Key events on day 1,236 of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Here’s the current situation as of Monday, July 14:
Fighting:
- Russian drone attacks resulting in the death of a 53-year-old Ukrainian man and leaving parts of Sumy without power, as reported by the Kyiv Independent citing local authorities.
- Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service claims to have killed several Russian secret service agents during an operation to arrest them in the Kyiv region on Sunday, as they are believed to be responsible for the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence reports that its forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
- The United Nations’s nuclear watchdog stated hearing hundreds of rounds of small arms fire late on Saturday at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces. The agency described the shots as unusual and is seeking further information about the incident.
Weapons
- United States President Donald Trump announced that Washington will send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine but did not specify the quantity. “I haven’t agreed on the number yet, but they’re going to have some because they do need protection,” he told reporters.
- Top Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a key Trump ally, expects an influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine to begin soon. “The game… is about to change,” he said. “I expect, in the coming days, you will see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves,” he stated on CBS News.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government is preparing to receive Trump’s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Kyiv on Monday, and stated: “We count on the United States fully understanding what can be done to compel Russia to peace.”
- Zelenskyy also reported that Russian forces launched over 1,800 long-range drones, more than 1,200 glide bombs, and 83 missiles of various types at Ukraine in the past week.
- Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Beijing on Sunday and discussed relations with the United States and prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis, according to Moscow.
- French President Emmanuel Macron called for a significant increase in France’s defence spending, stating that freedom in Europe is facing a more significant threat than at any time since the end of World War II.
