Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 861 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

Here is the situation on Friday, July 5, 2024.

Battle

• Russian attacks killed two people and injured 26 in Ukrainian regions stretching from the south through the east to the northeast, Ukrainian authorities said. A rocket attack in the southern Odessa region killed a woman and wounded seven people, while an attack in the village of Ruska Lozova in Kharkiv region killed a second woman and wounded a man.

• A six-year-old girl has died in hospital after a drone attack on the town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia’s Krasnodar region, said the region’s governor, Veniamin Kondratiev. He said on Friday that six people had been hospitalized following the attack.
• Nine people, including four children, were injured in a drone attack and artillery shelling in the town of Novohrodivka in the Ukrainian frontline region of Donetsk, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said seven people were injured in the southern city of Nikopol following a series of drone and artillery attacks by Russian forces. An injured woman also succumbed to injuries sustained on Wednesday in the region’s largest city, Dnipro, an attack that killed at least seven people.
• In the southern city of Kherson, two civilians were injured in a drone attack, according to the city administration.
• The Ukrainian army has announced that its troops have withdrawn from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important city in the eastern Donetsk region that was reduced to rubble by a months-long Russian assault.

Politics and Diplomacy

• According to Radio Free Europe and the Financial Times, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday. The Kremlin has neither confirmed nor denied the visit. It would be the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that Putin and Orban have met in Russia.

• Earlier this week, Orban visited Kyiv and urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider a ceasefire to speed up the end of the war with Russia. Hungary currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union and a visit to Moscow would provoke outrage in the Union.
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first visit to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine on July 8-9, walking a fine line between maintaining a long-standing alliance with Moscow and seeking closer security ties with the West. He last visited Russia in 2019 and received Putin in New Delhi in 2021.

• A Russian military court has remanded Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, commander of the country’s 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade, in custody for two months on charges of large-scale fraud, state news agency TASS reported. Gorodilov is the latest in a string of senior Russian military officers and senior defense officials arrested on corruption charges in recent months.

weapons

• The Russian Defense Ministry is currently conducting exercises with mobile nuclear missile launchers, the Interfax news agency quoted the ministry as saying. Crews of Yars missile launchers from two units will move over 100 km (62 miles) and practice stealth and deployment, it said, and more crews will take part in the exercises in the future.

• The ministry also said its forces destroyed 50 Ukrainian drones both on Russian territory and in Russian-annexed areas of Ukraine. 14 drones were destroyed over Krasnodar, 26 over Zaporizhia and 10 over Rostov.