{"id":249737,"date":"2025-07-09T03:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249737\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:48:13","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1231-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249737\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,231 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">Here are the key events on day 1,231 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how things stand on Wednesday, July 9:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>A Ukrainian attack on a beach in the Russian city of Kursk killed three people and injured seven, including a five-year-old boy, acting regional Governor Alexander Khinshtein said. The dead included a Rosgvardia (Russian National Guard) officer, Russia\u2019s TASS news agency reported.<\/li>\n<li>TASS reported that a Ukrainian drone attack on Rylsk, also in the Kursk region, hit the Central District Hospital, an ambulance building and an administrative building, injuring two people.<\/li>\n<li>The acting mayor of Kursk, Sergey Kotlyarov, said that debris from a downed Ukrainian drone damaged several houses in the Zheleznodorozhny district.<\/li>\n<li>The governor of Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk, Vadym Filashkin, said Russia\u2019s attacks killed three people and injured 10 more in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Four people were killed and four others injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region, the regional administration said.<\/li>\n<li>In Ukraine\u2019s Kherson region, one person was killed and four others injured, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.<\/li>\n<li>The governor of Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhia region said that Russian attacks injured 20 people and damaged at least 64 homes.<\/li>\n<li>The Kyiv Independent reported that explosions were heard in Kyiv at about midnight on Wednesday after Ukraine\u2019s Air Force issued a missile alert for the entire country.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said Russia launched 54 drones and four guided missiles overnight. Ukraine shot down 34 of the drones, while five hit locations across the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regional security<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>A jury in the United Kingdom convicted three men of arson in an attack on an east London warehouse that was storing equipment destined for Ukraine. Prosecutors said agents from Russia\u2019s Wagner mercenary group, acting on behalf of Russian military intelligence, planned the attack.<\/li>\n<li>Russia detained media activist Pavel Andreev, accusing him of being \u201cin touch with agents of NATO countries and organisations that foreign secret services use to cover up their intelligence and subversive activities in Russia\u201d, TASS reported, citing Russia\u2019s FSB security service.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Ukraine asked the organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague to investigate Russian forces\u2019 alleged use of banned toxic munitions following a report from Dutch and German intelligence agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>US President Donald Trump said he is tired of the meaningless \u201cb*******\u201d from Russian President Vladimir Putin during negotiations.<\/li>\n<li>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine will \u201cintensify\u201d talks with the United States on air defence.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Europe will never abandon Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the UK parliament, adding: \u201cWe will fight till the very last minute in order to get the ceasefire\u2026 because this is our security and our principles together which are at stake in Ukraine.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the key events on day 1,231 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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