Official summaries, comments by politicians, expert assessments
MK is broadcasting events around Ukraine online. It is the 497th day of the special military operation. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg acknowledged that the Ukrainian counter-offensive is facing challenges on the battlefield. The media report that the North Atlantic Alliance did not rule out the transfer of nuclear weapons to Poland.
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Putin signed a decree on the legal status of Russians with Ukrainian citizenship
Ukraine complained to UEFA about calling a Russian referee to the training camp
Le Monde: Finnish President Niiniste admitted that the departure of national companies from Russia turned out to be a mistake, since sanctions of this kind could not destroy the Russian economy.
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Ministry of digits of Ukraine: an air raid alert has been declared in Kiev, Kirovograd, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Odessa and Cherkasy regions.
Former US Ambassador to Russia Sullivan said that a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is possible, but it will be temporary.
Rogozin spoke about the British Storm Shadow missile captured by the Russian military
RIA Novosti: The building of the Ukraine store caught fire in Yasinovataya after shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Zelensky accused Russia of Ukraine's problems with getting a place in NATO
Czech President Petr Pavel: since February 2022, Prague has transferred 676 pieces of heavy equipment to Kiev .
Voenkor Kotenok: Russian "calibers" hit a military facility in Lviv.
French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre criticized the statement of her Russian colleague Maria Zakharova that weapons supplied by the West to Kiev fell into the hands of rioters in French cities.
American activists said that cluster shells, which Washington intends to deliver to Kiev, Ukrainians themselves will be maimed for decades.
The Ukrainian agency Strana.ua reports explosions in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Rogov: The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked new reserves in the Zaporozhye region.
Air raids were announced in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv regions of Ukraine, as well as in the parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions controlled by Kiev, according to the data of the online map of the Ministry of Digital Transformation countries.
The United States intends to carefully select cluster munitions for Ukraine, giving preference to projectiles with a low rate of unexploded bombs, Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said on Thursday.
A plane of the Czech Defense Ministry carrying Volodymyr Zelensky, who arrived from Sofia, landed in Prague, according to Czech TV.
Ukrainian sources report explosions in the Sumy region.
The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, tried to justify himself in an interview with Reuters for a slow offensive, saying that Russian forces also did not immediately take Artemovsk.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valeriy Zaluzhny, in a telephone conversation with the Chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff (CNS) of the US Armed Forces Mark Milley, stated that the Ukrainian offensive is proceeding «according to plan», and again asked for weapons.
< p> Ukrainian troops fired at Yasinovataya, firing 10 rockets from MLRS, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday officially confirmed his visit to Prague and also announced talks with Czech President Petr Pavel.
pulled out from the line of contact almost the whole British cruise missile Storm Shadow, it was handed over to specialized specialists for study, the head of the Military-Technical Center «Tsarskie Wolves» told RIA Novosti on Thursday. Dmitry Rogozin.
Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference in Sofia said that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev refused to provide Ukraine with weapons as assistance.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said that several air targets were shot down on approach to Belgorod. According to Mash, a large oil storage facility and a power substation in the Belgorod region were attacked by nine aircraft-type drones.
The Kakhovka reservoir not only became shallow after the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, but it no longer exists, said the acting head of the governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.
Today's strike on the reserves of Ukraine was targeted by Western equipment and militants Lvov, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti.
Finland is tightening entry rules for Russian students, businessmen and property owners from July 10, the Foreign Ministry reported.
The operational services of the Yeysk region received information about the discovery of debris, presumably a drone, there were no injuries and infrastructure damage, the operational headquarters of the region reported.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged captured servicemen today. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 45 Russian soldiers have been returned from captivity.
The Security Service of Ukraine announced on Thursday in its Telegram channel that it had charged Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy in absentia with treason.< /p>
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports in its summary for July 6:
— The RF Armed Forces repulsed nine attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
— Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the fighting in the Donetsk direction amounted to 385 soldiers per day;
— The RF Armed Forces struck accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the west of Kleshcheevka;
— The RF Armed Forces hit the control posts of the 118th Terodefense Brigade, the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 4th National Guard Brigade in the DPR;
— The actions of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed in the Krasnolimansk direction;
— The RF Armed Forces repelled four attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction;
— Russian troops destroyed up to 130 Ukrainian soldiers and a Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer in the Kherson direction;
— The RF Armed Forces hit the command posts of three Ukrainian brigades in the DPR;
— Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnolimansky direction amounted to more than 90 servicemen;
— The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 165 soldiers killed, 3 armored vehicles, including the Stryker armored personnel carrier;
— Russian air defense shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the DPR, intercepted 4 Storm Shadow missiles and 4 HIMARS MLRS shells;
— The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 40 military personnel and the M777 artillery system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction;
— The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novoselovsky area in the LPR.
The Russian Ministry of Defense:
Tonight, high-precision weapons hit the points of temporary deployment of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries, as well as storage sites for foreign-made armored vehicles.
All designated facilities were hit, the enemy's strategic reserves were significantly damaged.
Russian nuclear warheads intended to be moved to Belarus will be delivered to the republic before the end of the year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday, answering questions journalists.
Russia expels 9 Finnish diplomats and revokes consent to the activities of the Finnish Consulate General in St. Petersburg.
Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin «has neither the ability nor the desire» follow Yevgeny Prigozhin, the MK correspondent reports.
«No, we do not follow his movements,» he said, commenting on Alexander Lukashenko's statement that Prigozhin is in Russia, as well as PMC fighters
Peskov stressed that all statements about the relocation of Prigozhin himself and PMC Wagner to Belarus made on June 24 and later remain valid. At the same time, he refused to answer the question whether the absence of Prigozhin and the Wagnerites on the territory of the neighboring republic means that the agreements reached during the negotiations were violated.
Alexander Lukashenko made a number of statements at a meeting with journalists:
— Nuclear weapons will not be used during a special operation, this is only possible with NATO aggression;
— Europe, primarily France, is ready for negotiations on Ukraine. The US will be ready to negotiate on Ukraine after the counter-offensive of Kyiv, even unsuccessful;
— Belarus will sign a contract with Wagner if the structure is located in the country.
Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Bulgaria for negotiations on military assistance to Ukraine, on the Formula of Peace and the upcoming NATO summit.
Draft evaders will not be able to take the exam to obtain a driver's license, said the head of the traffic police.
Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced that he would make changes to the structure of the government and appoint General Dmitry Prokopov with combat experience as his deputy for interaction with law enforcement agencies.
whether Putin is Prigogine.
"As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in St. Petersburg. Where is he this morning? Maybe he went to Moscow in the morning. <…> As far as I am informed this morning, the fighters of the PMC «Wagner» are in their camps. In the permanent camps where they were after the withdrawal from the front for recovery, — told Lukashenka, as BelTA reports. He added that he sees no risks from deploying fighters on the territory of Belarus, and can use them to defend the country.
Turkish TV channel TGRT Haber reported that Ankara does not plan to approve Sweden's membership in NATO until Stockholm does steps that are expected of him.
An air raid alert has been declared in the Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine.
Pushilin: the entire Kleshcheevka is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Donetsk and Gorlovka.
The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Reserve stated that it will be possible to enter the territory of the Lower Lavra only from 11:00. Before that, there were reports that the police began to use force against the parishioners of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 30 shells at the DPR, the DPR representative office in the JCCC said.
Marochko reported on the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction.