Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,257

On Monday, August 4, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• Governor Ivan Fedorov posted a message on Telegram saying three people were killed by a Russian attack in the southeast of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region on Sunday.
• According to Veniamin Kondratiev, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, a Ukrainian drone attack&nbsp sparked a significant fire at an oil depot in Sochi in southern Russia on Sunday. According to officials, the fire was put out shortly after 120 firefighters had been dispatched. During the fire, Rosaviatsia, Russia’s civil aviation authority, temporarily halted flights to the airport in Sochi.
• The Ukrainian military claims that it used drones to attack several Russian sites, including refineries, airports, and electronics plants.
• In a Ukrainian drone attack that resulted in several fires, the governor of the Voronezh region in southern Russia claimed four people were hurt.
• In the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, dozens of houses and apartments were damaged and injured by a Russian attack, according to Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych’s statement on Telegram early on Sunday.
• Russia launched 76 drones and seven missiles against Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian air force on Sunday. Despite being reported as having intercepted 60 drones and one missile, 16 drones and six missiles targeted eight distinct locations throughout Ukraine.
• 93 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, including 60 over the Black Sea and one over the Krasnodar region. How many drones were fired overall, it didn’t say.

Politics and diplomacy

• Following discussions in Istanbul, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that “work on the lists of prisoners to be released is ongoing.” Russia did not respond right away.
• Anatolii Kryvonozhko has been acting as the head of Ukraine’s air force since nearly a year, according to Zelenskyy’s announcement.
• Zelenskyy added that Ukraine has put forth three additional sanctions, including those against the Russian’s shadow fleet of oil tankers’ captains.
• China’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement on Sunday that it had begun joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan in waters close to Vladivostok, Russia’s port. Three days of drills will be conducted.
• Pope Leo stated in a speech to a crowd of one million young Catholics on the outskirts of Rome, “We are with the young people of Gaza, we are with the young people of Ukraine.”

Source: Aljazeera