Because the conflict enters its 863rd day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Sunday, July 7, 2024.
Combating
- Russian shelling killed three civilians in Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, officers mentioned. Prosecutors mentioned two our bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a home that got here below hearth in a village close to Beryslav. In the meantime, the area’s governor, Oleksander Prokudin, mentioned an artillery strike within the night killed one individual in a village south of Kherson.
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Ukraine mentioned its air defence techniques destroyed all 13 drones that Russia launched. The air drive mentioned in an announcement on the Telegram messaging app that Russia additionally launched two Iskander ballistic missiles, however it didn’t say what occurred to the weapons.
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Citing the Russian Ministry of Defence, state information companies claimed that Iskander ballistic missiles destroyed two launchers for Patriot surface-to-air missile techniques in Ukraine’s Odesa area.
- The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned seven drones have been intercepted over the Belgorod area, which is subjected to near-daily Ukrainian assaults.
- Alexei Smirnov, governor of Kursk, additional north and west, additionally reported seven drones had been downed over the area. He mentioned Ukrainian forces had shelled about 10 villages over the course of the day.
- In the meantime, the Ukrainian Common Employees mentioned Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed 45 instances close to Pokrovsk over the day past. Hours later, the Russian Defence Ministry introduced its troops had captured a village some 30km (19 miles) east of the town.
- Russian strikes left some 100,000 households with out energy in northern Ukraine and minimize off the water provide to a regional capital, Ukrainian authorities reported, whereas civilian casualties rose sharply within the nation’s embattled east. The northern Sumy area, which borders Russia, was plunged into darkness after Russian strikes beginning late on Friday broken vitality infrastructure, the Ukrainian Ministry of Vitality mentioned.
Weapons
- Ukraine’s air drive duped Russian troops into deploying missiles towards subtle mock-up weapons and army tools put in place to seem like army targets, its commander Mykola Oleshchuk mentioned. A video connected to his Telegram submit, described as footage from a Russian reconnaissance drone, confirmed what Oleshchuk mentioned have been Russian Iskander missiles attacking the simulated weapons.