Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,239

Here is however things basal connected Thursday, July 17:

Fighting

• A Russian aerial raid connected a buying centre and marketplace successful Dobropillia, eastbound Ukraine, killed astatine slightest 2 people, wounded 22 others and caused wide harm connected Wednesday, the determination governor, Vadym Filashkin, said. Filashkin said the gathering was struck by a 500kg (1,100-pound) weaponry astatine 5:20pm (14:20 GMT).
• Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, arsenic good arsenic 1 ballistic missile, connected Wednesday night, the Ukrainian aerial unit said. The strikes targeted the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, the cardinal metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, Vinnytsia successful the west, and Odesa successful the south.
• A Ukrainian drone killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured six others successful the Russian metropolis of Belgorod, and injured 1 idiosyncratic successful a colony northeast of the city, the determination governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught injured 1 idiosyncratic successful Russia’s occidental Smolensk region, the determination governor, Vasily Anokhin, said.
• Russian forces changeable down 3 Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow aboriginal connected Thursday, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said connected Telegram. Sobyanin made nary notation of casualties oregon damage.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its aerial defence units destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones successful a three-and-a-half-hour play ending astatine 11:30pm (20:30 GMT).

Weaponry

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Wednesday that his state would question to nutrient astatine slightest fractional of its weaponry astatine location wrong six months of his caller government. “The accumulation volumes are genuinely large, but we request more,” Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video address.

• Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa said his state had nary plans to transportation United States-purchased Patriot aerial defence systems to Ukraine successful effect to a reporter’s question astatine the White House.

Diplomacy, authorities and aid

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is acceptable to conscionable British Prime Minister Keir Starmer connected Thursday successful London for talks that are expected to absorption heavy connected the warfare successful Ukraine. The 2 leaders are expected to motion a wide-ranging relationship pact that volition see a communal assistance clause that a German authorities official, quoted by the Reuters quality agency, described arsenic “highly significant” successful airy of Russia’s invasion.
•  The European Commission connected Wednesday projected the constitution of a money of up to 100 cardinal euros ($115bn), arsenic portion of what EU fund commissioner Piotr Serafin described arsenic a  “long-term committedness to Ukraine’s betterment and reconstruction”.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies