This article summarizes the most important events of the war in Ukraine from Thursday the first day of July 2024. It is the 890th day of the war.
- Zelenskyi is planning dramatic changes to the leadership of Ukraine.
- Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomarev wounded in an assassination attempt.
- Ukrainian F-16 fighters flew their first combat flights.
Zelenskyi is planning dramatic changes to the leadership of Ukraine
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Thursday that changes will soon be seen in the government of Ukraine.
– We are currently working on the reorganization of key management positions and additional measures to ensure that more and more Ukrainian children can go to school in person, and not remotely, so that they can regain a normal school life, to the extent that it is possible during the war, Zelenskyi said, according to Ukrainska Pravda.
The Kyiv Independent has previously reported that Zelenskyi is considering serving as prime minister from 2020 Denys Smyhalin separation. Possible replacements are considered to be the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Svyridenko and CEO of the oil giant Naftogaz Oleksii Chernyshovia.
Zelensky visited the frontline on July 30. AOP
Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomarev wounded in an assassination attempt
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who lives in Ukraine today, has been assassinated in Kiev.
Ponomarev is said to have been wounded in a Russian drone attack.
Ukrainian media reports that Ponomarev’s home was struck by three Russian kamikaze drones.
The Obozrevatel newspaper wrote that a Russian drone exploded five meters from the politician’s house. Ponomarev received several shrapnel wounds, but his life is not in danger.
– Today seems to be my second birthday. The fifth attack against me, so far the most unusual, successful and challenging, Ponomarev wrote in the message service X.
Ponomarev was the only member of the Russian Duma to vote against the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Since then, he fled to the United States and later to Ukraine. He received Ukrainian citizenship in 2019.
Ponomarev in August 2022. AOP
Ukrainian F-16 fighters have flown their first combat flights
Ukraine’s long-awaited F-16 fighter jets have flown their first combat flights.
According to information from the British newspaper Telegraph, the fighters have so far only been used in “air defense missions”.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that a small number of F-16 fighters had arrived in Ukraine.
Soon after, a pixelated image purporting to be an F-16 over Ukraine spread across social media and Ukrainian media.
Ukraine has not officially confirmed that it has received the planes. However, a representative of the Ukrainian Air Force did not deny the Telegraph’s information.
Ukraine expects to receive 79 F-16 fighter jets from Belgium, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands.
According to a report published by the Washington Post last week, so far only six Ukrainian pilots have qualified to fly the F-16s, meaning that only a limited number of flights can be conducted each day.
It is also expected that the use of fighter jets will be limited to air defense missions, as Russian anti-aircraft systems threaten them closer to the front lines.
Explosions in many regions of Ukraine
Ukrainian state television Suspilne reported on its Telegram channel late Wednesday evening that explosions had been heard in Dnieper and Zaporizhzhia.
At the same time, an air alert had been issued for most of the southern, eastern and central parts of Ukraine.
In addition, the Ukrainian armed forces said that Russian drones have been spotted over the Kherson region.
The Russian-language BBC reports on the matter.
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