Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,254 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key events on day 1,254 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Friday, August 1:

Fighting

• Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, killing 16 people, including two children, and wounding more than 100 others, officials in the Ukrainian capital said. Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed it targeted and hit Ukrainian military airfields and ammunition depots as well as businesses linked to what it called Kyiv’s…