Russia-Ukraine battle: Checklist of key occasions, day 1,259

Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,259 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here is how issues stand on Wednesday, August 6:

Preventing

Russian forces launched assaults on six settlements in Ukraine’s Kharkiv area, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov stated, with three folks killed and 10 injured within the village of Lyman and the city of Vovchansk.
Russian forces additionally shelled a railway station within the city of Lozova, killing an obligation mechanic. 4 different railway employees have been among the many 10 folks injured, Syniehubov stated.
Russian forces launched 431 air assaults on 16 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, killing 4 folks and wounding three others, Governor Ivan Fedorov stated.
A Ukrainian drone assault killed 4 staff of the water utility within the district of Svatovsky, within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area, in keeping with the area’s Russia-installed governor, Leonid Pasechnik. The pinnacle of the area’s well being service, quoted by Russia’s state-run TASS information company, later stated {that a} fifth employee wounded within the strike had died in hospital.

TASS additionally reported {that a} 30-year-old man was killed and a 51-year-old girl was injured in a Ukrainian drone assault on a automotive close to the Russian-occupied village of Nyzhnia Duvanka within the Svatovsky district on Monday.
Ukraine’s army intelligence claimed that Ukrainian forces killed 334 Russian troops and wounded greater than 550, in a failed assault on Ukraine’s Sumy area. Al Jazeera was not capable of confirm the report.
Ukraine’s presidential chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, stated on Telegram that Kyiv has discovered parts from India in Russian drones used for assaults on Ukraine. Al Jazeera couldn’t independently confirm the data.

Sweden, Norway and Denmark will collectively contribute about 5 billion Norwegian crowns ($486.16m) to purchase US weapons for Ukraine, the Norwegian authorities stated in a press release.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged the promised funding, saying that Ukraine had secured an “further $500 million from our associates in Northern Europe: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” for US weapons.
The US Division of State accredited the potential sale of restore and sustainment help for M777 howitzer artillery weapons, and transportation and consolidation companies to Ukraine from BAE Techniques and different United States contractors for an estimated whole of $203.5m, the Pentagon stated.

The German air drive will station 5 Eurofighter fight plane in Poland for a number of weeks, in response to a Polish request, an air drive spokesman instructed Germany’s DPA information company. The Kyiv Impartial information outlet reported that the transfer was a deterrent forward of joint Russian-Belarusian army drills.
Lithuania’s Ministry of International Affairs has written to the NATO army alliance asking it to assist strengthen its air defences, after two army drones crossed into its territory from Belarus final month.

Zelenskyy stated he had a “productive dialog” with US President Donald Trump, “with the important thing focus after all being ending the battle”.
Trump instructed CNBC information that declining power costs may strain Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt Moscow’s battle in Ukraine.
“If power goes down sufficient, Putin goes to cease killing folks,” Trump stated. “In case you get power down, one other $10 a barrel, he’s going to haven’t any selection as a result of his financial system stinks.”