Russia-Ukraine War: List of main events, day 881 | Russia-Ukraine war news

As the war enters its 881st day, these are the key developments.

This is where the war is on Thursday, July 25, 2024:

Fighting

• Russia has launched a series of attacks on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region, killing three people, wounding at least six and damaging the office of a Swiss mine clearance NGO, local officials said.
• The attack on Kharkiv came as Russia also launched a barrage of drones into southern Ukraine from Russian territory and the occupied Crimean peninsula. The attack injured three people and damaged port infrastructure as well as commercial and residential buildings in the city of Izmail, on the banks of the Danube River, local authorities said.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 17 of 23 drones, most of them over the southern region of Odesa.
• Ukraine’s Navy, however, said Russia had withdrawn all its ships from the Sea of ​​Azov, a body of water linked to the Black Sea.
• In the Russian capital Moscow, a car bomb exploded, injuring a Russian military intelligence agency officer and another person, according to local media. Turkey later announced that a Russian citizen suspected of involvement in the attack had been detained in the city of Bodrum, having arrived there from Moscow by plane.
• The Russian Defense Ministry also said it sent an Su-27 fighter jet to escort two British Typhoon fighter jets and an RC-135 reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in the city of Guangzhou and told him that Kiev is open to talks with Russia as long as Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully respected.
• Kuleba, however, said that Ukraine does not see Russia’s willingness to negotiate in “good faith”.
• The Kremlin told reporters that Kuleba’s remarks about willingness to hold talks appeared to be in line with Russia’s position, but more details were needed.
• Russia has banned 13 Japanese business leaders from entering the country in retaliation for Tokyo’s sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Japan lodged a protest against the entry ban.
• The European Commission said it was seeking more information on Hungary and Slovakia’s request for mediation with Ukraine, after Kiev placed Russian producer Lukoil on a sanctions list, cutting off supplies to both countries via a gas pipeline that runs through the territory. Ukrainian.
• The United States has warned India’s banks that financial institutions doing business with Russia’s military-industrial base risk losing access to the country’s financial system, Reuters news agency reported, citing a letter from the US Treasury Department. USA.
• Latvia has appealed the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union that annulled sanctions imposed on Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman and his business partner Petr Aven. The pair were sanctioned in 2022-23 over allegations of supporting the Kremlin’s actions or policies against Ukraine.
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, praised the fact that Ukraine was participating in the Olympic Games in wartime and added that the athletes’ presence in Paris would help people in his country maintain “normal lives”.

Economy

• Fitch further lowered Ukraine’s credit rating into default territory, at “C” from “CC”, citing a recently concluded agreement in principle with a group of creditors to restructure $20 billion in international bonds.