Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,225

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, July 3:

Fighting

• A pistillate successful her 70s was killed and 2 radical were injured erstwhile debris from a destroyed Ukrainian drone fell connected a residential gathering successful Russia’s southwestern portion of Lipetsk, Regional Governor Igor Artamonov said connected Thursday.

• Russia has made incursions adjacent 2 towns, Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka, that are important to service proviso routes successful eastbound Ukraine, Viktor Trehubov, a spokesperson for the Khortytsia radical of forces, told the Reuters quality agency. Trehubov said Russian forces are carrying retired “constant attacks with the intent of breaking through” to the borderline of the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Reuters.

• Russia’s aerial defence systems destroyed 69 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti reported aboriginal connected Thursday.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had called successful the acting US envoy to Kyiv, Keith Kellogg, to accent the value of US subject assistance aft the Pentagon decided to halt immoderate shipments of captious weapons implicit concerns that stockpiles are moving low.
• “The Ukrainian broadside emphasised that immoderate hold oregon procrastination successful supporting Ukraine’s defence capabilities volition lone promote the aggressor to proceed the warfare and terror, alternatively than question peace,” the Foreign Ministry said.
• Deputy White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly said the halt to immoderate shipments was made “to enactment America’s interests first” pursuing a Department of Defense reappraisal of subject enactment astir the world.

•  Russia is utilizing an online media outlet to sow discord successful Germany arsenic portion of disinformation efforts being carried retired alongside its warfare successful Ukraine, the German Foreign Ministry said connected Wednesday.

• The outlet, Red, portrays itself arsenic a “revolutionary level for autarkic journalists” but has “close links” with the Russian authorities media outlet RT, a ministry spokesperson told reporters successful Berlin.

• The European Union’s apical diplomat, Kaja Kallas, warned that Chinese businesses’ enactment for Russia’s warfare posed a menace to European security, the EU’s diplomatic work said successful a statement, pursuing a gathering betwixt Kallas and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
• Kallas urged China “to instantly cease each worldly enactment that sustains Russia’s subject concern complex” and enactment “a afloat and unconditional ceasefire” and a “just and lasting bid successful Ukraine”, the connection said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies