Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,242

On Sunday, July 20, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• According to the governor of the central region, Serhiy Lysak, Russian forces launched a missile attack on the region of Dnipropetrovsk, killing two people and causing damage to “an outpatient clinic, a school, and a cultural institution.”
• At least one person was killed overnight in a further Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa, according to officials, along with six other people, including six children.
• During the overnight attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian forces had launched “more than 300 strike drones and over 30 missiles” against Ukrainian cities.
• The Sumy region’s critical infrastructure was also damaged by the attacks, according to the Ukrainian president, “leaving several thousand families without electricity.”
• Russian Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported early on Sunday that Russian air defenses had shot at least 15 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital.
• Early on Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its air defense units had shot down 40 Ukrainian drones, of which 21 were over the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border.
• The ministry announced this on Saturday, shortly after its air defense units shot down 349 drones and six missiles over Russian territory.
• One railroad worker was seriously injured in a previous incident in which Russia had to suspend trains in the southern Rostov region for about four hours overnight after a Ukrainian drone attack.
• Ukrainian drones, according to the acting governor of the Rostov region on Ukraine’s eastern border, also started fires and down power lines.

diplomacy and politics

After negotiations stalled last month, Zelenskyy claimed that after sending a proposal to Russia, a new round of peace talks should take place next week.
• Andrii Sybiha, the foreign minister of Ukraine, claimed that Russia had deported Ukrainians to Georgia and left them stranded there, hundreds of miles away from their homes, without proper documentation. He claimed that despite the fact that 43 people have been returned to Ukraine so far, more are still living in “difficult conditions” at the border.
• At least 56 Ukrainians are being held in “inhumane” conditions in a basement close to the Russian-Georgian border, according to an aid organization called Volunteers Tbilisi.
• After Brussels punished Russia with sanctions that included a Rosneft oil refinery in Gujarat, India said it did not support “unilateral sanctions” by the European Union.