Here are the key events on day 1,245 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Wednesday, July 23:
Fighting
A Ukrainian drone strike on a private bus killed three people in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson, Russian-appointed local official Vladimir Saldo said. “Three more civilians were injured and are in serious condition,” Saldo added in a Telegram post.
A Ukrainian attack killed a man in Russia’s Belgorod border region, the local governor said.
A Russian glide bomb attack killed a 10-year-old boy in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko, said. The bomb, which caused a fire in an apartment building, also wounded five others, Honcharenko added.
Russia launched multiple waves of attacks on Ukraine’s Sumy region, including two separate drone attacks on a petrol station in the town of Putyvl, which injured 11 people, local officials said.
The Russian army claimed that it captured the village of Novotoretske in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s military said that a French-supplied Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed after experiencing equipment failure during an assignment, with the pilot ejecting safely.
A “massive” Russian drone attack damaged Ukrainian gas production infrastructure, said Sergii Koretski, the CEO of Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz. “Such attacks occur regularly. These objects are of no military significance,” Koretski wrote on Facebook.
Ukrainian emergency service workers extinguish a fire following a Russian drone attack in the city of Kostiantynivka, …