Monday, July 29

Russia’s war against Ukraine

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin is pictured after being heavily damaged by Russian artillery on July 28, 2024 in the community of Novoeconomichne in Donetsk Oblast (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)

Ukraine will receive first F-16s ‘in few weeks,’ WP reports. According to WP, the F-16s will not be brought close to the front line at first, so it is unclear whether they will be able to deter Russian planes flying in from Russian airspace.

Ukraine’s military confirms strike on oil refinery in Russia’s Kursk region. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in cooperation with the Ukrainian military, hit the Polyova oil depot in Russia’s Kursk region overnight on July 28, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed.

Russia’s war kills 564 Ukrainian children, wounds 1,487, Prosecutor General’s Office says. Most children were killed or injured in the eastern Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts, where the fighting has been some of the heaviest of the war, with 567 and 407 cases documented by the Ukrainian authorities in each oblast respectively.

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Ukraine will introduce ‘action plan for peace’ by end of November, Zelensky says. The president said Kyiv will start “detailed discussions with relevant countries” on territorial integrity and other issues, according to NHK.

Russia launched over 700 aerial bombs, 100 Shahed drones at Ukraine over past week, Zelensky says. The Ukrainian president called on allies to provide Kyiv with long-range weapons and air defense equipment, adding that “each concrete decision of the partners to strengthen our force is able to save people’s lives.”

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2 years after Ukrainian POWs killed in Olenivka camp explosion, no one prosecuted

Two years after an explosion killed at least 54 Ukrainian prisoners of war and injured over 150 more at a penal colony in Russian-occupied Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast on July 28-29, 2022, no one has been held accountable as Russia continues to block investigation efforts.

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Ukraine war latest: Russia reportedly captures Vovche in Donetsk Oblast advancing toward Pokrovsk

Russian forces have captured the village of Vovche in Donetsk Oblast, the crowd-sourced monitoring website DeepState reported on July 27, though the news has yet to be officially confirmed by Ukraine.

Photo: Ruslan Kaniuka/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Human cost of war

Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 11, injure 41 over past day. Russian attacks against four Ukrainian regions killed 11 people and wounded another 41 in the past day, regional authorities reported early on July 28.

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International response

Rebels in Mali claim to have killed and injured dozens of soldiers, Russian mercenaries. Mali’s army and Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group lost dozens in killed and wounded in a battle with rebels in the country’s north, a spokesman for the rebels claimed on July 27.

Russia will deploy its low, intermediate-range missiles if US deploys missiles in Germany, Putin says. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would deploy short and intermediate-range nuclear-capable missiles if American missile systems capable of striking Russian territory were deployed in Germany.

Polish Foreign Ministry suggests Hungary leave EU, NATO after Orban’s controversial statements. “I do not understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that they dislike so much and that supposedly mistreat them,” Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski said.

In other news

PTSD accounts for 29% of neuralgic diseases suffered by military, Defense Ministry says. The share of PTSD from neuralgic diseases among the military will only increase, according to Oksana Sukhorukova, head of the Healthcare Department of the Defense Ministry.

3 Ukrainian tennis players advance to second round of Olympic Games in Paris. For the second time in history, four Ukrainian female athletes qualified in the individual tennis competition at the Olympics. Anhelina Kalinina was also supposed to compete at Roland Garros courts, but she withdrew at the last minute due to a cold.

Olympic organizers revoke accreditation of 4 Russian journalists, state-owned media claims. Olympic organizers have yet to comment on the alleged incident, according to Reuters. France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin also declined to comment on the decision to revoke accreditation, stating that the decision lies with Olympic organizers.

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