Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 867 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 867th day, these are the key developments.

This is the situation on Thursday, July 11, 2024:

Fighting

• Russia launched 20 drones and five missiles into Ukraine, killing two people in the Black Sea region of Odesa, damaging port infrastructure and hitting an energy facility in the northwest, Ukrainian officials said.
• Another Russian missile attack in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine killed one person and injured eight others, the regional governor said.
• The Ukrainian military denied Russian claims that its forces had captured the village of Yasnobrodivka in the eastern Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s top prosecutor has accused Russian forces of killing two Ukrainian soldiers who were captured in June in the partially occupied southeastern region of Zaporizhia.
• In Russia, the governor of the Belgorod region said one man was killed and seven were injured in a Ukrainian attack in the area, which is on the border with Ukraine.
• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) also said it foiled a “terrorist attack” plot on the country’s only aircraft carrier and detained a Ukrainian special services agent.

Politics and diplomacy

• NATO’s 32 members have formally declared Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to joining the Western military alliance, offering a simple but more binding guarantee of protection once the war with Russia ends. “Ukraine’s future lies in NATO,” the alliance’s members said in a statement after a summit in Washington, DC. “We will continue to support you on your irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.”
• The NATO allies, in their statement, also called China a “decisive facilitator” of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and said Beijing continues to pose systematic challenges to Euro-Atlantic security.
• The United States has said it will begin deploying long-range missiles in Germany in 2026, in a move aimed at countering what allies call the growing threat Russia poses to Europe. “We cannot rule out the possibility of an attack against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Allies,” the two countries said in a statement.

Military aid

• NATO has committed to providing Ukraine with at least 40 billion euros ($43.28 billion) in military aid next year, but has failed to meet the multi-year commitment sought by the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit, said that the first batch of US-built F-16 fighter jets is being transferred from Denmark and the Netherlands to Ukraine and will fly over Ukrainian skies this summer .
• The Netherlands also announced additional ammunition for F-16 fighters worth a total of 300 million euros ($324.6 million) for Ukraine. The new Dutch pledge adds to the 150 million euros ($162.4 million) worth of F-16 ammunition it has already promised to deliver
• NATO is also expected to announce the creation of a centralized command that will take over a greater role from the US in coordinating training and supplying weapons to Ukraine.
• Separately, Stoltenberg, the NATO chief, said a new U.S. air defense base in northern Poland, designed to detect and intercept ballistic missile attacks as part of a broader NATO missile shield, is now mission ready. .