Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,259 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Wednesday, August 6:
Combating
- Russian forces launched assaults on six settlements in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated, 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 stated.
- Russian forces launched 431 air assaults on 16 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, killing 4 individuals and wounding three others, Governor Ivan Fedorov stated.
- A Ukrainian drone assault killed 4 staff of the water utility within the district of Svatovsky, within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area, in keeping with the area’s Russia-installed governor, Leonid Pasechnik. The top of the area’s well being service, quoted by Russia’s state-run TASS information company, later stated {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 automobile close to the Russian-occupied village of Nyzhnia Duvanka within the Svatovsky district on Monday.
- Ukraine’s navy 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 in a position to confirm the report.
- Ukraine’s presidential chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, stated 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.
Navy assist
- Sweden, Norway and Denmark will collectively contribute about 5 billion Norwegian crowns ($486.16m) to purchase US weapons for Ukraine, the Norwegian authorities stated in an announcement.
- 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 authorized the potential sale of restore and sustainment help for M777 howitzer artillery weapons, and transportation and consolidation companies to Ukraine from BAE Methods and different United States contractors for an estimated whole of $203.5m, the Pentagon stated.
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 navy drills.
- Lithuania’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs has written to the NATO navy alliance asking it to assist strengthen its air defences, after two navy drones crossed into its territory from Belarus final month.
Ceasefire and sanctions
- Zelenskyy stated he had a “productive dialog” with US President Donald Trump, “with the important thing focus after all being ending the conflict”.
- Trump advised CNBC information that declining vitality costs might stress Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt Moscow’s conflict in Ukraine.
- “If vitality goes down sufficient, Putin goes to cease killing individuals,” Trump stated. “Should you get vitality down, one other $10 a barrel, he’s going to haven’t any selection as a result of his economic system stinks.”
