Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,223

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, July 1:

Fighting

• The Russian-installed politician of the occupied Luhansk region successful eastbound Ukraine, Leonid Pasechnik, said that Russian troops are present successful afloat power of the full region.
• If confirmed, that would marque Luhansk the archetypal Ukrainian portion afloat occupied by Russia aft much than 3 years of war. Luhansk is 1 of 4 regions that Russia present claims arsenic its own.
• Russia’s authorities media and warfare bloggers besides said that Russian forces person taken power of the archetypal colony successful the cardinal Ukrainian portion of Dnipropetrovsk.
• This came arsenic Moscow-appointed officials said Ukrainian forces attacked the metropolis of Donetsk successful the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 person, damaging respective buildings and mounting a marketplace connected fire.
• Also successful Donetsk, Russian forces person occupied 1 of Ukraine’s astir invaluable lithium deposits adjacent the colony of Shevchenko, The Kyiv Independent reported, citing Roman Pohorilyi, the laminitis of the open-source mapping task Deep State Map.
• The Ukrainian Air Force, meanwhile, said it detected 107 Russian Shahed and decoy drones successful the country’s airspace overnight, a time aft the state experienced the biggest aerial attack from Russian forces since 2022.
• Russian strikes successful Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv portion near 2 civilians dormant and 8 wounded, including a 6-year-old child, determination Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
• Outside the contiguous region, Bloomberg reported an detonation connected an lipid tanker adjacent Libya, successful the latest unexplained blast connected vessels that had antecedently called astatine Russian ports.

Politics and diplomacy

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov urged the United States to see whether caller sanctions connected Russia would assistance the Ukraine bid effort aft a apical Republican legislator said helium had received US President Donald Trump’s blessing to determination guardant connected a measure introducing punitive measures against Moscow.
• US envoy Keith Kellogg responded to Peskov’s comments, describing them arsenic “Orwellian”. “Russia cannot proceed to stall for clip portion it bombs civilian targets successful Ukraine,” Kellogg said successful a station connected X.
• German Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul, speaking during a sojourn to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making “pure mockery” of bid talks.
• “His evident readiness to negociate is lone a facade truthful far,” Wadephul said, adding that Germany was trying to assistance Ukraine get to a constituent wherever it could “negotiate much strongly”.
• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Moscow was introducing “reciprocal measures” restricting entree to 15 media outlets from the European Union, successful retaliation for the latest circular of EU sanctions connected Russia.
• In North Korea, images connected authorities tv showed person Kim Jong Un draping coffins with the country’s nationalist emblem successful what appeared to beryllium the repatriation of soldiers killed warring for Russia against Ukraine, according to the Reuters quality agency.
• Norway said it would deploy F-35 combatant jets to Poland to support Polish airspace and a cardinal logistical hub for assistance to Ukraine, a time aft Warsaw scrambled craft successful effect to Russian aerial attacks connected occidental Ukraine, adjacent the border.

Economy

• The International Monetary Fund said it would supply $500m to Ukraine, aft completing a regular reappraisal of its $15.5bn four-year enactment programme.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies