Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,224

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, July 2:

Fighting

• A Ukrainian drone attack connected an concern works successful Izhevsk, successful cardinal Russia, killed 3 radical and injured 35 others, determination Governor Alexander Brechalov said successful a station connected Telegram.
• The drone struck the Kupol Electromechanical Plant, which produces aerial defence systems and drones for the Russian military, an unnamed authoritative with Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, told the Associated Press quality agency.
• A Russian onslaught connected a conveyance evacuating civilians from Pokrovsk, successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured a policeman, constabulary said.
• The Ministry of Defence successful Moscow said that 60 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight implicit respective regions, including 17 implicit Russian-occupied Crimea, 16 implicit Russia’s Rostov portion and 4 implicit Russia’s Saratov region.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said connected Tuesday that Russia launched 52 Shahed and decoy drones astatine the state overnight.
• The United Nations atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said connected Tuesday that it has been informed of a drone onslaught past week adjacent Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant that damaged respective vehicles adjacent the site’s cooling pond.

Weapons

• Ukrainian Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov announced a caller associated weapons accumulation programme with members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG), an confederation of astir 50 countries. The programme would connection “a peculiar ineligible and taxation framework” to assistance found caller factories, “both connected Ukrainian territory and abroad”, Umerov said successful a station connected societal media.
• The Pentagon has reportedly halted immoderate shipments of aerial defence missiles and different precision munitions to Ukraine implicit concerns that US stockpiles are excessively low, the Reuters quality bureau reported, citing 2 unnamed sources. The Pentagon did not instantly remark connected the report.
• A Russian-British dual nationalist appeared successful a London tribunal connected Tuesday, charged with sending cryptocurrency for pro-Russian separatist militias successful eastbound Ukraine to bargain weapons and subject equipment.

Politics and diplomacy

• French President Emmanuel Macron called for a ceasefire successful Ukraine successful his archetypal telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2022.
• A Kremlin connection said that Putin reminded Macron that “the Ukrainian struggle is simply a nonstop effect of the argumentation of Western states”.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “no 1 is delaying thing here”, aft US envoy Keith Kellogg accused Russia of “stall[ing] for time” connected ceasefire talks, “while it bombs civilian targets successful Ukraine”.
• Peskov added: “We are people successful favour of achieving the goals that we are trying to execute done the peculiar subject cognition via governmental and diplomatic means. Therefore, we are not funny successful drafting retired anything.”

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies