Russia’s War of Ukraine: List of the main events, today 1,236 | Russia-Ukraine, news war

Here are the main events on the 1236th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Monday 14 July:

Fighting:

• Russian drone attacks killed a 53 -year -old Ukrainian man in the Sumi region of Ukraine and left parts of the city of Sumi without power, Kiev Independent, citing local authorities.
• The SBU intelligence service in Ukraine said it had killed many Russian secret service agents during their arrest in the Kiev region on Sunday. SBU said she believed that the agents were behind the killing of Colonel Ivan Foreonish, in Kyiv on Thursday.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces had seized the villages of Miklayevka and Mirn in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.
• The United Nations Nuclear Control Authority has reported that hundreds of small weapons fire rounds were heard late Saturday at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is occupied by Russian forces. The agency described the shots as unusual and said it is seeking more information about the accident.

arms

• US President Donald Trump said that Washington will send Patriot Air Defense systems to Ukraine, without specifying their number, just two weeks after Washington said it would stop some delivery operations for Kiev. “I haven’t agreed on the number yet, but they will have some because they need protection,” he told reporters.
• The Great Republican Senator Lindsi Graham, a major ally of Trump, told the CBS News that he is expected to start the flow of US arms shipments to Ukraine soon. “The game … is about to change,” he said. “I expect, in the coming days, you will see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine to defend itself.”

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said his government is preparing to receive Trump’s private envoy, Keith Keel, in Kiev on Monday and said: “We are counting on the United States completely understanding what can be done to force Russia for peace.”
• Zelenskyy also said that the Russian forces fired more than 1,800 long -term drones, more than 1,200 sliding bombs and 83 missiles of various types in Ukraine last week.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Beijing on Sunday and “discuss relations with the United States and the prospects for solving the Ukrainian crisis,” according to Moscow.
• French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a huge increase in France’s defensive spending, saying that freedom in Europe has been facing greater threat than any time since the end of World War II.