[Korrespondent] 22.27 At one of the locations in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, the clearing of rubble and the search for people are still ongoing. Only here five dead have been found and eight more are unaccounted for. As of 22:00, 25 people have already died as a result of the Russian attack.
Rescuers will work non-stop until the rubble is completely cleared. More victims may be found.
22.19 Negotiations have taken place over the past two days between Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Yesterday there was a conversation between Umerov and Kushner, and the day before that there was a conversation between them, and so on," the president said, without specifying what exactly they talked about.
Zelensky said he still hopes for a visit to Ukraine by the US president's son-in-law and envoy Steve Witkoff, despite the fact that US-backed peace efforts to end the war have been at a standstill for several months.
"They should come, understand the situation and explain to Russia what it should do: sit down quickly, start negotiations and stop the war," the head of state said.
21.53 Six agreements have been signed in the Drone Deal format to date, and more than 20 countries are working to join this model. This was announced by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov.
Each agreement is concluded for ten years and provides for the export of production and technology, as well as the development of defense cooperation.
"Drone Deal combines four key areas: expert security assistance - consultations and analytics of our military in partner countries; export of combat-tested solutions; localization of production in the territory of partners, in particular in the Build with Ukraine and Build in Ukraine formats; special projects - cyber cooperation, protection of critical infrastructure, satellite projects, etc.," Umerov noted.
According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, to make everything work quickly and simply, a Fast Track resolution was adopted for the Drone Deal. The processing time for export applications is reduce d from 90 to 30 days for goods that are not on the list of critical products.
21.28 More than 70 heads of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations visited the site of large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure in Kyiv as a result of a combined attack by the Russian Federation.
Foreign diplomats learned about the progress of search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian missile strike, which destroyed an apartment building.
Representatives of the foreign diplomatic corps were once again called upon to increase pressure on Russia in order to force it to end the war and sit down at the negotiating table, as well as to significantly increase support for Ukraine, in particular by providing it with a sufficient number of air defense systems and missiles to protect the lives of Ukrainians.
21.07 The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv has risen to 23 people.
20.55 The number of victims of the Russian strike on an educational institution in Sumy has increased to 11 people. This was reported by the Sumy City Council. It is noted that three children are among the victims. All of them live near the site of the strike and were nearby during the strike. Some of the victims were provided with medical assistance on the spot. A 56-year-old woman is in the hospital and is undergoing examination. Other victims were provided with outpatient care.
20.30 During the warning events in Kamyanske in the Dnipropetrovsk region on July 2, a man threw a grenade at a police and military RTCC, all three were injured. This was reported by the police of the Dnipropetrovsk region. It is noted that during the verification of military registration documents, a 50-year-old man, who violated the rules of military registration, activated a grenade and threw it. As a result of the explosion, all three were injured and hospitalized.
20.09 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after another massive shelling of Ukraine by Russia, is waiting for a positive response from US President Donald Trump regarding Patriot licenses.
According to Zelensky, strengthening air defense should be one of the key outcomes of the upcoming NATO summit and other international negotiations.
"If, of course, NATO still means something to the allies. Europe must have its own sufficient capacity to defend itself against all types of threats, including this one - from Russian ballistics," the president noted.
Zelensky noted that talks with the US administration about Patriot production licenses have been ongoing for a long time. He thanked all countries that help Ukraine through the PURL program, which allows it to purchase air defense missiles, in particular, Patriot complexes.
"But to truly reliably protect lives, we need our own production. European production here, in Ukraine, or together with partners, would, of course, support the United States in operations when necessary. We are very much counting on President Trump's positive response to protect lives," the president said.
19.32 Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov sent letters to almost 40 partner countries with a request to urgently transfer Patriot missiles from existing stocks to Ukraine this month - in exchange for future deliveries contracted for Ukraine. And also with a call to make contributions to the PURL and JUMPSTART mechanisms. These are the fastest and most reliable ways to supply the necessary missiles to Patriot. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense.
19.00 As a result of a large-scale Russian attack in Kyiv, 22 people were killed and another 100 were injured. This was reported by the National Police and the KMVA.
All fires in Kyiv have been extinguished. Two helicopters carried out 131 water drops, dropping over 300 tons on the centers of large-scale fires.
18.55 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that a meeting will be held at the NATO summit in Ankara on the Freya air and missile defense system program, after which the dates of the leaders' meeting on this program will be announced, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
18.18 The aggressor country Russia will receive a response for the massive strike on Kyiv on the night of Thursday, July 2. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the site of the enemy "arrival" in the Darnytsia district of the capital.
17.54 The total losses of Ukraine and Russia since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022 have exceeded 2 million people killed and wounded. Such data was published the day before by the American Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
17.50 On the afternoon of July 2, Russian troops hit an educational complex in Sumy with a guided aerial bomb, where classes were held with children in the summer, and there are wounded. This was reported by the head of the Sumy MVA Serhiy Kryvosheyenko. According to him, two teachers of the institution were previously injured. They are in moderate condition. The children were not injured, as they had left the institution earlier. In addition, three private houses and two cars located nearby were damaged. As reported by the head of the Sumy OVA Oleg Grigorov, this is an educational institution in a residential area. The building of the NVK has significant damage, a playground and nearby houses are damaged. Currently, two people are being treated by medics. Information about the injured is being clarified. Two more KABs hit infrastructure facilities.
17.49 As a result of Russia's massive attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian Red Cross humanitarian warehouse was destroyed. 320 thousand units of humanitarian cargo with a total value of over 79 million hryvnias were lost.
At the time of the Russian strike, the rented warehouse contained humanitarian cargo needed for emergency response to the consequences of emergencies, ensuring the operation of medical facilities, and providing vital assistance to hundreds of thousands of people from the most vulnerable categories of the population.
These include, in particular, generators, heat pumps, medical stretchers, defibrillators, ultrasound diagnostic devices, patient monitors, etc. A significant part of these cargoes was delivered to Ukraine through the European Civil Protection Mechanism to strengthen the country's preparedness for emergencies.
Among the destroyed stocks was also a strategic humanitarian aid reserve, formed for emergency response to the consequences of shelling, fires, evacuations and other crisis situations. It included blankets, bedding sets, hygiene kits, tarpaulins, emergency film for closing damaged windows, sleeping kits and other essential items to help people in the first hours after emergencies.
17.26 Russian propaganda is actively spreading reports of an alleged Ukrainian drone strike on a Belarusian bus in the Bryansk region of Russia. Such actions by the Kremlin are an attempt to drag Belarus into a war against Ukraine, writes the Center for Countering Disinformation.
It is noted that the Russians do not provide any evidence to support their information, and do not even publish photos from the scene of the incident.
"It is noteworthy that the Russians are spreading these reports two weeks after the mass distribution of a fake about an alleged attack by a Ukrainian drone on a Belarusian bus with a children's football team in the same Bryansk region. Those reports were completely refuted by data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine," the Central Intelligence Agency emphasized.
The spread of propaganda by propagandists about alleged Ukrainian attacks on civilian buses from Belarus is a deliberate provocation by the Russians, who really want to drag Belarus into a war against Ukraine. Belarusian society does not support Russia's assistance in aggression against Ukraine, the center noted.
"It is possible that the Russians themselves are carrying out such provocations, since they are most interested in using the territory of Belarus for the war against Ukraine. We emphasize once again that the Defense Forces of Ukraine strictly adhere to the laws and customs of war and work exclusively for legitimate military purposes," the CPD said.
17.18 We remind you that on July 2, the Russians shelled Zaporizhzhia. As a result of the enemy strike, a high-rise building was set on fire. The fitness center building was also damaged. Three people were injured.
17.05 Military counterintelligence officers detained a Russian "mole" at the Military Academy of the Ministry of Defense in Odessa. He was trying to "leak" information about the latest Ukrainian drones to the enemy, the SBU and the Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office reported.
