Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,242

This is however things basal connected Sunday, July 20:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a rocket onslaught connected Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, sidesplitting 2 radical and damaging “an outpatient clinic, a schoolhouse and a taste institution”, according to the cardinal region’s governor, Serhiy Lysak.
• Another Russian rocket onslaught connected the Black Sea larboard of Odesa killed astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic overnight and wounded six others, including six children, officials said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces launched “more than 300 onslaught drones and implicit 30 missiles” against Ukrainian cities during the overnight attack.
• The attacks besides damaged captious infrastructure successful the Sumy region, “leaving respective 1000 families without electricity”, the Ukrainian president added.
• In Russia, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said aboriginal connected Sunday that Russian aerial defences downed astatine slightest 15 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said aboriginal connected Sunday that its aerial defence units destroyed 40 Ukrainian drones, including 21 implicit the Bryansk region, connected the Ukrainian border.
• This came hours aft the ministry said its aerial defence units changeable down six missiles and 349 drones implicit Russian territory connected Saturday.
• Earlier, Russia had to suspend trains for astir 4 hours overnight successful the confederate Rostov portion erstwhile it came nether a Ukrainian drone attack, which injured 1 railway worker.
• The acting politician of the Rostov region, connected Ukraine’s eastbound border, said Ukrainian drones had besides caused fires and knocked down powerfulness lines.

Ukrainian exigency work workers extinguish a occurrence successful a residential gathering aft Russian shelling, successful Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, connected Saturday [Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu]

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy said Ukraine sent Russia a connection offering a caller circular of bid talks to instrumentality spot adjacent week, aft negotiations stalled past month.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deporting Ukrainians to Georgia and leaving them stranded determination without due documents, hundreds of miles from their home. He said Ukraine has brought backmost 43 radical truthful far, but much radical stay successful “difficult conditions” astatine the border.
• Earlier, Volunteers Tbilisi, an assistance group, said astatine slightest 56 Ukrainians, mostly prisoners who completed their sentences and were subsequently ordered to permission Russia, were being held successful “inhumane” conditions successful a basement adjacent the Russian-Georgian border.
• India said it did not enactment “unilateral sanctions” by the European Union, aft Brussels imposed penalties connected Russia that included a Rosneft lipid refinery successful the occidental Indian authorities of Gujarat.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies