Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,242 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
That is how issues stand on Sunday, July 20:
Combating
- Russian forces launched a missile assault on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, killing two individuals and damaging “an outpatient clinic, a college and a cultural establishment”, in line with the central area’s governor, Serhiy Lysak.
- One other Russian missile assault on the Black Sea port of Odesa killed at the least one individual in a single day and wounded six others, together with six kids, officers stated.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russian forces launched “greater than 300 strike drones and over 30 missiles” in opposition to Ukrainian cities in the course of the in a single day assault.
- The assaults additionally broken crucial infrastructure within the Sumy area, “leaving a number of thousand households with out electrical energy”, the Ukrainian president added.
- In Russia, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, stated early on Sunday that Russian air defences downed at the least 15 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated early on Sunday that its air defence models destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones, together with 21 over the Bryansk area, on the Ukrainian border.
- This got here hours after the ministry stated its air defence models shot down six missiles and 349 drones over Russian territory on Saturday.
- Earlier, Russia needed to droop trains for about 4 hours in a single day within the southern Rostov area when it got here beneath a Ukrainian drone assault, which injured one railway employee.
- The appearing governor of the Rostov area, on Ukraine’s japanese border, stated Ukrainian drones had additionally induced fires and knocked down energy traces.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy stated Ukraine sent Russia a proposal providing a brand new spherical of peace talks to happen subsequent week, after negotiations stalled final month.
- Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deporting Ukrainians to Georgia and leaving them stranded there with out correct paperwork, tons of of miles from their house. He stated Ukraine has introduced again 43 individuals to this point, however extra individuals stay in “troublesome situations” on the border.
- Earlier, Volunteers Tbilisi, an help group, stated at the least 56 Ukrainians, principally prisoners who accomplished their sentences and have been subsequently ordered to go away Russia, have been being held in “inhumane” situations in a basement close to the Russian-Georgian border.
- India stated it didn’t assist “unilateral sanctions” by the European Union, after Brussels imposed penalties on Russia that included a Rosneft oil refinery within the western Indian state of Gujarat.
