Here are the main events of the day 1,259 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 6:
Fighting
- Regional ruler, Olier Senhopov, said that the Russian forces launched attacks on six settlements in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine.
- The Russian forces also bombed a railway station in the town of Luzova, killing a mechanic. Syniehubov said that four other railway workers were among the ten people with the injured people.
- The ruler Ivan Fedorov said that the Russian forces launched 431 air attacks at 16 settlements in the Zaburisia region of Ukraine, killing four people and wounding three others.
- Ukrainian drone was killed by four employees of water facilities in Safatovsky Province, in the Russian Luhansk region, according to the governor of the region, Leonid Paschink. The head of the health service in the region, which was reported by the state -run Tass agency in Russia, said later that the fifth worker in the strike had died in the hospital.
- TASS also said that a 30 -year -old man was killed and wounded by a 51 -year -old woman in a Ukrainian drone on a car near the Russian village of Nesnia Dovanka on Monday.
- Ukrainian military intelligence claimed that the Ukrainian forces killed 334 Russian soldiers and wounded more than 550, in a failed attack on the Sumi area of Ukraine. Al -Jazeera was unable to verify the report.
- Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of Ukraine, Andrei Yermak, told a telegram that Kiev had found components of India in Russian drones used for attacks on Ukraine. Al Jazeera could not independently verify information.
Military aid
- The Norwegian government said in a statement that Sweden, Norway and Denmark will contribute together about 5 billion Norwegian crowns (486.16 million dollars) to buy American weapons for Ukraine.
- Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski admitted the promised financing, saying that Ukraine received “an additional 500 million dollars from our friends in northern Europe: Sweden, Norway and Denmark” for US weapons.
- The US State Department has agreed to the potential sale to support the reform and sustainability of the Howitzer M777 artillery, transport and monotheistic services to Ukraine from Bae Systems and other US contractors for a total of 203.5 million dollars, the Pentagon said.
Regional security
- A spokesman for the German Air Force said that the German Air Force will install five combat aircraft in Poland for several weeks, in response to a Polish request. The independent news port reported that this step was a deterrent before the Russian-Bolhar Russian military training.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania wrote to the Military Alliance of NATO, which requires help in strengthening its air defenses, after two military aircraft crossed its territory from Belarus last month.
The ceasefire and penalties
- Zelinski said he had a “fruitful conversation” with US President Donald Trump, “with the main focus of ending the war.”
- Trump told CNBC News that low energy prices may pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the Moscow war in Ukraine.
- “If the energy decreases enough, Putin will stop killing people,” Trump said. “If the energy falls, and another $ 10 per barrel, he will not have a choice because its economy is incoming.”
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