Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,259

Here is however things basal connected Wednesday, August 6:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched attacks connected six settlements successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, determination Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, with 3 radical killed and 10 injured successful the colony of Lyman and the municipality of Vovchansk.
• Russian forces besides shelled a railway presumption successful the municipality of Lozova, sidesplitting a work mechanic. Four different railway workers were among the 10 radical injured, Syniehubov said.
• Russian forces launched 431 aerial attacks connected 16 settlements successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, sidesplitting 4 radical and wounding 3 others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 4 employees of the h2o inferior successful the territory of Svatovsky, successful the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to the region’s Russia-installed governor, Leonid Pasechnik. The caput of the region’s wellness service, quoted by Russia’s state-run TASS quality agency, aboriginal said that a 5th idiosyncratic wounded successful the onslaught had died successful hospital.

• TASS besides reported that a 30-year-old antheral was killed and a 51-year-old pistillate was injured successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a car adjacent the Russian-occupied colony of Nyzhnia Duvanka successful the Svatovsky territory connected Monday.
• Ukraine’s subject quality claimed that Ukrainian forces killed 334 Russian troops and wounded much than 550, successful a failed onslaught connected Ukraine’s Sumy region. Al Jazeera was not capable to verify the report.
• Ukraine’s statesmanlike main of staff, Andriy Yermak, said connected Telegram that Kyiv has recovered components from India successful Russian drones utilized for attacks connected Ukraine. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the information.

Military aid

• Sweden, Norway and Denmark volition unneurotic lend astir 5 cardinal Norwegian crowns ($486.16m) to bargain US weapons for Ukraine, the Norwegian authorities said successful a statement.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged the promised funding, saying that Ukraine had secured an “additional $500 cardinal from our friends successful Northern Europe: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” for US weapons.
• The US Department of State approved the imaginable merchantability of repair and sustainment enactment for M777 howitzer artillery guns, and proscription and consolidation services to Ukraine from BAE Systems and different United States contractors for an estimated full of $203.5m, the Pentagon said.

Regional security

• The German aerial unit volition presumption 5 Eurofighter combat craft successful Poland for respective weeks, successful effect to a Polish request, an aerial unit spokesperson told Germany’s DPA quality agency. The Kyiv Independent quality outlet reported that the determination was a deterrent up of associated Russian-Belarusian subject drills.
• Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has written to the NATO subject confederation asking it to assistance fortify its aerial defences, aft 2 subject drones crossed into its territory from Belarus past month.

Ceasefire and sanctions

• Zelenskyy said helium had a “productive conversation” with US President Donald Trump, “with the cardinal absorption of people being ending the war”.
• Trump told CNBC quality that declining vigor prices could unit Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt Moscow’s warfare successful Ukraine.
• “If vigor goes down enough, Putin is going to halt sidesplitting people,” Trump said. “If you get vigor down, different $10 a barrel, he’s going to person nary prime due to the fact that his system stinks.”

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies