Because the battle enters its 861st day, listed below are the highest developments.
Right here is the scenario on Friday, July 5, 2024.
Wrestle
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Two individuals have been killed and 26 others wounded in Russian strikes in areas of Ukraine stretching from the south to the east and northeast, Ukrainian authorities stated. A missile strike within the southern Odesa area killed one lady and wounded seven individuals, whereas a second lady was killed and a person wounded in an assault within the village of Ruska Lozova within the Kharkiv area.
- A six-year-old woman has died in hospital after a drone strike within the metropolis of Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia’s Krasnodar area, regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev stated. On Friday, he stated six individuals have been hospitalized after the assault.
- 9 individuals, together with 4 kids, have been injured in a drone assault and shelling within the city of Novohrodivka within the Donetsk area, on the entrance line of Ukraine’s entrance, in keeping with Governor Vadym Filashkin.
- Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak stated seven individuals have been wounded within the southern metropolis of Nikopol following a sequence of drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces. A wounded lady additionally died from accidents sustained Wednesday within the area’s essential metropolis, Dnipro. That assault had killed at the least seven individuals.
- Two civilians have been injured in a drone strike within the southern metropolis of Kherson, in keeping with the town authorities.
- Ukraine’s navy has introduced that its forces have withdrawn from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically essential city within the jap Donetsk area that has been lowered to rubble below a months-long Russian assault.
Politics and diplomacy
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In response to Radio Free Europe and the Monetary Occasions, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday. The Kremlin neither confirmed nor denied the go to. It might be the primary time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that Putin and Orban have met inside Russia.
- Earlier this week, Orban visited kyiv and urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to think about a ceasefire to hurry up the top of the battle with Russia. Hungary at the moment holds the rotating presidency of the European Union and a go to to Moscow would provoke fury within the bloc.
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to make his first go to to Russia because the invasion of Ukraine on July 8-9, juggling a fragile stability between sustaining a long-standing alliance with Moscow and looking for nearer safety ties with the West. He final visited Russia in 2019 and hosted Putin in New Delhi in 2021.
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A Russian navy court docket has remanded Col. Artyom Gorodilov, commander of the 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade, in pre-trial detention for 2 months on prices of large-scale fraud, in keeping with the state information company TASS. Gorodilov is the most recent in a sequence of high-ranking Russian navy officers and senior protection officers who’ve been arrested on corruption prices in current months.
Weapons
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Russia’s Protection Ministry is conducting workout routines with cell nuclear missile launchers, the Interfax information company reported. Crews of two Yars missile launchers will journey greater than 100 kilometers and apply camouflage and deployment, the company stated, with extra crews anticipated to affix the workout routines sooner or later.
- The Russian Protection Ministry additionally reported that its forces destroyed 50 Ukrainian drones each on Russian territory and in elements of Ukraine that it had annexed. Of those, 14 have been destroyed over Krasnodar, 26 over Zaporizhia and 10 over Rostov.