Listed here are the important thing occasions on day 1,238 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Wednesday, July 16:
Preventing
- A Russian assault on the Kupiansk district in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area killed two folks of their late 60s and injured two others, the regional prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on social media.
- A Russian artillery assault on the outskirts of the Velykopysarivska group in Ukraine’s Sumy area killed a 50-year-old resident, regional authorities mentioned.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence mentioned its troops had occupied the villages of Voskresenka and Petrivka in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area.
- A Ukrainian drone assault on Russia’s western metropolis of Voronezh wounded 27 folks, native officers mentioned. Town’s mayor, Sergei Petrin, mentioned a kindergarten was broken and kids had been being quickly transferred to neighbouring amenities.
- Russian air defence items destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over the Voronezh area, Governor Alexander Gusev mentioned on Telegram.
- A drone crashed in an industrial zone in Russia’s Yelets metropolis within the Lipetsk area, injuring one particular person, regional Governor Igor Artamonov mentioned on Telegram.
- The governor of Russia’s Bryansk area, Alexander Bogomaz, mentioned a lady was injured in a drone assault on the village of Sluchevsk.
- The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned on Telegram that its air defence items destroyed 55 Ukrainian drones in a single day throughout 5 Russian areas and the Black Sea.
Politics and diplomacy
- United States President Donald Trump advised reporters on the White Home that Ukraine “shouldn’t goal” the Russian capital Moscow, and that he was “on no one’s facet…I need to cease the killing”.
- Senior Russian safety official Dmitry Medvedev dismissed what he described as Trump’s “theatrical” 50-day “ultimatum” for the Kremlin to finish its warfare on Ukraine after the US president introduced a deal to supply more weapons to Kyiv through NATO, and threatened tariffs on Russia.
- Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Trump’s remarks on Monday had been “very severe”, including that “a few of them are addressed personally to President Putin”.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned that the US president’s “change of posture” in the direction of Russia was “clearly welcome”.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal introduced his resignation a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he was providing the job to Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. Shmyhal is anticipated to develop into Ukraine’s defence minister.
- The European Union didn’t approve a brand new spherical of sanctions on Russia after Slovakia requested a delay within the vote.
- The European Council has imposed sanctions on an extra 5 people “liable for severe violations or abuses of human rights and for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Russia”.
- US citizen Daniel Martindale, who lived in Ukraine and handed data to pro-Russian forces that helped to focus on Ukrainian troops, has acquired a Russian passport in Moscow.
Weapons
- A number of international locations, together with Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden, mentioned they’d participate within the US scheme for NATO member states to purchase US weapons to be used by Ukraine.
- Prime Minister Petr Fiala has mentioned the Czech Republic wouldn’t take part within the NATO weapons buy plan, including that his nation is targeted “on different tasks and paths” to assist Ukraine, together with “by the ammunition initiative”.
