Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,236

Here is however things basal connected Monday, July 14:

Fighting:

• Russian drone attacks killed a 53-year-old Ukrainian antheral successful Ukraine’s Sumy portion and near parts of the metropolis of Sumy without power, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing section authorities.
• Ukraine’s SBU quality work said it killed respective Russian concealed work agents during an cognition to apprehension them successful the Kyiv portion connected Sunday. The SBU said it believed the agents were down the sidesplitting of its colonel, Ivan Voronych, successful Kyiv connected Thursday.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces person captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne successful Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk region.
• The United Nations’s atomic watchdog reported proceeding hundreds of rounds of tiny arms occurrence precocious connected Saturday astatine Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which is occupied by Russian forces. The bureau described the shots arsenic antithetic and said that it was seeking further accusation astir the incident.

Weapons

• United States President Donald Trump said Washington would nonstop Patriot aerial defence systems to Ukraine, without specifying however many, conscionable 2 weeks aft Washington said it would intermission immoderate arms deliveries for Kyiv. “I haven’t agreed connected the fig yet, but they’re going to person immoderate due to the fact that they bash request protection,” helium told reporters.
• Top Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a cardinal Trump ally, told the CBS News broadcaster that helium expects an influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine to statesman soon. “The game… is astir to change,” helium said. “I expect, successful the coming days, you volition spot weapons flowing astatine a grounds level to assistance Ukraine support themselves.”

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his authorities is preparing to person Trump’s peculiar envoy, Keith Kellogg, successful Kyiv connected Monday and said: “We number connected the United States afloat knowing what tin beryllium done to compel Russia to peace.”
• Zelenskyy besides said Russian forces launched much than 1,800 long-range drones, much than 1,200 glide bombs and 83 missiles of assorted types astatine Ukraine successful the past week.
• Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, successful Beijing connected Sunday and “discussed relations with the United States and prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis”, according to Moscow.
• French President Emmanuel Macron called for a monolithic boost to France’s defence spending, saying that state successful Europe is facing a greater menace than astatine immoderate clip since the extremity of World War II.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies