Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 867 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

This is what the situation looks like on Thursday, July 11, 2024:

Battle

• Ukrainian officials said Russia fired 20 drones and five missiles at Ukraine, killing two people in the Black Sea region around Odessa, damaging port infrastructure and hitting an energy facility in the northwest.
• Another Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv killed one person and injured eight others, the regional governor said.
• The Ukrainian military denied Russian claims that its forces had captured the village of Yasnobrodivka in the eastern Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s top prosecutor accused Russian forces of killing two Ukrainian soldiers captured in the partially occupied southeastern region of Zaporizhia in June.
• In Russia, the governor of the Belgorod region said one man was killed and seven injured in a Ukrainian attack on the area bordering Ukraine.
• The Russian domestic intelligence service FSB also said it had foiled a plan for a “terrorist attack” on the country’s only aircraft carrier and arrested an agent of the Ukrainian secret service.

Politics and Diplomacy

• The 32 NATO members officially declared that Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a simple but more binding assurance of protection after the end of the war with Russia. “Ukraine’s future lies in NATO,” the alliance members said in a communiqué after a summit in Washington, DC. “We will continue to support it on its irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership.”
• In their communiqué, NATO allies also described China as a “key enabler” of Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and said Beijing continues to pose a systematic challenge to Euro-Atlantic security.
• The United States announced that it will begin deploying long-range missiles in Germany in 2026. This is to counter what its allies call the growing threat Russia poses to Europe. “We cannot rule out the possibility of an attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the allies,” the two countries said in a communiqué.

Military aid

• NATO has pledged to provide at least 40 billion euros ($43.28 billion) in military aid to Ukraine over the next year, but this falls short of the multi-year commitment sought by the alliance’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the sidelines of the NATO summit that the first batch of US-built F-16 fighter jets will be delivered to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands and will fly over Ukrainian skies this summer.
• The Netherlands also announced additional F-16 fighter jet ammunition for Ukraine, totaling 300 million euros ($324.6 million). The new Dutch pledge comes on top of the 150 million euros ($162.4 million) worth of F-16 ammunition it has already pledged.
• NATO is also expected to announce the creation of a central command to help the United States coordinate training and arms deliveries to Ukraine.
• NATO chief Stoltenberg also said that a new US air defense base in northern Poland is now operational. It is part of a broader NATO missile shield and is designed to detect and intercept ballistic missile attacks.