Russia War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,260 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Here are the main events of the 1260th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 7:

Fighting

• The regional ruler, Lizak, said that the Russian artillery shelling of a car of government emergency services in Ukraine killed three people, including an emergency worker, and four others were wounded in the town of Nikobol, southeast of Nikobol.
• The Ukraine Ministry of Energy said that dozens of Russian drones attacked the gas pumping station in southern Ukraine, according to the Ukraine.
• Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said, as Russia has hit a gas facility in the southern Odessa region of Ukraine, where gas reserves in Ukraine have become at the lowest level in 12 years, with storage facilities less than a full third, according to Exalys FIRM Expro.

cease-fire

• US President Donald Trump said his envoy Steve Witkeov has made “great progress” at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Trump added that he had updated some Washington allies in Europe after the meeting.
• Witkoff held about three hours of talks with Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday, two days before the end of the deadline set by Trump for Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine or face new sanctions.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States has a better understanding of the conditions under which Moscow is ready to end its war in Ukraine after the meeting.

• The Kremlin Foreign Policy Assistant, Yuri Ushakov, said the talks between Putin and Wikkov were “useful and constructive.” He said that Moscow had received certain “signals” from Trump and sent messages in return.
• President Zelinski said that he had discussed a visit to Witakouf to Moscow with Trump and that he had repeated Ukraine’s support for peace and its continuous design to defend himself.
• Zelenskyy added that it seems that Russia is “more inclined to a ceasefire” after a Witkoff meeting. “The pressure on them works. But the main thing is that they do not deceive us in the details – no, we or the United States,” Zelinski said in his night title.

• A White House official said that Trump could meet Putin as soon as next week, as the United States has continued to prepare for secondary sanctions, including China, to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
• Trump said he could announce more customs tariffs on China, similar to the 25 percent fees that have been announced Earlier on IndiaOn its purchases of Russian oil.

Military aid

• Ukraine Minister of Defense Dennis Shmeisal thanked the United States for approving more than 200 million dollars in deals to provide weapons to Ukraine, which will be funded by Kiev allies. He wrote on x.

Regional developments

• Reuters news agency reported that the government of Germany coalition is planning to reduce the state’s benefits for newly arrived Ukrainian refugees, which may lead to 100 euros ($ 116) per month per refugee, according to Reuters news agency, citing a law draft.
• A NATO spokesman said that NATO Secretary -General Mark Roti discussed with Lithuania the issue of Russian military aircraft violations of the Lithuanian air field.