Because the battle enters its 884th day, listed here are the important thing developments.
That is what the battle seems to be like on Sunday, July 28, 2024:
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- A 14-year-old boy was killed and 12 folks, together with six youngsters, had been injured in a Russian shelling assault within the middle of Glushiv in Ukraine’s Sumy area.
- Authorities stated one individual was killed within the Kharkiv area of northeastern Ukraine and 5 others had been injured within the Donetsk area within the east.
- Within the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, Russia carried out shelling in town of Bylozerka, just a few kilometers away from the Dnieper River, ensuing within the dying of a 37-year-old lady in Antonivka and the intense harm of a 67-year-old man.
- One civilian was killed in a Ukrainian assault on the Russian border area of Belgorod, the place Kiev forces assault nearly day by day, the governor of Ukraine, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated on Telegram.
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The Ukrainian media “Ukraine Pravda” reported, citing navy intelligence sources, {that a} Ukrainian assault drone hit a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber on the Oleniya navy airport in Russia. The airport is 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
- Russian troops carried out an aerial bombardment of the city of Mirnograd within the Donetsk area, injuring no less than 5 folks, together with an 11-year-old little one within the yard of a personal home.
- Russia claimed its troops had captured the Donetsk village of Lozuvatsk in fierce combating as its troops superior towards town of Pokrovsk.
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Russian air protection techniques destroyed seven drones launched by Ukraine in a single day, the Russian Protection Ministry stated. The ministry added that 5 drones had been destroyed over the Belgorod area and two over the Kursk area.
- Ukraine’s Protection Ministry stated its troops stopped 37 Russian assaults within the Pokrovsk area, with the fiercest combating reportedly within the village of Novoleksandrivka, 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from Lozuvatske.
- Sources within the Ukrainian Protection Ministry additionally informed AFP that three Russian navy helicopters had been the targets of “acts of sabotage”, together with one in Samara and two within the Moscow area.
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Alexei Smirnov, performing governor of Russia’s Kursk area, stated {that a} drone assault launched by Ukraine induced three oil tanks to catch fireplace at an oil storage depot in Russia’s Kursk area. Nobody was injured within the assault, however a hearth broke out in one of many tanks and was shortly extinguished with the assistance of 82 firefighters and 32 items of kit.
Politics and Diplomacy
- Chinese language Overseas Minister Wang Yi informed U.S. Overseas Minister Antony Blinken that Beijing denied accusations that it was serving to Russia wage battle in Ukraine. In the course of the assembly within the Laos capital, Wang Yi additionally stated that China would take “sturdy and highly effective measures” to defend China’s pursuits.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated Russia’s management was “overly rational” and Ukraine might by no means notice its hopes of turning into a member of the European Union or NATO. He additionally predicted that Asia “will turn out to be the dominant middle of the world” within the subsequent few years.
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could go to Ukraine subsequent month, his first go to to the nation because the battle with Russia, simply weeks after assembly Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, in accordance with Indian media experiences. India didn’t accuse Russia straight, however urged the 2 international locations to resolve the battle by way of dialogue and diplomacy.
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- Russia’s official information company RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Protection Ministry as saying {that a} Russian Su-34 bomber crashed whereas performing a scheduled coaching flight. The crew ejected and the airplane crashed in a abandoned space. The flight was performed with out ammunition.
