[Korrespondent] 23:28 Russia is the main rogue country in the world. After the aggression against Ukraine, one should not have expected anything else. Moreover, Russian politicians are being expelled with a bang even from where they are still allowed out of old memory. For example, at the G20 summit in Bali, his place was publicly pointed out to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Read more in the material Flight in disgrace .
23:24 Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher did not rule out that Pope Francis could visit Ukraine in August.
23:10 Russia's aggression against Ukraine has caused a global food crisis, Borrell said at the G20 meeting: "The aggressive war against Ukraine has dramatically aggravated the food crisis. In just two years, the number of people under serious food risk has doubled - from 135 million before the COVID-pandemic 19 to 276 million at the beginning of 2022 and to 323 million now.Now, with this war, 1.2 billion people - one in six people in the world - are in difficult circumstances associated with rising food prices, energy and more tight financial conditions.
| Per Russia, there would be no famine if only everyone surrendered ... every time. Not their fault people choose destruction and mass suicide every single time. |
| In the old days they were called prison camps or concentration camps, where the target population was corralled... and occasionally some happened to die, which was always very sad. |
22:15 The new HIMARS MLRS, which the United States will supply to Ukraine, shoot even farther and have greater accuracy than previously transferred samples, writes the Financial Times, citing an unnamed Pentagon representative. Previously transferred shells hit 70 km, while HIMARS itself, when equipped with appropriate missiles, hits up to 300 km.
21:26 The French city of Dunkers is starting a partnership with Bucha, President of the Senate of the French Republic Gerard Larcher said at a joint briefing with Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk following a visit to Kiev. In addition, according to him, the Ile-de-France region is starting a partnership with the Chernihiv region.
20:52 Romania has restored the old railway line to increase the export of Ukrainian grain. The branch connects the river port of Galati on the Danube with Ukraine, it was restored in a month, Romanian Minister of Transport Sorin Grindeanu said.
| Only a month? Impressive! |
20:44 In Ukraine, they can reduce the minimum temperature in residential premises in winter from 20 to 16 degrees, Minister of Energy German Galushchenko said on the air of the telethon. According to him, this issue is now being discussed, the Cabinet of Ministers is analyzing the experience of European states before lowering the temperature regime in houses and apartments.
20:31 The Pentagon announced that Washington today will announce a new $400 million military aid package for Kiev , which will include long-range precision-guided weapons. Including the new tranche , Ukraine will receive a total of 12 American HIMARS MLRS , the Pentagon said. The United States is also discussing with partners the possibility of supplying Ukraine with coastal defense systems, and plans are already being worked out for the supply of new weapons "for months and years in advance."
20:13 The "authorities" of the occupied territory of the Kharkiv region have introduced martial law "to ensure order and security."
20:01 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine showed a documentary about how help was delivered to the defenders of Mariupol. In the film, the fighters of the GUR and the Azov regiment talk about how ammunition, medicines, food, and also the military were delivered to the city. At the same time, helicopters were able to pick up the wounded.
19:37 Podolyak said in an interview with Channel 24 that "a certain turning point" in the war is already beginning. According to him, over the past week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 16 positions where Russian barracks and ammunition depots were located.
19:24 The Ukrainian military forced the Russians to move away from the settlement in the Kramatorsk direction, and also repelled the enemy’s offensive in the Kharkiv, Slavyansk, Bakhmut and Yuzhnobuzh directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening report .
19:12 Canada has granted Germany's request to unblock supplies of Siemens turbines for Nord Stream, Reuters writes, citing a source in the German government. According to him, Canada has decided to return the turbine - it will be transferred to Germany, and Berlin will already transfer it to Gazprom so that Ottawa does not violate its own sanctions.
The Kremlin, commenting on the situation with the possible return of the turbine, openly stated that this would increase gas supplies to Germany, which admitted the day before the impossibility of timely filling its underground storage facilities.
18:51 European railways want to increase their assistance to Ukraine to facilitate grain exports. According to Spiegel, about 30 railway workers are planning on Saturday, July 9, to sign the Ukrainian Declaration in Vienna, where they will fix the principles of assistance to our country.
18:24 Water supply has been completely stopped in Mariupol. The official reason is repair work, but in reality, the power grids could not stand the heat, according to Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city. According to him, the operation of even one pumping station is impossible due to a blackout.
18:13 Residents of Melitopol cannot bury their relatives for a week, as the occupiers have seized the city morgue, local media report. After the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the military base at the airfield in Melitopol with a missile attack, the invaders began to take the corpses of the military to the morgue, but the Ukrainian forensic experts refused to cooperate with them. it is impossible to bury a person without problems. Relatives are told that they can bury, but then they will have to carry out an exhumation to confirm the fact of a non-violent death.
17:52 In the village of Kiselevka, Kherson region, the Polymer plant is on fire, which probably housed a warehouse of the Russian military, said the deputy of the regional council, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan.
17:33 The Ukrainian military destroyed two command posts of the Russian army in the Kherson direction, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine, said on the air of the telethon. According to her, additional reconnaissance is currently being carried out on the results of these hits.
17:27 Reznikov said that the strength of the Ukrainian army and security forces is now more than 1 million people. In particular, according to him, this includes the Armed Forces of Ukraine - up to 700 thousand people, the National Police - up to 100 thousand, the National Guard - up to 90 thousand, border guards - up to 60 thousand.
17:24 Reznikov named three possible scenarios for the end of the war with Russia:
- The first is the "good will" of the Russians, the same as when they fled from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy regions and Zmeiny Island: "I think that it will be divided into several chains. First, we will take positions until February 24 of this year, then there will be some talk about the status of previously occupied Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea, but at the table with our powerful partners."
- The second option is "gradually we will grind the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, because this is really a war of resource against resource. They have more people, territory, tanks, aircraft, etc., but everything is outdated, everything is ancient, and today they use the principle of a meat grinder ". This scenario, according to the minister, will not be quick: "Until the end of this year, perhaps with the capture of the beginning of the new year."
- The third scenario is the most dramatic for Moscow, it is the collapse of the Russian Federation into several different subjects: "We will definitely see this in our lifetime, but this is a bit of a long story."
Reznikov stressed that there would definitely be no Minsk-3, as well as no capitulation agreements: "No one will negotiate with a barrel at the temple."
17:15 Greece and Bulgaria have completed the construction of the IGB gas pipeline-interconnector worth 220 million euros, through which Azerbaijani gas will be pumped, Reuters writes. The initial capacity of the gas pipeline is 3 billion cubic meters. m per year, but can be increased to 5 billion.
5:10 pm Lavrov did not attend most of the afternoon session of the G20 meeting in Indonesia, Borrell said. The Guardian writes that Borrell described Lavrov's behavior as disrespectful - the Russian minister left the event, saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not the cause of the global food crisis and that sanctions aimed at isolating the Russian Federation are tantamount to a declaration of war.
17:08 Mexico will remain neutral regarding the war in Ukraine, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on the eve of his visit to Washington next week. At the same time, he hopes for a ceasefire.
16:59 In Mariupol, in the Volonterovka microdistrict of the Kalmiussky district, people gathered at a school demanding to urgently solve the problem with drinking water, electricity and transport links. About 3,000 people, including at least 200 children, remain cut off from the minimum basic conditions of existence. Most of the men from this microdistrict are still in the filtration colony in Sedovo, which makes it impossible to solve problems on their own, said Petr Andryushchenko, the mayor's adviser.
The protest meeting took place after the death in the middle of the street of two pensioners who tried to overcome kilometers from Volonterovka to the center of the district in the heat. According to Andryushchenko, the local "authorities" tried to make new promises, but in the end they simply fled under the protection of Russian submachine gunners.
16:54 Russian troops have increased the presence of their military equipment at the Belarusian airfield Zyabrovka, reports Belaruski Gayun. So, at the airfield, they noticed: a division of ten units of the S-400 Triumph air defense system, two units of the Pantsir air defense missile system, 5N66 low-altitude detectors, a 92N6E illumination and guidance radar, buried and disguised infantry fighting vehicles and tanks. Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Lukashenka gave Zyabrovka under the possession of the Russian Federation, the Russians are equipping a military base there and have already brought Iskander-M.
16:40 Zelensky, standing next to the front line, addressed the people and politicians of Slovenia: "In fact, we all know that the dream of a peaceful, free and stable Europe cannot be realized without Ukraine as part of the EU. That is why Russia launched a large-scale offensive against Europe from Ukraine, because in Moscow they are fully aware of the importance of Ukraine for the European project. And that is why Russia will inevitably lose, because Europe will not be split, not divided into parts, as it was before. The eastern border of Europe is now equal to the eastern border of Ukraine, and one day it is on our eastern border that marks will be placed: the territory of the European Union."
16:27 In Nova Kakhovka, collaborator Sergei Tomka was killed. The occupiers appointed the former policeman as "deputy chief of the city police department" in the city. His Opel car was blown up yesterday afternoon, the details are being specified, Anton Gerashchenko said.
16:06 The Cabinet of Ministers canceled the decision on the list of critical imports for which it is allowed to buy foreign currency on the interbank market, the NBU reports. This will allow businesses to buy foreign currency and import any marketable products from July 9. However, restrictions on the import of services will remain.
15:59 Canada has expanded anti-Russian sanctions to include Patriarch Kirill, a number of media outlets, including Regnum, Channel One, VGTRK, RT, Sputnik and others, as well as Roskomnadzor and Rossotrudnichestvo. In addition, Canada has imposed a ban on the import of Russian gold and a number of items made from it.
15:56 Ukraine de facto is already becoming a member of NATO, Reznikov said at the Forbes Ukraine conference: "If we say that Ukraine is not yet considered by NATO countries as a full member de jure, because there should be a consensus among NATO countries, but we, in in fact, we are already becoming a member country of the de facto alliance, because we are on the eastern flank, they give us NATO equipment, we have already mastered more than 30 NATO standards, etc."
According to the minister, the only thing that worries Ukraine's partners is paragraph 5, which they would very much not like to apply if Ukraine became a member of the alliance: "But I will tell you seriously that our partners from the Baltic countries and Poland already feel the imperfection of paragraph 5 in the NATO alliance agreement."
15:53 The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the G20 countries, following a two-day meeting in Bali, could not reach a consensus on the situation in Ukraine, Associated Press reports. Unlike past summits, there were no group photos, no final communiqué, and disagreements seemed to be widespread, especially between Russia and Western participants in the meeting, the agency notes. Consensus has proved elusive as the East-West divide deepens, with China and Russia on one side and Europe and the US on the other.
15:48 A Russian mine has been brought into the Dniester estuary in the Odessa region. In the near future, sappers will destroy it in the water, said Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the coordinating press center for the protection and defense forces of the South.
15:37 This year, the harvest for the peasants turned out to be dangerous, because they have to work in a minefield. And the number of cases of detonation of mines on farmland is growing. In order not to have to pay for the harvest with human lives, agricultural producers invite sappers to the fields who carry out humanitarian demining. About how this will affect the end consumer - in the material will bread rise in price .
15:26 The Turn Back Alive Foundation purchased 100 unmanned aerial systems from the Latvian company Atlas for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is a special military development, which is in service in a number of NATO countries. According to the head of the fund, Taras Chmut, last year the development passed a full cycle of tests in the Ukrainian special operations forces.
He clarified that 100 complexes are 300 tricopters + ground control stations, repeaters, protected tablets, several target loading options and a set of spare parts and tools. The purchase price was 5 million euros. Drones have secure communication channels, they are used to correct artillery fire, as well as for reconnaissance.
15:16 Based on the materials of the SBU, the corporate rights and real estate of 11 enterprises were seized, the ultimate beneficiaries of which are Rosneft, Rosatom and Gazprom. In the course of operational and investigative actions, it was established that part of the profits of these enterprises went to the preparation and conduct of the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, as well as to finance the activities of the DRG.
The approximate total value of corporate rights arrested by the court exceeds UAH 2.1 billion. They also seized 46 real estate objects owned by them.
15:08 "DPR Parliament" announced that it had lifted the moratorium on the execution of death sentences.
14:42 Zelensky is on a visit to the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to Yermak, a meeting has already been held with Ukrainian soldiers at the forefront, and a meeting chaired by the president on the situation in the region, the state of affairs in military units and subdivisions has already been held in the Krivoy Rog region.
14:23 According to Nikolaev since the morning rocket attack which fell on industrial infrastructure was caused, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported.
14:20 In Slavyansk and other cities in the north of the Donetsk region, it will be impossible to organize a heating season, Mayor Vadim Lyakh said. He explained that it is impossible to supply gas to the cities, and the electricity networks will not withstand the load due to electric heaters: “Even now, with a small number of people, the networks cannot withstand the load. And when electric heaters are added to electric stoves and electric pumps, collapse will come.” According to him, the only way out is to have a minimum number of people in the cities during the heating season.
