Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,248

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Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,248 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Published On 26 Jul 2025

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, July 26:

Fighting

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were facing fierce warring around the metropolis of Pokrovsk successful the country’s east, a logistics hub adjacent wherever Russia’s subject has been announcing the near-daily seizure of Ukrainian villages.
Ukraine’s apical commander, Oleksandr Syrskii, described Pokrovsk and 5 different sectors arsenic among the astir hard theatres of warfare on the 1,000km (620-mile) beforehand with Russia.
Earlier connected Friday, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced the seizure of 2 villages connected either broadside of Pokrovsk – Zvirove to the westbound and Novoekonomichne to the east. A 3rd colony – Novotoretske – adjacent Pokrovsk was declared “liberated” by Moscow earlier this week.
President Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were besides “continuing to act” successful borderline areas successful the bluish Sumy region, wherever Russian troops person gained a foothold successful caller weeks.
According to the fashionable Ukrainian subject blog DeepState, Kyiv’s forces person retaken the antecedently mislaid colony of Kindrativka successful Sumy.
Moscow is trying to found successful Sumy what Russia’s President Vladimir Putin calls a “buffer zone” betwixt Russia and Ukraine.

Zelenskyy has toured a section mill producing interceptor drones, progressively seen arsenic a solution to protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian aerial attacks, and said a extremity had been acceptable to marque up to 1,000 of the weapons each day. He said interceptor drones had proved businesslike astatine downing waves of Russian onslaught drones.
Zelenskyy besides said his state was moving to unafraid planetary backing for 10 Patriot aerial defence systems, pursuing a woody that allows European states to bargain weaponry from the United States and donate it to Kyiv.
The US announced that it is providing a $4bn indebtedness warrant for the acquisition of American subject instrumentality by Poland, which borders some Russia and war-torn Ukraine.
Russia’s lone craft carrier, the 40-year-old Admiral Kuznetsov, is apt to beryllium sold oregon scrapped, the president of Russia’s authorities shipbuilding corp Andrei Kostin told the Kommersant newspaper.

US President Donald Trump said helium is looking astatine secondary sanctions connected Russia amid the warfare successful Ukraine.
Acting US ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, urged each countries, specifically naming China, to halt exports to Russia of dual-use goods that Washington says lend to Russia’s concern basal and alteration its drone and rocket attacks connected Ukraine.
In response, China’s lawman UN ambassador, Geng Shuang, said China did not commencement the warfare successful Ukraine, is not a enactment to the conflict, has ne'er provided lethal weapons, and has ever “strictly controlled dual-use materials, including the export of drones”. Geng besides urged the US to “stop shifting blame” successful the conflict.

The European Parliament is considering proposals to velocity up the European Union’s phasing retired of Russian state by 1 year, to January 2027, the Reuters quality bureau reported, arsenic officials successful Brussels hole to negociate a legally-binding ban.
Russia-backed Indian lipid refiner Nayara Energy has named Sergey Denisov arsenic its caller main executive, aft the firm’s erstwhile CEO, Alessandro des Dorides, resigned pursuing European Union sanctions that targeted the company, Reuters reports.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said helium whitethorn talk to Trump and President Putin this week to spot if a leaders’ gathering successful Istanbul is imaginable to sermon a ceasefire successful Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said a acme betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy could lone hap arsenic a last measurement to seal a bid deal, adding that it was improbable that specified a gathering could hap by the extremity of August, arsenic Ukraine had proposed.

Ukraine’s apical anticorruption researcher Semen Kryvonos said helium did not expect attempts to derail his agency’s enactment to end, contempt an abrupt U-turn by Zelenskyy connected curbing the independency of 2 anticorruption agencies that fuelled rare wartime protests. Kryvonos said helium was taken aback by those attempts.
Trump said helium would similar to support the limits connected US and Russian strategical atomic weapons deployments acceptable successful the 2010 New START agreement, which expires successful February. Trump made the comments arsenic helium exited the White House connected a travel to Scotland.

Georgia hosted large multinational subject exercises with NATO troops, contempt its authorities facing increasing accusations of drifting distant from a pro-Western way and edging person to Russia’s orbit amid the warfare successful Ukraine.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies