Here are the key events of day 1 247 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here’s how things are going on Friday July 25:
Struggle
- Ukraine and Russia have attacked targets on the other’s territory after brief direct talks between the two parties in Istanbul did not progress on the stages to end almost three and a half years of war.
- Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said Russia launched 103 drones and four missiles during its night attack, hitting civil infrastructure, including sea ports, transport centers and residential areas.
- One person was killed and four others injured after the Russian forces organized the last of a series of mass drone attacks against the Port of the Black Sea of Odesa in Ukraine. The attack also caused several fires as well as damage to the historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- At least two people were killed and at least 33 more injured after Russian slippery bombs hit a residential area in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine in the northeast of the country,, said officials.
- One person has been killed in a drone attack in the Ukraine Sumy region on the northern border with Russia, where Moscow forces have set foot in recent months.
- Russia has also attacked the Cherkasy central Ukrainian region overnight, injuring seven people, including a nine -year -old child, and damaging more than a dozen residential buildings.
- Emergency officials from the Krasnodar region in Russia in the Black Sea said that the debris of a falling drone struck and killed a woman in the District of Adler near the city of Sochi. A second woman was treated in the hospital for serious injuries.
- The administrative chief of the Sirius federal district, south of Sochi, said that a drone has struck an oil terminal, giving no other details. Russia’s Aviation Authority also said that operations had been suspended at Sochi airport for about four hours.
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The Russian forces have taken control of the villages of Zvirove and Novoekonomichne in the Donetk region of eastern Ukraine, said the Russian Defense Ministry. The complaint could not be checked independently.
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Russian forces do their best to establish buffer areas along the border with Ukraine, said the news agency Ria Novosti quoted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.
Military aid
- The United States Department of State has approved potential military sales, including air defense, against Ukraine worth $ 330 million, said the Pentagon.
- An Indian company – Ideal Detonators Private Limited – sent $ 1.4 million from an explosive compound with military uses in Russia in December, according to Indian customs data seen by the Reuters news agency, despite American threats to impose sanctions on any entity supporting the Ukraine war effort in Russia.
Politics and diplomacy
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for rejected a proposal presented at the Istanbul talks for an immediate and complete ceasefire. He said that instead of accepting a truce agreement, Russian drones have struck residential buildings in Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy submitted a bill to restore the independence of the Ukrainian anti -corruption agency NABU and the SAPO anti -corruption proceedings, overthrowing the course after an explosion of public criticisms concerning its attempt to suppress their status as independent organizations.
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The Kremlin said it was difficult to see how Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet Zelenskyy before the end of August, Ria reported. Earlier, a Ukrainian official suggested that kyiv had proposed a meeting of Putin-Zelenskyy in August, in the deadline of 50 days established by the United States for the two parties to conclude a cease-fire contract.
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The European Union has expressed its expectations that China will meet the EU’s concerns and use its influence to urge Russia to accept a cease-fire in Ukraine, said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after her meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
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Russian Ministry of Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of continuing a path of “militarization” and said that it was a concern. She said that Berlin pursued an openly hostile policy and that Merz intensified an anti-Russian rhetoric “literally every day”.
Economy
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The governor of the Central Bank of Ukraine, Andriy Pyshnyy, said that his government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – kyiv’s main international lender – worked on a new loan program. Ukraine has a four -year loan program of $ 15.5 billion with the IMF which is expected to expire in 2027. kyiv has received around $ 10.6 billion as part of the program so far.
