Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,249

On Sunday, July 27, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• The administration of the region’s south in Russia reported on Sunday that falling debris from destroyed Ukrainian drones had an impact on train and rail power supplies in some areas of the Volgograd region. According to the administration, Governor Andrei Bocharov was quoted as saying on Telegram that there were no injuries as a result of the attacks.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense&nbsp reported that Russia had bombed 99 drones over 12 Russian regions, including the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea overnight.
• According to Ukrainian officials, Russia also launched a barrage of drones and missiles over the weekend that left three people dead in Dnipro and the surrounding area. The air force of Ukraine reported intercepting 183 drones and 17 missiles, but hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones were recorded in nine locations.
• According to the region’s governor, Oleg Melnichenko, drones have once more targeted Moscow, according to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, and an industrial complex in the Penza oblast southeast of the capital. According to regional governor Alexander Khinshtein, two people were killed by Ukrainian drones in the Rostov region and another two were killed in the country’s Kursk region along its border.
• The Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region and Maliivka inside the Dnipropetrovsk region were declared by Russia’s defense ministry on Saturday, along with two additional villages in eastern Ukraine.
• A SBU security service official told the Reuters news agency that Ukrainian drones attacked a radio and electronic warfare equipment plant in Russia’s Stavropol region on Saturday night during a routine attack. Each production-related attack “slows down” production and weakens the military might of the enemy. The official told the agency, “This work will continue.” On Sunday, attacks on the plant continued.

Weapons and military assistance

• The Indian company Ideal Detonators Private Limited, which shipped $1.4 million worth of the explosive compound octogen to Russia in December, announced on Saturday that it complies with Indian regulations and that the cargo was intended for civilian industrial purposes. Financial institutions should not encourage any sales of the substance to Moscow, according to the US government, which has declared the compound to be “critical for Russia’s war effort.”

Diplomacy

• As the two former allies of the communist bloc try to strengthen ties following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia announced that it would launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, on Sunday. Russian aviation blogs report that regular flights between the capitals have been running since the mid-1990s after the 10-day Moscow-Pyongyang passenger rail service was resumed in June.
• Pope Leo and Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, discussed the conflict in Ukraine on Saturday in an effort to sever ties between the two strained by Russia’s invasion.

Ceasefire