Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 223 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here’s how things are on Tuesday July 1:

Struggle

• The Governor of Russia Luhansk region In eastern Ukraine, Leonid Pasechnik, said Russian troops are now in full control of the whole region.
• If it is confirmed, it would make Luhansk the first Ukrainian region entirely occupied by Russia after more than three years of war. Luhansk is one of the four regions that Russia now claims as his.
• Bloggers from the media and the Russian States war also said that Russian forces had taken control of the first village in the Ukrainian Central region of Dnipropetrovsk.
• This came then that officials appointed by Moscow said that Ukrainian forces had attacked the city of Donetsk in the Donetsk region occupied by Russia, killing at least one person, damaging several buildings and setting fire to a market.
• Also in Donetsk, the Russian forces occupied one of the most precious lithium deposits in Ukraine near the village of Shevchenko, reported the kyiv Independent, citing Roman Pohoryi, the founder of the open source mapping project Deep State.
• The Ukrainian Air Force, on the other hand, said that he had detected 107 Russian drones Shahed and lure in the country’s airspace during the night, one day after the country knew the greater air attack Russian forces since 2022.
• The Russian strikes in the northeast region of Kharkiv in Ukraine killed two and eight injured, including a 6-year-old child, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
• Outside the immediate region, Bloomberg reported an explosion on an oil tanker near Libya, in the last unexplained explosion on ships that had already called in Russian ports.

Politics and diplomacy

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov urged the United States to determine whether new sanctions against Russia would help the Ukrainian peace effort after a high-level republican senator said he had received the blessing of the American president Donald Trump to move forward on a bill presenting punitive measures against Moscow.
• American envoy Keith Kellogg responded to Peskov’s comments, describing them as “Orwellians”. “Russia cannot continue to take the time while it bombes civilian targets in Ukraine,” said Kellogg in an article on X.
• German Minister of Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul, speaking during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of making the “pure mockery” of peace talks.
• “Its apparent preparation to negotiate is only a facade so far,” said Wadephul, adding that Germany was trying to help Ukraine arrive at a point where it could “negotiate more strongly”.
• The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Moscow introduced “reciprocal measures” restricting access to 15 European Union media, in retaliation for the last series of EU sanctions on Russia.
• In North Korea, images on state television have shown that leader Kim Jong, a drapeting of coffins with the country’s national flag in what seemed to be the repatriation of soldiers killed to fight for Russia against Ukraine, according to the Reuters news agency.
• Norway said that it would deploy F-35 fighter planes to Poland to protect Polish airspace and a key logistics center for helping Ukraine, one day after Warsaw blurred planes in response to Russian air attacks against Western Ukraine, near the border.

Economy

• The International Monetary Fund said it would provide $ 500 million to Ukraine, after completing a routine examination of its $ 15.5 billion support program.