Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 862 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 862nd day, these are the key developments.

This is the situation on Saturday, July 6, 2024.

Fighting

• Multiple Russian attacks have killed at least seven people and injured more than two dozen others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, officials said. Russia has focused its firepower on the industrial region that has been partially controlled by Kremlin-backed forces since 2014.
• Two of the Russian attacks on the town of Selydove, which is close to the front where Moscow’s forces are advancing, killed at least five people and injured eight, regional governor Vadym Filashkin said.
• A 32-year-old woman was also killed and 20 others injured by Russian shelling in the town of Komar, damaging homes, shops and an administrative building, Filashkin said.
• One person was killed in a Russian Smerch rocket attack in the city of Ukrainsk, making the total number of victims in Russian attacks seven. One person was injured in the same city.

• Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed official in the Donetsk region, said five people were killed in several Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled territory.
• Further north, in the Donetsk region, Russian forces are advancing towards the hilltop village of Chasiv Yar. Images distributed by Ukrainian forces show rows of destroyed and smoking Soviet-era housing blocks in the city.

• Ukraine’s air defense claims to have shot down 24 of 27 Russian drones fired in a night raid on Saturday. He said drones were shot down in 12 regions of the country.

• Russian drone strikes in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday morning cut power to the local water system and disrupted water supplies. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reported a series of explosions in the city northeast of the capital, Kiev.

Politics and diplomacy

• In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban that Ukraine must abandon four regions in the east and south – including Donetsk – if it wants peace.
• Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot in May, said he would have joined Orbán on his controversial visit to Moscow if his health had allowed it.
• The United States joined the European Union in criticizing Orbán’s trip to Russia. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the trip “will not advance the cause of peace and is counterproductive to promoting Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence.”
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Keir Starmer for promising that his government would continue to support Ukraine, in a phone call hours after the new UK Prime Minister took office. Britain has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
• Starmer told US President Joe Biden that British support for Ukraine’s war with Russia was “unwavering”, in a first call hours after taking office.

• NATO allies, at their summit in Washington, D.C., next week, will unveil a “bridge to membership” plan for Ukraine and announce measures to bolster Kiev’s air defenses, a senior U.S. official said.

• Mihail Popsoi, foreign minister of Moldova, a former Soviet republic, said his government reserved the right to order further expulsions of Russian diplomats if Moscow engaged in new activities harmful to the country’s interests. Moldova’s relations with Russia deteriorated when President Maia Sandu denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and led an effort to join the European Union.