Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,247

On Friday, July 25, 2018, the situation is as follows:

Fighting

After a few direct negotiations between the two sides in Istanbul, neither side was successful in putting an end to the nearly three-and-a-half years of conflict. Now, Ukraine and Russia have attacked targets on each other’s territory.
• 103 drones and four missiles were launched by Russia during its overnight attack, according to Ukrainian deputy prime minister Oleksii Kuleba, which hit civilian infrastructure like ports, transportation centers, and residential areas.
• Following the most recent in a line of widespread drone attacks on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa, four people were killed and four others were hurt. The UNESCO World Heritage site’s historic center was also damaged by the attack, which also resulted in several fires.
• According to officials, Russian glide bombs struck a residential neighbourhood in Kharkiv, the second-largest city in the northeast of Ukraine, killing at least two people and injuring at least 33 others.
• In a drone attack that targeted Moscow’s forces near Ukraine’s Sumy region on the northern border with Russia, one person was killed.
• Additionally, Russia attacked Cherkasy overnight, injuring seven people, including a nine-year-old child, and causing damage to more than a dozen residential apartment buildings.
• A woman was killed in the Adler district near the resort city of Sochi when a drone-caused accident in Russia’s Krasnodar region on the Black Sea. A second woman was receiving treatment for her serious injuries in a hospital.
• Without providing further information, the administrative head of the Sirius federal district, which is located south of Sochi, claimed a drone struck an oil terminal. Additionally, the Russian aviation authority reported that Sochi Airport operations had been suspended for about four hours.
• According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, state news agency RIA Novosti, Russian forces are making every effort to establish buffer zones along the Ukrainian border.

military assistance

• According to the Pentagon, potential military sales to Ukraine, including air defense, have been approved by the US Department of State for $ 30 million.
• Despite US threats to impose sanctions on any organization supporting Russia’s Ukraine war effort, an Indian company called Ideal Detonators Private Limited (IDP) sent $1.4 million worth of an explosive compound with military uses to Russia in December, according to Indian customs data obtained by the Reuters news agency.

diplomacy and politics

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president, has accused Russia of rejecting a call for an immediate and complete ceasefire. Russian drones targeted Ukrainian residential buildings instead of agreeing to a truce, he claimed.
• According to RIA reporting, it was unclear how Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet with Zelenskyy before August. A Ukrainian official earlier suggested that Kyiv had requested a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting in August, within the US’s 50-day deadline for reaching a ceasefire agreement.

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