Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,254

Here is however things basal connected Friday, August 1:

Fighting

• Russia launched waves of missiles and drones astatine Kyiv earlier dawn connected Thursday, sidesplitting 16 people, including 2 children, and wounding much than 100 others, officials successful the Ukrainian superior said. Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed it targeted and deed Ukrainian subject airfields and ammunition depots arsenic good arsenic businesses linked to what it called Kyiv’s military-industrial complex.
• Russia claimed to person taken afloat power of the shattered municipality of Chasiv Yar successful eastbound Ukraine aft astir 16 months of fighting, an assertion which Kyiv dismissed arsenic “propaganda”.
• Ukrainian drones, operated by the authorities information bureau SBU, struck an electronics works which produces combat power systems for the Russian subject successful the occidental Russian metropolis of Penza.

Military aid

• A almighty United States Senate committee has approved a subject spending measure that includes astir $1bn to enactment Ukraine, contempt US President Donald Trump’s medication having asked Congress to destruct specified backing successful its fund request.

Ceasefire

• US peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff volition question to Russia aft his existent travel to Israel, President Trump said. Trump did not supply an itinerary for Witkoff, who has held extended ceasefire talks successful Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful the past.
• Trump has sharply criticised Russia’s “disgusting” behaviour against Ukraine and said helium plans to enforce sanctions connected Moscow if nary statement tin beryllium reached connected a ceasefire. The US president has fixed Putin until August 8 to scope a woody to halt the fighting.
• The US reiterated its Ukraine warfare ceasefire deadline to the United Nations Security Council, with elder US diplomat John Kelley telling the 15-member assembly that “both Russia and Ukraine indispensable negociate a ceasefire and durable peace”. Kelley said: “It is clip to marque a deal. President Trump has made wide this indispensable beryllium done by August 8. The United States is prepared to instrumentality further measures to unafraid peace”.
• Trump besides told Dmitry Medvedev to “watch his words” aft the lawman president of Russia’s Security Council said Washington’s threats of hitting Moscow and buyers of its lipid with punitive tariffs were “a crippled of ultimatums” and a measurement person towards a warfare betwixt Russia and the US.
• In response, the erstwhile Russian president said Trump should retrieve that Moscow possessed Soviet-era atomic onslaught capabilities of past resort.

Ukrainian affairs

• Ukraine’s parliament voted to reconstruct the independency of 2 cardinal anticorruption agencies, moving to defuse the country’s biggest governmental crisis since Russia’s invasion.
• Lawmakers voted 331 to 0 successful favour of the bill, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted past week pursuing unit from thousands of protesters and apical European officials to reverse people connected the issue.

Regional developments

• Chinese naval vessels person steamed into Russia’s acold eastbound larboard of Vladivostok successful beforehand of associated drills scheduled from August 1-5.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies