Right here is how issues stand on Monday, August 4:
Combating
- A Russian assault killed three folks in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia area on Sunday, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
- A Ukrainian drone assault sparked a significant fireplace at an oil depot in Sochi in southern Russia, the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar area, Veniamin Kondratiev, mentioned on Sunday. The fireplace was extinguished hours later after 120 firefighters had been deployed, officers mentioned. Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, briefly halted flights at Sochi’s airport in the course of the fireplace.
- Ukraine’s army says it used drones to goal a number of websites inside Russia, together with refineries, an airfield and an electronics plant.
- The governor of the Voronezh area in southern Russia mentioned 4 folks had been injured in a Ukrainian drone assault that precipitated a number of fires,
- A Russian assault injured seven folks and destroyed dozens of homes and residences within the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych mentioned on Telegram early on Sunday.
- The Ukrainian air drive mentioned on Sunday that Russia launched 76 drones and 7 missiles towards Ukraine. It mentioned 60 drones and one missile had been intercepted, however 16 drones and 6 missiles hit eight totally different places throughout Ukraine.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence mentioned its air defence items destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones in a single day, together with one over the Krasnodar area and 60 over the waters of the Black Sea. It didn’t specify what number of drones had been fired in whole.
Politics and Diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced that Ukraine and Russia have agreed to trade 1,200 prisoners following negotiations in Istanbul, including that “work on the lists [of prisoners to be released] is ongoing”. There was no instant remark from Russia.
- Zelenskyy introduced he had appointed Anatolii Kryvonozhko as Commander of Ukraine’s air drive, a job Kryvonozhko has been serving in as Performing Commander for almost a 12 months.
- Zelenskyy additionally mentioned that Ukraine has ready three new sanctions packages, together with sanctions towards the captains of Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers.
- China and Russia started joint naval drills within the Sea of Japan in waters close to the Russian port of Vladivostok, China’s Ministry of Nationwide Defence mentioned in a press release on Sunday. The drills will final for 3 days.
- Chatting with a crowd of 1 million younger Catholics on the outskirts of Rome, Pope Leo mentioned: “We’re with the younger folks of Gaza; we’re with the younger folks of Ukraine.”
