Because the struggle enters its 860th day, these are the primary developments.
Right here is the scenario on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
Preventing
- A minimum of 5 individuals had been killed and dozens injured in a Russian missile and drone assault on the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro.
- A minimum of one particular person was killed and 14 injured in a sequence of Russian assaults that struck Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv area, together with the regional capital of Kharkiv, the nation’s second-largest metropolis.
- A minimum of one particular person was killed and three injured in a Russian missile assault on Ukraine’s Poltava area. Regional governor Filip Pronin stated one particular person was in important situation.
- The United Nations human rights workplace (OHCHR) stated Russia’s use of air-dropped bombs led to extra civilian casualties in Ukraine between March and Might. OHCHR discovered that the Russian offensive within the Kharkiv area from Might 10 to 31 killed 78 civilians and injured 305 extra. Between March and Might, not less than 436 civilians had been killed and 1,760 injured in Ukraine, in keeping with the company.
- Moscow-appointed officers on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in Ukraine stated a Ukrainian drone assault on a close-by electrical energy substation injured eight staff and left the plant’s dormitory city of Enerhodar with out energy and water.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated its forces destroyed two Ukrainian sea drones concentrating on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a key naval base and hub for oil shipments. No casualties or injury had been reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- A navy court docket in Moscow jailed three brothers for treason for attempting to cross into Ukraine to hitch a unit of Russians combating on Kyiv’s aspect. Ioann Ashcheulov, 24, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years whereas his brothers – Alexei, 20, and Timofey, 19 – had been handed 17 years, Russian state media reported.
- A court docket in Rostov-on-Don discovered a 19-year-old man responsible of treason for allegedly donating cash to Kyiv’s navy and sentenced him to 12 years in jail.
- A court docket in Saint Petersburg greater than doubled the sentence for activist and documentary filmmaker Vsevolod Korolev to seven years after he and the prosecutors appealed his authentic jail time period of three years for criticising the Russian offensive in opposition to Ukraine on social media. Korolev has been in pre-trial detention since July 2022,
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese language President Xi Jinping mentioned Ukraine once they met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Astana, and agreed that peace talks on Ukraine with out Russia’s presence had been pointless.
- Additionally assembly on the SCO sidelines, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan advised Putin that Ankara might assist finish the battle, however Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Erdogan couldn’t play the position of an middleman. He didn’t say why.
- The Netherlands’ new Prime Minister Dick Schoof assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy throughout a cellphone name that his nation’s help for Ukraine would stay “rock stable”.
- Ukrainian Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated he mentioned bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on “numerous regional and international threats posed by Russia, Iran and North Korea” with Israeli counterpart Israel Katz.
Weapons
- America introduced $150m in new navy help for Ukraine. The package deal consists of missiles for HAWK air defence programs, ammunition for Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket Programs (HIMARS), 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, 81mm mortar rounds, TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) missiles, Javelin and AT-4 antiarmour programs, in addition to a variety of different small arms ammunition and gear.
- NATO allies agreed to fund navy assist for Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43bn) subsequent yr, two Western European diplomats advised the Reuters information company, per week earlier than the alliance’s leaders are set to fulfill in Washington.
- The Czech Ministry of Defence stated that the nation had donated gear from its military storage, together with plane and ammunition, value 6.75 billion crowns ($288.42m) to Ukraine as of the tip of Might.
