Because the struggle enters its 860th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
Combating
- At the least 5 folks have been killed and dozens injured in a Russian missile and drone assault on the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro.
- At the least one individual 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.
- At the least one individual was killed and three injured in a Russian missile assault on Ukraine’s Poltava area. Regional governor Filip Pronin mentioned one individual was in important situation.
- The United Nations human rights workplace (OHCHR) mentioned Russia’s use of air-dropped bombs led to extra civilian casualties in Ukraine between March and Could. OHCHR discovered that the Russian offensive within the Kharkiv area from Could 10 to 31 killed 78 civilians and injured 305 extra. Between March and Could, no less than 436 civilians have been killed and 1,760 injured in Ukraine, in response to the company.
- Moscow-appointed officers on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in Ukraine mentioned a Ukrainian drone assault on a close-by electrical energy substation injured eight employees and left the plant’s dormitory city of Enerhodar with out energy and water.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned its forces destroyed two Ukrainian sea drones focusing on the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a key naval base and hub for oil shipments. No casualties or injury have been reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- A navy court docket in Moscow jailed three brothers for treason for making an attempt to cross into Ukraine to affix a unit of Russians combating on Kyiv’s facet. Ioann Ashcheulov, 24, was sentenced to 17-and-a-half years whereas his brothers – Alexei, 20, and Timofey, 19 – have 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 towards 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 after 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 have been pointless.
- Additionally assembly on the SCO sidelines, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan advised Putin that Ankara may assist finish the battle, however Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Erdogan couldn’t play the function of an middleman. He didn’t say why.
- The Netherlands’ new Prime Minister Dick Schoof assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy throughout a telephone name that his nation’s help for Ukraine would stay “rock stable”.
- Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned he mentioned bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on “numerous regional and world threats posed by Russia, Iran and North Korea” with Israeli counterpart Israel Katz.
Weapons
- The US introduced $150m in new navy help for Ukraine. The package deal contains missiles for HAWK air defence techniques, ammunition for Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket Methods (HIMARS), 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, 81mm mortar rounds, TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) missiles, Javelin and AT-4 antiarmour techniques, in addition to a variety of different small arms ammunition and gear.
- NATO allies agreed to fund navy support for Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43bn) subsequent yr, two Western European diplomats advised the Reuters information company, every week earlier than the alliance’s leaders are set to fulfill in Washington.
- The Czech Ministry of Defence mentioned 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 Could.
