Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 871 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 871st day, these are the key developments.

This is where the war is on Monday, July 15, 2024:

Fighting

• Russia shot down 22 Ukrainian drones overnight in the west of the country and over Crimea, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said. Fifteen drones were shot down over the Russian border region of Bryansk, six over Crimea and one over Lipetsk. Separately, the governor of Kursk said that three more Ukrainian drones had been shot down there.

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of the village of Urozhaine in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which, if confirmed, would be the latest in a series of gains since the capture of the strategic city of Avdiivka, in February.

• Urozhaine was one of the few areas that Ukraine recovered during its 2023 offensive. But Russia has been slowly seizing territory in eastern Ukraine since the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive, as Kiev’s troops struggle with ammunition and manpower shortages. -of labor.

Troops and weapons

• Ukraine steps up mobilization to replenish troop numbers more than 28 months since Russia’s invasion. But Ukrainian men are becoming less eager to fight at a time when public enthusiasm for wartime service has waned. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lowered the draft age to 25, from 27 in April, and signed a review of the mobilization process that took effect in May.
• A network of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops across Ukraine is reportedly harnessing innovation to create an army of robots that the country hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians. Defense startups across the country — about 250, according to industry estimates — are allegedly creating killing machines in secret locations that typically look like rural auto repair shops, according to a US News investigation. Associated Press.
• According to the report, a company can manufacture an unmanned ground vehicle called Odyssey in four days, at a price of $35,000, or about 10% of the cost of an imported model.
• The use of unmanned weapons, however, has raised concerns with experts who say the use of drones and artificial intelligence in weapons could lower the barrier to killing and dramatically worsen conflicts. Human Rights Watch and other international human rights groups call for a ban on weapons that preclude human decision-making, a concern shared by the UN General Assembly and other technology experts.

Policy

• Ten years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was launched into the sky over separatist-controlled pro-Russian territory in Ukraine, families of the victims will gather on Wednesday to remember the tragedy, as hopes fade that those responsible ​​​​they will soon be behind bars. The doomed flight took off on a sunny summer day on July 17, 2014. A Dutch court sentenced three men in absentia to life in prison for their role in downing the plane, during the early stages of a war that saw Moscow seize Crimea. Peninsula.

Sport

• Several hundred people marched in central Paris to honor Ukrainian athletes who died in the war with Russia before having the opportunity to compete in the Paris Olympics. Waving flags and wearing T-shirts with photos of top athletes killed in the battle against Russian invaders, protesters called for Russian and Belarusian competitors to be banned from the opening of the Games on July 26.