Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,237

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, July 15:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched drone attacks connected Ukraine’s eastbound regions of Kharkiv and Sumy, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and wounding 21 others, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing section authorities.
• The Ukrainian Red Cross said the attacks besides damaged buildings successful Sumy, including an acquisition and aesculapian facility.
• The decease toll from Russian attacks connected Ukraine connected Sunday has risen to six, including 3 radical successful Sumy, 2 others successful Donetsk and 1 much successful Kherson, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing section officials.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed power of 2 much villages successful eastbound Ukraine: Malynivka successful the Zaporizhia portion and Mayak successful the Donetsk region.
• Ukrainian drone attacks wounded 2 radical successful Russia’s Kursk region, and different idiosyncratic successful the metropolis of Kamianka-Dniprovska successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, which Moscow partially occupies, according to the Russian authorities TASS quality agency.
• Another Ukrainian drone deed a transformer substation successful Kreminna, successful Russian-occupied Luhansk, mounting it connected fire, TASS reported.
• Earlier, the Russian Defence Ministry said its aerial defence units destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones overnight implicit Russian territory arsenic good arsenic the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed successful 2014, and the Black Sea.
• Russian officials besides said Ukrainian forces had launched a drone onslaught connected a grooming centre astatine the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant connected Sunday evening, adding that “no critical” harm was recorded. This comes a time aft the United Nations atomic watchdog, the IAEA, said that it had heard hundreds of rounds of tiny arms occurrence precocious connected Saturday astatine the plant.

Weapons

• United States President Donald Trump said Washington would beryllium sending “billions” of dollars successful subject equipment, including Patriot aerial defence systems and different missiles to Ukraine, successful a woody that would beryllium paid for by NATO members.
• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, speaking alongside Trump astatine the White House, said Ukraine would get “massive numbers” of weapons nether the deal.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his state would play a “decisive role” successful backing the supplies, portion the country’s defence curate said Berlin and Washington would determine astir sending 2 US-made Patriot aerial defence systems to Kyiv wrong days oregon weeks.
• Earlier connected Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov criticised the US enactment for Ukraine, saying that portion “it seems” supplies to Kyiv volition present “be paid for by Europe … the information remains that the proviso of weapons, ammunition, and subject instrumentality from the United States continued and continues to Ukraine”.

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump besides said that if Moscow failed to motion a bid woody with Ukraine successful 50 days, helium would impose “very terrible tariffs” connected Russia, including secondary tariffs of 100 percent.
• The European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, Kaja Kallas, welcomed Trump’s tougher stance connected Russia, but said a 50-day ultimatum was “a precise agelong clip if we spot that they are sidesplitting guiltless civilians each day”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Telegram that helium had spoken to Trump and “thanked him for his readiness to enactment Ukraine and to proceed moving unneurotic to halt the killings and found a lasting and conscionable peace”.
• The Ukrainian person besides announced a large furniture shuffle, asking Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko to go the adjacent premier minister, and the incumbent premier minister, Denys Shmyhal, to beryllium the defence minister.
• Svyrydenko said Ukraine was facing a “crucial time” and that her priorities would beryllium “strengthening” its economy, expanding home enactment programmes and scaling up weapons production.
• US peculiar envoy Keith Kellogg visited Kyiv and held meetings with Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov.

Regional security

• Former subject officers successful Sweden could beryllium recalled to subject work successful lawsuit of request up to the property of 70, a government-appointed reappraisal suggested, arsenic the state continues to rethink its information attack owed to Russia’s penetration of Ukraine.
• Denmark volition donate European-produced outer instrumentality to Ukraine to supply “secure and unchangeable satellite-based communications”, the Danish Ministry of Defence said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies