Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,255

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, August 2:

Fighting

• Ukrainian rescuers recovered much than a twelve much bodies from the rubble of a collapsed flat artifact successful Kyiv overnight, bringing the decease toll from Thursday’s onslaught by Russia to 31.
• A two-year-old was among 5 children recovered dormant arsenic a effect of what is present Russia’s worst aerial onslaught of the twelvemonth connected Ukraine’s capital, which besides injured 159 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said arsenic helium announced the extremity of a much than 24-hour-long rescue cognition astatine the site.
• Russia launched much than 3,800 drones and astir 260 missiles for its attacks connected Ukraine passim July, Zelenskyy said.

Military aid

• NATO countries, Ukraine and the United States are processing a caller mechanics that volition absorption connected getting US weapons to Ukraine from the Priority Ukraine Requirements List, known nether the acronym PURL, the Reuters quality bureau reports, citing 3 sources acquainted with the matter.
• As portion of the PURL mechanism, Ukraine would prioritise the weapons it needs successful tranches of astir $500m, and NATO allies would past negociate among themselves who would donate oregon wage for items connected the list.
• Germany said it volition present 2 Patriot rocket defence systems to Ukraine aft reaching an statement with the US that Berlin volition beryllium archetypal successful enactment to person the latest Patriot systems to replenish the weapons donated to Kyiv.
• A apical advisor to President Zelenskyy said Russia is providing North Korea with exertion for Shahed-type onslaught drones and assisting successful their production.

Ceasefire

• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Zelenskyy welcomed US President Donald Trump’s caller deadline for Russia to marque advancement towards ending its much than three-year-long warfare connected Ukraine. Zelenskyy said helium had discussed with Starmer the imaginable formats for a acme of leaders to sermon bid successful Ukraine.
• Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Moscow hoped for much bid talks with Ukraine but that the momentum of the warfare was successful Moscow’s favour, signalling nary displacement successful his stance contempt a looming sanctions deadline issued by Trump. Putin besides said that the archetypal batch of mass-produced Oreshnik ballistic rocket systems had been delivered to the Russian army.
• In a station connected X responding to Putin’s remarks, Zelenskyy repeated his willingness to beryllium down with the Russian leader, saying Ukraine wants to “move beyond” statements and lower-level meetings connected the matter.
• “If these are signals of a genuine willingness to extremity the warfare with dignity and found a genuinely lasting bid … past Ukraine erstwhile again reaffirms its readiness to conscionable astatine the level of leaders astatine immoderate time,” Zelenskyy said.

Regional developments

• President Trump said helium had ordered 2 atomic submarines to beryllium positioned successful “the due regions” successful effect to remarks from the erstwhile Russian president and lawman president of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, about the hazard of warfare betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed countries.
• Europe indispensable commencement seeing Ukraine arsenic a European country, and the Ukrainian subject arsenic a European army, Ilya Yashin, a salient Russian absorption activist, said successful Belgrade.
• “The Ukrainian service is not lone protecting Ukraine, it is protecting Europe from Russian aggression,” Yashin told hundreds of Russians who present unrecorded successful Serbia.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies