Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,242 of Russia’s conflict 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 particular person in a single day and wounded six others, together with six kids, officers mentioned.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Russian forces launched “greater than 300 strike drones and over 30 missiles” towards Ukrainian cities throughout the in a single day assault.
- The assaults additionally broken vital 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, mentioned early on Sunday that Russian air defences downed at the least 15 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned early on Sunday that its air defence items destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones, together with 21 over the Bryansk area, on the Ukrainian border.
- This got here hours after the ministry mentioned its air defence items 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 below a Ukrainian drone assault, which injured one railway employee.
- The performing governor of the Rostov area, on Ukraine’s japanese border, mentioned Ukrainian drones had additionally triggered fires and knocked down energy strains.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine despatched Russia a proposal providing a brand new spherical of peace talks to happen subsequent week, after negotiations stalled final month.
- Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deporting Ukrainians to Georgia and leaving them stranded there with out correct paperwork, a whole bunch of miles from their residence. He mentioned Ukraine has introduced again 43 individuals to this point, however extra individuals stay in “troublesome circumstances” on the border.
- Earlier, Volunteers Tbilisi, an assist group, mentioned at the least 56 Ukrainians, principally prisoners who accomplished their sentences and have been subsequently ordered to depart Russia, have been being held in “inhumane” circumstances in a basement close to the Russian-Georgian border.
- India mentioned 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.
