Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,228

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, July 6 :

Fighting

• Ukraine’s subject claimed an onslaught connected the Borisoglebsk airbase successful Russia’s Voronezh region, hitting a depot containing glide bombs and grooming aircraft. Russian officials did not instantly remark connected the attack.
• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian aerial defences changeable down 4 Ukrainian drones headed for the Russian capital, forcing 1 of Moscow’s main airports to temporarily halt outgoing flights.
• This came arsenic Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its aerial defences had intercepted 48 Ukrainian drones successful a play of conscionable implicit 5 hours into Saturday evening, and 45 much during the day. Earlier, the ministry said that 94 drones had been destroyed implicit Russia overnight.
• In Ukraine, the Air Force said Russia fired 322 drones and decoys into the state overnight into Saturday. Of these, 157 were changeable down and 135 were lost, apt having been electronically jammed.
• Ukraine’s occidental Khmelnytskyi portion was the main people of the attack, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. Regional Governor Serhii Tyurin said nary damage, injuries oregon deaths had been reported.
• Russian forces occupied the Ukrainian settlements of Zelenyi Kut and Novoukrainka adjacent the administrative borderline betwixt the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, Ukrainian subject blog DeepState reported connected Telegram.
• Ukraine’s apical subject commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, warned connected Saturday of a imaginable caller Russian violative successful the Kharkiv region, successful northeastern Ukraine.
• The Kyiv Independent reported that explosions damaged a state pipeline and destroyed a h2o pipeline that supplied subject facilities successful Russia’s Vladivostok, citing an unnamed quality source.

Politics and diplomacy

• After speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy connected Friday, United States President Donald Trump said Ukraine would request Patriot missiles for its defence. Trump besides voiced vexation implicit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nonaccomplishment to extremity the fighting.
• Trump told reporters helium was “very unhappy” astir his earlier telephone with Putin. “It conscionable seems similar helium wants to spell each the mode and conscionable support sidesplitting people… It’s not good. I wasn’t blessed with it,” helium said.
• In a station connected X, Zelenskyy described his telephone with Trump arsenic “extremely fruitful”, confirming that the brace “discussed aerial defence”.
• “I’m grateful for the readiness to assist,” Zelenskyy said. “Patriot systems are the cardinal to defending against ballistic threats.”
• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres powerfully condemned Russia’s “large-scale drone and rocket attacks” connected Ukraine connected Friday, describing the attacks arsenic “reportedly the largest successful implicit 3 years of war”.
• Guterres besides expressed alarm astatine the “dangerous escalation and the increasing fig of civilian casualties” arsenic good arsenic interest astir disruption to powerfulness astatine the “Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, erstwhile again underlining the ongoing risks to atomic safety”.
• Adam Smith, a apical Democratic legislator, has dismissed the Pentagon’s assertion it held up weapons shipments to Ukraine implicit debased stockpiles. Smith told NBC News his unit had “seen the numbers” and said the US is “not astatine immoderate little point, stockpile-wise, than we’ve been successful the 3½ years of the Ukraine conflict”.

Economy

• Bloomberg reported that US concern steadfast BlackRock paused efforts to rise funds for a multibillion-dollar Ukraine betterment money aft Trump was elected, starring France to measurement successful to enactment connected an alternate fund.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies