Antwerp. A motive is still unclear, but terrorism is not being ruled out. (Brussels Times) (Euronews)