Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,258

Here is however things basal connected Tuesday, August 5:

Fighting

• Three radical were killed successful a Russian onslaught connected the Stepnohirsk assemblage successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, the section subject medication said connected Telegram. Russia launched 405 attacks connected 10 settlements successful the portion successful the past day, the medication said connected Monday.
• Russian drone attacks killed 3 radical successful the Chuhuiv territory of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the determination prosecutor’s bureau said. The victims included a antheral killed erstwhile Russian drones caused a occurrence successful his location successful the colony of Losivka, and a antheral and a pistillate who were riding a motorcycle erstwhile they were killed. The prosecutor’s bureau said it was investigating the motorcycle onslaught arsenic a imaginable warfare crime.
• Russian attacks crossed Ukraine’s Kherson portion killed 1 idiosyncratic and damaged homes, cars and a state pipeline, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. A antheral who was injured by artillery shelling connected the municipality of Beryslav connected July 27 besides passed distant owed to his injuries, Prokudin added.
• Russian attacks killed 1 idiosyncratic successful Dobropillya metropolis successful the Pokrovsky portion and different idiosyncratic successful Kostiantynivka city, successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said.
• Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) claimed that Ukrainian drones deed 5 Russian combatant jets astatine Saky airfield successful Russian-occupied Crimea, destroying 1 of them.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and African countries are warring with Russian forces successful the Vovchansk country of Kharkiv successful northeastern Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s wide unit acknowledged that it was liable for a drone attack that caused a occurrence astatine a substance depot of Sochi airdrome successful confederate Russia connected Sunday.

Military aid

• The Netherlands volition lend 500 cardinal euros ($578m) to bargain US subject instrumentality for Ukraine, including Patriot aerial defence strategy parts and missiles. The acquisition volition marque the Netherlands the archetypal state to enactment successful a caller strategy wherever NATO countries money US weapons to nonstop to Kyiv.

Sanctions

• India’s Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said successful a connection that the United States and European Union’s “targeting” of the federation for importing lipid from Russia aft Moscow’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine was “unjustified and unreasonable”.
• Stephen Miller, lawman main of unit astatine the White House, said earlier connected Fox News: “What helium [US President Donald Trump] said precise intelligibly is that it is not acceptable for India to proceed financing this warfare by purchasing the lipid from Russia.”
• Trump said helium would “substantially” summation tariffs connected India for what helium said was the buying and reselling of “massive amounts” of Russian lipid “for large profits”.

Ceasefire talks

• Trump said his peculiar envoy, Steve Witkoff, would again sojourn Russia to proceed talks connected its warfare successful Ukraine.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russian Former President Dmitry Medvedev said that Moscow’s abandonment of a moratorium connected medium- and short-range atomic missiles was “the effect of NATO countries’ anti-Russian policy”, successful a station connected X.
• The trial has begun successful the March 22, 2024, shooting onslaught successful a Moscow performance hallway that killed 149 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, without providing evidence, that Ukraine was progressive successful the attack, an allegation Kyiv vehemently denies.

Corruption

• Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said successful a connection that it had charged six people, including a lawmaker and a authorities official, progressive successful “systematically misappropriat[ing] funds allocated by section authorities for defence needs”, including funds meant for the acquisition of drones and jamming instrumentality for the military.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies