Portal:Current events/2022 July 28
July 28, 2022
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych says that an operation to recapture the Kherson Oblast has started. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Donbas
- Russian forces shell Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast with the BM-27 Uragan MLRS, killing three civilians and injuring three others. Six apartment blocks and six detached houses are also destroyed or damaged. (Ukrinform)
- 2022 Ukraine summer counteroffensive
- Belarusian involvement in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces in Belarus launch 25 ballistic missiles into northern Ukraine. (The Guardian)
- Russia launches cruise missile strikes from the Black Sea on the Kyiv Oblast for the first time in weeks, with missiles striking Bucha, Lyutizh, and Vyshhorod. At least fifteen people, including five civilians, are injured, according to Kyiv governor Oleksiy Kuleba. (AP) (Axios)
- Russian missiles strike Kropyvnytskyi, damaging facilities owned by Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy and Air Urga. Five people are killed and 25 others are injured. (Yahoo! News)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- At least 17 people are killed and 40 others are injured in skirmishes between groups of pro-Assad and anti-government residents in As Suwayda, Syria. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Cameras are allowed to film a criminal court case in England and Wales for the first time in history as a man, Ben Oliver, is sentenced to prison at the Old Bailey for manslaughter on live television. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- 2022 Russia–European Union gas dispute
- Authorities in Hanover, Germany, turn off heating and switch to cold showers in all public buildings, and also shut off public water fountains amid an energy crisis after Gazprom reduced gas supplies to Germany through its Nord Stream pipeline. (BBC News)
- Authorities in Berlin turn off lights at historic monuments and municipal buildings in the city in order to save electricity. (The Guardian)
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- The United States enters a technical recession after its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter. (The Guardian) (The Times)
- 2020–present global chip shortage
- The United States Congress passes the Chips and Science Act of 2022 in order to boost semiconductor production in the United States and also boost competition with China. The bill will head to President Joe Biden for his signature. (CNBC)
- Hamas authorities raise taxes on imported clothes and other goods as prices increase due to the war in Ukraine and an ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Eastern Kentucky floods
- Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear declares a state of emergency for several counties in southeastern Kentucky due to historic floods, which have killed three people. (WLEX-TV)
- Four people are killed and nine others are injured in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Tehran, Iran. (AP)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Africa
- Ahmed Ogwell, head of the Africa CDC, reports that there are currently no monkeypox or smallpox vaccines available in Africa to combat the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. (Time)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer says that New York has received 110,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine. (New York Post)
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Africa
International relations
- Iran–Israel relations
- Iranian police arrest the alleged leader and four other members of a spy network suspected to be affiliated with Mossad. (Al Jazeera)
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