14:16 Zelensky, in an interview with CNN, commented on reports that he allegedly conveyed a message to Putin: “I don’t consider him a person who needs something special. A special message. We have a bloody war that Russia unleashed on our territory. I just would like him to realize that he did exactly this. And that he realizes that for today he can specifically complete it. That's the whole message. And the choice is his."
The president also noted that the war could end before the end of 2022: "If our country is as united as it is now, if powerful weapons come from our partners to us on time and if luck and God are on our side, then we will be able to do a lot of things be done by the end of this year, and Russia will be forced to sit down at the negotiating table."
14:12 An ammunition depot in occupied Shakhtersk in the "DPR" is still on fire after a night shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Russian media, the shells detonate, scattering within a radius of 5-6 km. There are damages in the nearby houses, windows are broken, the evacuation of residents from the most dangerous areas is organized. Movement towards Shakhtyorsk is limited.
14:09 In Russia, the first verdict was passed in the case of "fakes" about the RF Armed Forces. The court sentenced municipal deputy Aleksey Gorinov to seven years in a penal colony for criticizing the Russian army and suggesting a minute of silence in memory of the fallen citizens of Ukraine. Right before the announcement, Gorinov began to applaud in the hall. For this, the bailiffs took out all the listeners, leaving only the press.
14:07 The Russians are turning Melitopol into a military town, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. According to him, a few hours ago, in the New Melitopol area, under the railway overpass, the occupiers deployed their air defense. They also place weapons in residential areas, repair equipment from all over the south at the Gauleiter factory. At the same time, equipment is being withdrawn towards the Crimea, making it inaccessible to new artillery systems. According to Fedorov, they don’t have the strength to attack Zaporozhye now, but they are not going to leave Melitopol either.
The mayor also said that more than 500 people were held hostage by the occupiers in four months. Someone was released for money, two were taken to the Crimea and convicted as terrorists, and someone "is tortured so that people can't move on their own."
14:02 Lavrov, in response to the boycott at the G20 meeting, did not come to Kuleba's speech, AFP reports.
13:59 Today, at about 10:00, the Russian army fired an X-31 type cruise missile from a Su-30 aircraft from the Black Sea towards the Odessa region, which was heading for the coast, but exploded over the sea, OK Pivden reported.
13:52 Zelensky considers NATO's denial of Ukraine's membership a historical mistake: "Now we are talking about security guarantees for Ukraine, and about weapons, and about financial support, but it was possible simply, by uniting, to take Ukraine into NATO. <...> For Ukraine, they always found reasons why we shouldn't be there, but Sweden and Finland were accepted right away. The decision was right, but in relation to Ukraine it was wrong, historically wrong."
13:45 "Deputy head of administration" of the Kherson region, collaborator Kirill Stremousov claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, as a result of the strike there are victims. At the same time, the air defense system allegedly repelled the attack.
13:27 Zelensky commented on the situation at the front in an interview with CNN: "The situation in the east is very difficult for us. We have a different situation throughout the country, but the most difficult is in the Donbass. They have more artillery, MLRS, victims, but they don't count equipment, they don’t count losses, but we count our people first of all, because our people are our weapons.”
The president also confirmed that Russians control most of the Luhansk region, "but everything is destroyed there": "To be honest, I don't even understand such ambitions - what they control. They destroyed cities, schools. What did they occupy? They are occupiers of the ruins of the Lugansk region."
13:14 The United States appealed to Moscow with a request to recognize the Americans captured in Ukraine who fought for the Armed Forces of Ukraine as combatants, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov said. To which Ryabkov replied that the issue of status was within the competence of the "DPR". "We have repeatedly warned the citizens of a group of states unfriendly to Russia to refrain from adventurous plans to prove themselves on the battlefield in Ukraine," the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said.
12:56 Russia does not abandon its plans to seize the entire territory of Ukraine, Zelensky said in an interview with CNN. According to him, these are their plans, and they have remained unchanged for many years: “First politically, then it was Crimea, then Donbass, and now a full-scale invasion. Therefore, Russia’s plans include both a change in political leadership and the occupation of the entire country - we are absolutely sure of it."
12:35 Canada will send 39 General Dynamics armored vehicles to Ukraine this summer, Defense Minister Anita Anand said. The equipment can be used as ambulances, repair and recovery vehicles and for the transport of troops. The party is part of Canada's $500 million military support budgeted for Ukraine back in April.
12:33 The speaker of the Odesa OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk, specified that in the occupied Nova Kakhovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the ammunition depot and enemy air defense. According to local media, at least 44 invaders were killed and many were wounded.
12:31 Peskov clarified Putin's words that "Russia has not yet started anything seriously" in Ukraine: "The head of state appealed to those statements that are heard from Western countries, from Kiev, that Kiev will move on the battlefield until to victory. Here, Putin thus recalled that the potentials are completely incommensurable. Russia's potential is so great in this regard that only an insignificant part of it is now being used in the course of a special military operation."
| There are nukes, I suppose, but otherwise they’ve already pulled the 1970s tanks and WWI rifles out of storage... |
11:55 Eight servicemen from the "DPR", captured in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, were sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 15 years, the SBU reported. They were convicted under two articles - treason and the creation of illegal paramilitary groups.
11:53 The Embassy of Belgium announced that from July 11 it will resume work in Kiev.
11:45 In the Kherson region, there is a consistent destruction of the enemy in the rear, said the deputy of the regional council Serhiy Khlan. So, according to him, yesterday there was another blow to the accumulation of enemy equipment in Chernobaevka, today - hitting the ammunition depot in Novaya Kakhovka.
11:42 Blinken at the G20 meeting demanded that the Russian Federation unblock the export of Ukrainian grain, one of the Western officials told Reuters: "He [Blinken] turned directly to the Russian Federation and said: Ukraine is not your country. Its grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking ports? You must release the grain."
| That’ll do the trick, fer sure. High fives and whiskeys all around in celebration. |
Lavrov himself told reporters that Western partners "are trying to avoid talking about global economic problems," and instead "are starting a feverish criticism of Russia because of the situation in Ukraine." "Aggressors, invaders, occupiers - we heard a lot of things," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
11:15 Scholz said on the air of the ZDF TV channel that Germany will support Ukraine, despite the economic problems and the gas crisis, as long as it is necessary. At the same time, the chancellor stressed that "it is possible to act only with the support of citizens," and added that "it will probably be for a very long time." According to him, "it is impossible to agree that one country attacks another and says: I will now steal a piece of your land from you, it now belongs to me."
11:07 In Nikolaev rocket attacks became frequent. According to the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim, the Russians are converting S-300 missiles from air defense into attack weapons, which is why their strikes may be inaccurate.
10:53 The Russians fired from the MLRS on their own positions near Neskuchnoye on the border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions, the Zaporizhzhya OVA reported. As a result, one occupier was killed and two more were wounded, and the enemy's ammunition depot was also destroyed.
10:45 Luhansk region is not completely captured, fighting is still going on in two settlements, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, there is no operational pause on the part of the Russians, the shelling does not subside. Moreover, additional tank units of the Russian Federation went into battle.
Gaidai said that it is difficult to leave the region, but it is possible - through the territory of Russia to other countries. Russians demand money for passing through checkpoints, and they have no clear tariffs. Ukrainian mobile communications in the region are disabled, critical infrastructure in cities and villages where hostilities took place is almost 100% destroyed.
10:36 More than 70% of Russian missiles and shells fired at Ukraine do not reach the target, said Alexei Gromov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has made 6443 sorties of operational-tactical aviation. In total, 626 strikes were carried out by cruise missiles of the Iskander and Kalibr type.
09:54 About 20 servicemen dressed as Russian pilots have arrived in the Belarusian city of Baranovichi, reports Belaruski Gayun. Also on July 6, in the city of Ivanovo, an awning MAZ of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus was seen, in the back of which there were 15-20 people. On the same day, a MAZ of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus was spotted along the M1 highway from Minsk in the direction of Brest, which was transporting three missiles for the S-300 air defense system.
| Subtext: Like the song says — every move you make, we’ll be watching you. Or contrariwise, the Russian pilots are coming, so be afraid. |
09:50 NASA criticized Russia for using the ISS to promote the invasion of Ukraine. The agency said that the use of the International Space Station for political purposes is fundamentally incompatible with its main function among the 15 participating countries - to promote science and develop technology for peaceful purposes. Earlier, Roscosmos published a photo of three Russian cosmonauts on the ISS with the flags of the "LPR" and "DPR".
09:48 Kharkiv was not shelled for the first time in several weeks, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. However, shelling continued in the region: during the day, two people were injured in the Chuguevsky district, two more civilians were injured and one was killed in Tsirkuny, Kharkov district.
09:45 Lavrov said that Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine and Turkey on the export of Ukrainian grain. According to him, to resolve the issue, Ukraine must clear its ports or ensure safe passage through minefields, and outside the territorial sea of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and Turkey are allegedly ready to ensure the safety of ships.
09:43 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev in the morning, information about the victims and destruction is being specified, the OVA reported. In the Bashtansky district, the Bereznegovatoe village is being shelled, according to preliminary information, there is destruction of infrastructure facilities and residential buildings. And as a result of the shelling of the village of Ukrainka, Galitsyn community, two people were killed.
09:39 British intelligence reports that the Russians are concentrating equipment on the front line in the direction of Seversk, the Russian forces have taken a break to replenish supplies before starting new offensive operations in the Donetsk region.
| Operational pause. I don’t recall our guys doing one of those in Iraq in 2003, but possibly I didn’t understand what I was seeing. |
09:34 At the summit of G20 foreign ministers in Bali, general photography was canceled - the participants did not want to take a general picture with Lavrov. Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced his unwillingness to be photographed with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, his example was followed by other representatives of the G7 countries. They also didn't come to the G20 common dinner. Lavrov commented on the situation as follows: "I also did not invite anyone to be photographed."
09:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 8. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk direction.
- personnel - about 36,900 (+250) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1637 (+35),
- armored combat vehicles - 3811 (+14),
- artillery systems - 828 (+13),
- MLRS - 247 (+0),
- air defense systems - 107 (+0),
- aircraft - 217 (+0),
- helicopters - 187 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 669 (+2),
- cruise missiles - 155 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2685 (+20),
- special equipment - 66 (+0).
08:47 The troops of the Russian Federation continue to advance in the Bakhmut direction, and in the Slavic direction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the next attempt of the offensive, the invaders were thrown back, they retreated with losses, the General Staff reports in the morning summary .
08:45 Ukrainian-hit drilling platforms in the Black Sea are still on fire, OSINT-88 reports, citing July 7 satellite imagery data.
08:43 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, six civilians were killed: one each in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Avdeevka, Seversk, Pokrovsk and Orlovka. Another 21 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:41 As a result of night shelling in Slavyansk, a woman was killed after a direct hit in a private house, the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh said.
08:23 In the "DNR"-controlled Shakhtyorsk, after a missile strike, the evacuation of residents began, local publics report. It is also reported that the blow fell on the ammunition depot, which began to detonate.
08:21 China rejects any outside attempts to interfere in its relations with the Russian Federation, demonstrating the "steadfastness" and "strategic determination" of its ties with partners, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. Wang Yi assured that Beijing will support "all efforts to promote a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine."
08:15 The Russians fired on the Krivoy Rog region, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. In the Zelenodolsk community, the blow fell on a summer cottage and a park area, in the Apostolevsky community, windows in a house were shattered by a blast wave. There were no casualties.
08:03 Romania will be able to provide gas supplies to Ukraine, Prime Minister Nicolae Chuca said. This was made possible thanks to a pipeline from Greece to Bulgaria, writes Digi24.
07:46 In order to reach the administrative border of the Lugansk region, the Russians are destroying the surrounding villages with artillery, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. So, according to him, of all types of heavy weapons, they do not stop striking at Belogorovka and Zolotarevka, they use cannon and rocket artillery. The situation is similar in the settlements of the Donetsk region, which are located near the border with the Luhansk region.
04:57 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that Russian forces are likely to create conditions for a simultaneous assault on Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. According to analysts, Russian troops made little progress southeast of Seversk and continued their offensive operations west of Lysichansk. Also, Russian troops continued to advance south and east of Bakhmut and carried out an unsuccessful attack north of Kharkov.
In addition, it is reported that temporary volunteer detachments continue to be created in the Russian regions to compensate for the loss of personnel in the war in Ukraine.
00:35 Johnson's resignation will not affect NATO's continued efforts to support Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: "Our alliance with the UK remains strong. At the historic NATO summit in Madrid, participants agreed to continue to support Ukraine, and this will not change."