Russia-Ukraine War: List Of Key Events, Day 1,248 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events of the 1,248 of the War of Russia in Ukraine.

This is how things are on Saturday, July 26:

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The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that the Ukrainian forces faced fierce fighting for the city of Pokrovsk in the east of the country, a logistics center near where the Army of Russia has announced the capture almost daily of the Ukrainian villages.
The main commander of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskii, described Pokrovsk and five other sectors as one of the most difficult war theaters along the front of 1,000 km (620 miles) with Russia.
Earlier on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the capture of two villages on both sides of Pokrovsk: Zvirove to the west and Novoekonomichne to the east. A third town, Novotoretske, near Pokrovsk, was declared “released” by Moscow earlier this week.
President Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian forces were also “continuing to act” in the border areas of the northern region of Sumy, where Russian troops have won a support point in recent weeks.
According to the popular Ukranian military blog, kyiv’s forces have resumed the previously lost people of Kindravka in Sumy.
Moscow is trying to establish in Sumy what the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, calls a “damping zone” between Russia and Ukraine.

Zelenskyy has toured a local factory that produces interceptor drones, increasingly seen as a solution to protect Ukrainian cities from Russian air attacks, and said that a goal had been established to compensate up to 1,000 of weapons every day. He said that interceptor drones had proven efficient to tear down waves of Russian attack drones.
Zelenskyy also said that his country was working to ensure international funds for 10 patriot air defense systems, after an agreement that allows European states to buy the United States weapons and donate it to kyiv.
The United States announced that it is providing a loan guarantee of $ 4 billion for the purchase of US military teams by Poland, which limits Russia and Ukraine, destroyed by war.
It is likely that the only carrier of Aircraft in Russia, Admiral Kuznetsov, 40, is sold or discarded, said the president of the State Naval Construction Corporation of Russia, Andrei Kostin, to the Kommersant newspaper.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he is looking for secondary sanctions to Russia in the middle of the war in Ukraine.
The United States ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, urged all countries, specifically naming China, to stop exports to Russia of double -use goods that Washington says they contribute to the industrial base of Russia and allow their attacks with drones and missiles against Ukraine.
In response, China’s attached ambassador, Geng Shuang, said that China did not begin the war in Ukraine, is not part of the conflict, has never provided lethal weapons and has always “strictly controlled dual use materials, including the export of drones.” Geng also urged the United States to “stop changing” in the conflict.

The European Parliament is considering proposals to accelerate the elimination of the elimination of the European Union of Russian gas in a year, until January 2027, the Reuters news agency reported, since Brussels officials prepare to negotiate a prohibition of legally linking.
The Indian oil refiner backed by Russia, Nayara Energy, appointed Sergey Denisov as its new executive director, after the previous CEO of the firm, Alessandro Des Dorides, resigned from the sanctions of the European Union that went to the company, reports Reuters.

Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he can talk to Trump and President Putin this week to see if a leaders meeting in Istanbul is possible to discuss a high fire in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that a summit between Putin and Zelensky could only occur as a final step to seal a peace agreement, and added that it was unlikely that such a meeting could occur at the end of August, as Ukraine had proposed.

The main anti -corruption researcher of Ukraine, Semen Kryvones, said he did not expect the attempts to derail his agency’s work to end, despite an abrupt Zelenskyy in the independence of two anti -corruption agencies that fed rare war protests. Kryvones said he was surprised by those attempts.
Trump said he would like to keep the limits on the deployments of American and Russian strategic nuclear weapons established in the new 2010 start agreement, which expires in February. Trump made the comments when he left the White House on a trip to Scotland.

Georgia organized the main multinational military exercises with NATO troops, despite the fact that his government faces increasing accusations of moving away from a western road and approaching Russia’s orbit in the middle of the war in Ukraine.