Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 870 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

Here is the state of affairs on Sunday, July 14, 2024:

Battle

• Russian fire killed five civilians in Kharkiv, Ukraine. A rocket attack came after rescue workers had already arrived at the scene of an earlier attack, officials said. This second attack in the village of Budy killed a policeman and a paramedic. Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said it was not the first time Russia had attacked rescue workers while they were “rescuing civilians.”
• The region’s governor, Oleg Synegubov, said 22 people were injured in the two attacks, including five railway workers, and accused Russia of “deliberately” attacking the area twice.
• In the southern Kherson region, three people were killed by Russian shelling, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin. The victims were two women, aged 72 and 50, and a 41-year-old man, he said. Prokudin said Russian forces had been shelling Ukrainian positions throughout the day.
• Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said a multiple rocket launcher attack hit a multi-story apartment building, killing one person in Khasiv Yar, a town targeted by Russian forces as a base in their advance through eastern Ukraine.
• A guided bomb, which is increasingly used in Russian attacks, also killed one person near the town of Kurakhove, where some of the heaviest fighting is taking place along the 1,000-kilometer-long front.
• Two bombs dropped on a village further west, near the town of Komar, killed two people and reportedly damaged ten buildings and a shop.

• A fire that broke out after a drone strike on Saturday morning has been extinguished at an oil depot in Russia’s southern Rostov region, Governor Vasily Golubev said in a statement on the messaging app Telegram. He said the fire in Tsimlyansky district covered 200 square meters (2,150 square feet) and burned for at least six hours.

Politics and Diplomacy

• The Kremlin warned that the deployment of American missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles. It could lead to a repeat of the Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also suggested that such a confrontation could endanger Europe as a whole in the same way that the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• Britain’s new government has said the “arc of conflict and instability” threatening Europe’s borders will be the focus of the upcoming European Political Community (EPC) meeting near London. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host more than 45 European leaders at Blenheim Palace, west of London, on Thursday to discuss Europe’s security concerns, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, said tensions on his country’s border with Ukraine had eased and additional troops stationed there were being sent back to their bases. The official BelTA news agency quoted him as saying that Belarusian intelligence had determined that Ukraine had withdrawn troops from sensitive areas.

• Poland will spend five percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense in 2025, its foreign minister told Bloomberg Television. Warsaw has increased its defense spending in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk had previously told private broadcaster TVN24 that Poland would increase its defense budget by about ten percent in 2025 to a record high.

• The Swiss public prosecutor’s office announced that it is investigating a Russian diplomat and a suspected agent, as well as two other people who allegedly tried to obtain weapons and other potentially dangerous materials. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office (OAG) said it was investigating the two defendants, who have no diplomatic immunity and are accused of violating laws including the Swiss War Material Act and the Embargo Act.