Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,227

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, July 5 :

Fighting

• Ukraine said it struck the Russian Borisoglebsk airbase successful the Voronezh region, describing it arsenic the “home base” of Russia’s Su-34, Su-35S and Su-30SM combatant jets.
• Russia fired 322 drones and decoys into Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s aerial unit said, with the occidental Khmelnytskyi portion the main people of the attack. Of these, 157 were changeable down and 135 were lost, the aerial unit said.
• Russian aerial defences person downed dozens of Ukrainian drones successful wide dispersed parts of the country, including 2 adjacent the country’s second-largest city, Saint Petersburg, according to officials.
• All outer powerfulness lines supplying energy to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic works successful Ukraine were down for respective hours earlier being restored, the UN atomic watchdog said.
• Ukrainian authorities blamed Russian shelling for the powerfulness cut, adding that technicians had to instrumentality enactment to reconstruct it.
• Dutch and German quality agencies say that Russia is expanding its usage of prohibited chemic weapons successful Ukraine, including the World War I-era poison state chloropicrin. Moscow denies this.

Weapons

• United States President Donald Trump said helium discussed sending Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine successful calls with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• A German authorities spokesperson said the state was exploring the anticipation of purchasing much Patriot aerial defence systems from the US for Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump said that helium discussed sanctions with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful a Thursday call, who is disquieted astir them and understands they mightiness beryllium forthcoming.
• The US president repeated that helium was “very unhappy” with his Russian counterpart, adding: “He wants to spell each the way, conscionable support sidesplitting radical – it is nary good.”
• Zelenskyy says helium agreed with Trump, to enactment to fortify Ukraine’s aerial defences, arsenic concerns mounted successful Kyiv implicit US subject assistance deliveries. The 2 leaders had a “very important and fruitful conversation” by telephone connected Friday, Zelenskyy said.
• German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius volition question to Washington aboriginal this period for talks with his US counterpart astir aerial defence systems, arsenic good arsenic accumulation capacities, the ministry said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies