Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,259

On Wednesday, August 6, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• According to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov, the forces of Russian aggression attacked six Kharkiv-area settlements, killing three people and injuring ten in Lyman and Vovchansk.
• A duty mechanic was killed when Russian forces shelled a Lozova railway station. Ten people were injured, according to Syniehubov, including four other railroad workers.
• Four people were killed and three others were hurt in the 431 airstrikes that Russia carried out on 16 settlements in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.
• According to Leonid Pasechnik, the region’s newly installed governor, four Ukrainian drones were killed in the district of Svatovsky in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region. A fifth worker injured in the strike had later passed away in a hospital, according to the head of the region’s health service, according to a statement from Russia’s state-run TASS news agency.

• A 30-year-old man was killed and a 51-year-old woman was hurt on Monday in the Svatovsky district of the Svatovsky district when a Ukrainian drone attacked a car.
• In a failed attack on Ukraine’s Sumy region, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, 334 Russian soldiers were killed and more than 550 were hurt in Ukraine. The report couldn’t be verified by Al Jazeera.
• Andriy Yermak, the country’s top official in Ukraine, claimed on Telegram that Kyiv had discovered Indian components in Russian drones used to attack Ukraine. Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the information.

military assistance

• The Norwegian government announced in a statement that Sweden, Norway, and Denmark will contribute about 5 billion Norwegian crowns ($486.16) to the purchase of US weapons for Ukraine.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, acknowledged the funding and claimed that the country had received “a further $500 million from our friends in Northern Europe: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” for US weapons.
• According to the Pentagon, the US Department of State approved the potential sale of M777 Howitzer artillery guns, transportation, and consolidation services to Ukraine from BAE Systems and other US contractors for an estimated $ 203.5 million.

Regional security

• In response to a Polish request, the German air force will station five Eurofighter combat aircraft in Poland for a number of weeks, according to a spokesman for the air force. According to the Kyiv Independent news outlet, the move was used to deter joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises.
• After two military drones entered Lithuania’s territory from Belarus last month, the country’s ministry of foreign affairs wrote to the NATO military alliance in a letter.

Sanctions and the ceasefire

• Zelenskyy claimed to have a “productive conversation” with US President Donald Trump, “with the main goal of course being to end the war.”
• Trump claimed on CNBC that Russian President Vladimir Putin might be forced to put an end to Russia’s conflict in Ukraine due to falling energy prices.
• Trump said that if the energy levels drop, Putin will stop killing people. He’s going to have no other choice because his economy is in trouble if you get your energy down, or even $10 per barrel.