Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 860 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 860th day, these are the key developments.

This is the situation on Thursday, July 4, 2024.

Fighting

• At least five people died and dozens were injured in a Russian missile and drone attack on the city of Dnipro, in southeastern Ukraine.
• At least one person died and 14 were injured in a series of Russian attacks that hit the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, including the regional capital of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
• At least one person died and three were injured in a Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian region of Poltava. Regional governor Filip Pronin said one person was in critical condition.
• The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said Russia’s use of air-dropped bombs led to more civilian casualties in Ukraine between March and May. The OHCHR concluded that the Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region from May 10 to 31 killed 78 civilians and injured 305 more. Between March and May, at least 436 civilians were killed and 1,760 injured in Ukraine, according to the agency.
• Moscow-appointed officials at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine said a Ukrainian drone strike on a nearby electricity substation injured eight workers and left the plant’s dormitory town, Enerhodar, without power and water.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces destroyed two Ukrainian maritime drones that targeted the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major naval base and oil shipping hub. No casualties or damage were reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• A military court in Moscow arrested three brothers for treason for trying to enter Ukraine to join a Russian unit fighting on Kiev’s side. Ioann Ashcheulov, 24, was sentenced to 17 and a half years, while his brothers – Alexei, 20, and Timofey, 19 – were sentenced to 17 years, Russian state media reported.
• A court in Rostov-on-Don found a 19-year-old man guilty of treason for allegedly donating money to the Kiev military and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.
• A St. Petersburg court more than doubled activist and documentary filmmaker Vsevolod Korolev’s sentence to seven years after he and prosecutors appealed his original three-year prison sentence for criticizing Russia’s offensive against Ukraine on social media. Korolev has been in pre-trial detention since July 2022,
• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Ukraine when they met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana and agreed that Ukraine peace talks without the presence of Russia would be useless.
• Also meeting on the sidelines of the SCO, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Putin that Ankara could help end the conflict, but Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Erdogan could not play the role of intermediary. He didn’t say why.
• The new Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof, assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a phone call that his country’s support for Ukraine would remain “rock solid.”
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he discussed bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on “a range of regional and global threats posed by Russia, Iran and North Korea” with his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz.

Weapons

• The United States announced $150 million in new military assistance to Ukraine. The package includes missiles for HAWK air defense systems, ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS), 155 mm and 105 mm artillery rounds, 81 mm mortar rounds, TOW missiles (tube-launched, tracked optically, wire-guided), Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems, as well as a variety of other ammunition and small arms equipment.
• NATO allies have agreed to fund military aid to Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43 billion) next year, two Western European diplomats told Reuters news agency, a week before the alliance’s leaders are scheduled to meet. in Washington.
• The Czech Defense Ministry said the country donated equipment from its military storage, including aircraft and ammunition, worth 6.75 billion crowns ($288.42 million) to Ukraine in late May.