Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,259 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Wednesday, August 6:
Preventing
- Russian forces launched assaults on six settlements in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov mentioned, with three individuals killed and 10 injured within the village of Lyman and the city of Vovchansk.
- Russian forces additionally shelled a railway station within the city of Lozova, killing an obligation mechanic. 4 different railway staff have been among the many 10 individuals injured, Syniehubov mentioned.
- Russian forces launched 431 air assaults on 16 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, killing 4 individuals and wounding three others, Governor Ivan Fedorov mentioned.
- A Ukrainian drone assault killed 4 staff of the water utility within the district of Svatovsky, within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area, in response to the area’s Russia-installed governor, Leonid Pasechnik. The pinnacle of the area’s well being service, quoted by Russia’s state-run TASS information company, later mentioned {that a} fifth employee wounded within the strike had died in hospital.
- TASS additionally reported {that a} 30-year-old man was killed and a 51-year-old lady was injured in a Ukrainian drone assault on a automotive close to the Russian-occupied village of Nyzhnia Duvanka within the Svatovsky district on Monday.
- Ukraine’s army intelligence claimed that Ukrainian forces killed 334 Russian troops and wounded greater than 550, in a failed assault on Ukraine’s Sumy area. Al Jazeera was not capable of confirm the report.
- Ukraine’s presidential chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, mentioned on Telegram that Kyiv has discovered elements from India in Russian drones used for assaults on Ukraine. Al Jazeera couldn’t independently confirm the knowledge.
Army assist
- Sweden, Norway and Denmark will collectively contribute about 5 billion Norwegian crowns ($486.16m) to purchase US weapons for Ukraine, the Norwegian authorities mentioned in a press release.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged the promised funding, saying that Ukraine had secured an “extra $500 million from our pals in Northern Europe: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” for US weapons.
- The US Division of State accepted the potential sale of restore and sustainment help for M777 howitzer artillery weapons, and transportation and consolidation companies to Ukraine from BAE Techniques and different United States contractors for an estimated complete of $203.5m, the Pentagon mentioned.
Regional safety
- The German air pressure will station 5 Eurofighter fight plane in Poland for a number of weeks, in response to a Polish request, an air pressure spokesman advised Germany’s DPA information company. The Kyiv Impartial information outlet reported that the transfer was a deterrent forward of joint Russian-Belarusian army drills.
- Lithuania’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs has written to the NATO army alliance asking it to assist strengthen its air defences, after two army drones crossed into its territory from Belarus final month.
Ceasefire and sanctions
- Zelenskyy mentioned he had a “productive dialog” with US President Donald Trump, “with the important thing focus in fact being ending the struggle”.
- Trump advised CNBC information that declining power costs might strain Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt Moscow’s struggle in Ukraine.
- “If power goes down sufficient, Putin goes to cease killing individuals,” Trump mentioned. “Should you get power down, one other $10 a barrel, he’s going to don’t have any alternative as a result of his financial system stinks.”