August 26, 2022 (Friday)

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.

Ethiopian forces reportedly airstrike a kindergarten playground in Mekelle, Tigray Region, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 13 others.

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.

Russian peacekeepers withdraw from the city of Lachin and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, thereby returning the Lachin corridor to Azerbaijan.

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.

Police arrest over 40 protestors for vandalism during a Just Stop Oil protest and blockade in London, United Kingdom.