Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,233

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Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,233 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

A Ukrainian firefighter works   astatine  a damaged residential gathering  aft  a Russian rocket  and drone onslaught  successful  Kyiv connected  July 10, 2025, amid the Russian penetration  of Ukraine. Russian strikes connected  Ukraine's superior  Kyiv killed astatine  slightest  2  people, the city's subject   medication  said connected  July 10, aft  earlier informing  of incoming missiles and reporting astir   a twelve  wounded. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

A Ukrainian firefighter works astatine a damaged residential gathering aft a Russian rocket and drone onslaught connected Kyiv [Genya Savilov/AFP]

Published On 11 Jul 2025

Here is however things basal connected Friday, July 11:

Fighting

  • Russia’s escalation of drone and rocket attacks connected Ukrainian cities led to a three-year precocious successful the fig of civilians killed oregon wounded successful June, the United Nations said. The UN verified astatine slightest 232 radical killed and 1,343 wounded during the period – the highest combined toll since April 2022.
  • Russia unleashed dense aerial strikes connected Ukraine, sidesplitting 2 and wounding 26, earlier a league successful Rome astatine which Kyiv won billions of dollars successful assistance pledges, and US-Russian talks astatine which Washington voiced vexation with Moscow implicit the war.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s latest battle progressive astir 400 drones and 18 missiles, chiefly targeting the capital.
  • Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had deed “military-industrial” targets successful Kyiv arsenic good arsenic subject airfields. It denied targeting civilians, though towns and cities person been deed regularly successful the war, and thousands person been killed.
  • Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian aerial defences had brought down 4 Ukrainian drones bound for the Russian capital. Three airports successful the Moscow country – Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky – suspended operations temporarily but aboriginal resumed, Russia’s aviation authorization said.
  • In the Kursk portion successful occidental Russia, Acting Governor Alexander Khinstein said a Ukrainian drone had killed a antheral successful his ain home, 2 days aft 4 radical died successful a drone onslaught connected the city’s beach.
  • Russia’s Defence Ministry said 14 drones were changeable down implicit the Bryansk portion and different 8 implicit the Belgorod region, which borderline Ukraine. A aboriginal ministry bulletin said 26 Ukrainian drones were destroyed implicit the Kursk and Bryansk regions.
  • The Vatican’s embassy successful Kyiv was somewhat damaged during Russian attacks connected the Ukrainian superior connected Thursday, the embassy said successful a statement. Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, the Vatican’s envoy to Ukraine, told Vatican News helium had witnessed drones circling the embassy grounds and heard respective explosions.

Weapons

  • United States President Donald Trump, for the archetypal clip since returning to office, volition nonstop weapons to Kyiv nether a statesmanlike powerfulness often utilized by his predecessor, 2 sources acquainted with the determination told Reuters. The bundle could see antiaircraft Patriot missiles and violative medium-range rockets, the sources said.

  • Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has signed a antecedently announced woody to proviso Ukraine with much than 5,000 aerial defence missiles from Thales. The woody was first announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer connected March 2.

Politics and diplomacy

  • Participants successful a Rome league connected the economic betterment of Ukraine person pledged much than 10 cardinal euros ($11.7bn) to assistance the war-torn country, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced.
  • Meloni said Russia should look tougher sanctions to summation unit connected it to halt the warfare successful Ukraine. She besides said that firms that person helped Russia money its warfare connected Ukraine by doing concern with the state should beryllium excluded from profiting from Ukraine’s reconstruction.

  • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said helium had reinforced the connection that Moscow should amusement much flexibility successful dealing with Kyiv during his 50-minute talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov connected the sidelines of the ASEAN overseas ministers’ acme successful Malaysia.
  • German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged President Trump to “stay with us” successful backing Ukraine and Europe. Speaking successful Rome, wherever a Ukraine acme was being held, Merz said Germany was prepared to bargain Patriot aerial defence systems from the US and supply them to Kyiv.
  • Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has complained that the Trump administration’s contradictory actions and words made it hard to enactment with, though Moscow was dedicated to moving connected improving ties with Washington. However, helium denied that determination was a slowdown successful efforts to normalise US ties.
  • France and the United Kingdom agreed to reenforce practice implicit their respective atomic arsenals, arsenic the 2 European countries question to respond to increasing threats to the continent and uncertainty implicit their US ally. The woody was reached aft French President Emmanuel Macron concluded a three-day sojourn to the UK.

  • The UK has announced that Paris would beryllium the caller office for the alleged “coalition of the willing” to enactment Ukraine successful the lawsuit of a ceasefire, with plans nether mode for a aboriginal coordination compartment successful Kyiv.
  • Zelenskyy said helium would regenerate Ukraine’s ambassador to the US and was considering his defence minister, Rustem Umerov, for the post. He said the main task would beryllium to fortify Ukraine successful its defence efforts successful the warfare against Russia, and Umerov was a cardinal fig successful doing that.

  • Hungary has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador aft a study that a Hungarian-Ukrainian dual national was beaten to decease during forced mobilisation, an allegation Ukraine’s service rejected, saying helium died of a pulmonary embolism.
  • Beijing said it was inactive “verifying” the lawsuit of a Chinese begetter and lad detained by Ukraine for allegedly trying to smuggle navy rocket exertion retired of the war-torn country. Relations betwixt Kyiv and Beijing, a cardinal Russian ally, are strained, with Ukraine accusing China of enabling Russia’s penetration done commercialized and of supplying technology, including for deadly drone attacks.

Crime

  • A elder Ukrainian spy officer has been changeable successful a residential car parkland successful Kyiv earlier his assailant fled connected ft successful wide daylight, according to authorities and video footage verified by Reuters. Kyiv’s constabulary unit said it was moving to place the gunman and that “measures are being taken to detain him”.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies

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