You missed the most recent occasions on the war in Ukraine ? 20 Minutes takes inventory for you each night. Right here is the gist of this Thursday, July 23, 2026, on the 1,610th day of the battle.
Reality of the day
Russian strikes left three individuals useless this Thursday in japanese Ukraine, within the Dnipropetrovsk area (central-east). On the similar time, 4 individuals had been killed in Ukrainian assaults in Russia and within the Crimea annexed. Within the Russian area of Belgorodbordering Ukraine, a person was killed and one other injured throughout a drone assault on a car. 500 km south of Moscow, a “3-year-old boy was killed” within the hearth that broke out in his home after a drone fell. The boy’s mother and father “undergo from varied accidents.”
Lastly, in Crimea, two individuals had been killed and 5 others, together with two kids, had been injured in a Ukrainian strike.
Sentence of the day
« It’s unacceptable to proceed arms deliveries to the kyiv regime »
The top of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrovwarned his American counterpart Marco Rubio throughout a gathering in Manila, the Russian International Ministry mentioned in a press release.
This primary assembly between the 2 diplomats since September 2025, organized on the sidelines of an ASEAN assembly within the Philippines, comes as American mediation efforts between kyiv and Moscow have been at a standstill because the begin of the war in the Middle East finish of February.
The development
There was discuss of fish, oil, fuel and visas… After weeks of negotiations, the Europeans lastly reached an settlement to inflict new sanctions on Russiaat the price of a number of setbacks in comparison with the preliminary proposal. Achieved within the morning, this compromise makes it potential to proceed to restrict Moscow’s oil revenues, which finance a big a part of its conflict in Ukraine.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
It extends for one yr a system capping the value of oil exported by Russia, at 44 {dollars} per barrel. This choice might price Moscow some $3.5 billion, in response to Brussels.