16.32 Since the beginning of the day and as of 16:00, Russian invaders have carried out 85 attacks on Ukrainian army positions. The enemy is most actively attacking in the direction of Sloviansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report.
15.01 The death toll in Kyiv as a result of a massive Russian attack on Thursday night has increased to 20 people. This was reported by the head of the city military administration (KMVA), Timur Tkachenko, on Telegram.
14.30 Suspicion has been reported for one of the Russian invaders involved in the shooting of a civilian car in Bucha. The National Police reported this. It is noted that the war crime was committed by the Russians on March 6, 2022, during the temporary occupation of the Kyiv region. Then the Russians opened aimed fire from automatic weapons at the car. A 61-year-old civilian who was driving died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds.
13.54 The aggressor country Russia will increase pressure on Ukraine "to achieve the set goal." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this in a comment to Russian propagandists.
He also cynically claims that Russia struck "exclusively at military or near-military targets" in Kyiv tonight.
13.29 A deeply undercover FSB agent who coordinated Russian attacks on the city was detained in Kherson. The SBU reported this. The man is a native of the South Caucasus. He has been living in Ukraine since the 1990s on a fake passport and headed a local public organization as a "cover".
12.55 SBU fighters, together with other components of the Defense Forces, struck the Starolikeevo linear production and dispatching station (LVDS) in the city of Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation. The distance to the target is 850 kilometers, the special service reported.
12.37 As a result of Russian shelling, two children died, three were injured, and two more went missing in the past 24 hours. The National Police of Ukraine reported this on July 2. In total, as of July 2, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 711 Ukrainian children have died, 2,612 have been injured, and 2,367 have gone missing. According to the National Police, 61 children who were previously considered missing have been found in the past 24 hours. There were no children taken to the Russian Federation and returned from there in the past 24 hours. It is noted that 125 criminal proceedings were initiated in the past 24 hours on the facts of war crimes committed by the Russian occupiers.
12.29 In the Odessa region, a scheme was uncovered in which men were illegally taken abroad, posing as sailors, the press service of the National Police reported. With its help, 147 people left the country, and the organizers took thousands of dollars from each of them for this.
12.25 The death toll from the Russian attack on the night of July 2 in Kyiv has increased to 17. The State Emergency Service reported this. Operational headquarters are operating to provide assistance to residents who were injured in the night attack on the capital.
11.39 On the night of July 2, in temporarily occupied Crimea, fires broke out at the Mityaevo and Donuzlav electrical substations in the Saksky district due to attacks. This was reported by the Crimean Wind Telegram channel.
Four arrivals in Feodosia are also reported: three in the area of ​​the oil depot and one on Mount Tepe-Oba, where radar positions are located.
11.16 On the night of July 2, a Russian drone attacked a private home in the Slobodskyi district of Kharkiv, hitting a garage, the regional prosecutor's office reported. The explosion sparked a fire that destroyed two cars and damaged the roof of the house. Four local residents — a man and three women — experienced acute stress reactions as a result of the attack.
The occupiers also struck a farm in the village of Dovzhyk in the Kharkiv region with a drone, killing 10 calves and injuring another 10 animals.
11.18 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the massive Russian attack on Kyiv, called on partners to contribute to the US arms procurement initiative for Ukraine PURL to strengthen air defense. He wrote about this on Telegram on Thursday morning.
10.59 Russian troops attacked the Mykolaiv region with drones. One person was killed and one was injured as a result of the strike. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A 66-year-old truck driver died in Nova Odesa. Three other men, ages 25, 42, and 50, were injured.
10.51 On Thursday morning, there were new power outages in Kyiv and seven regions due to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and bad weather. Ukrenergo reported this. Emergency restoration work is already underway wherever security conditions currently allow.
10.39 Kallas will propose new sanctions in response to the Russian shelling of Kyiv overnight. She made the corresponding statement on the X platform.
Kallas emphasized that it is impossible to stop Russian attacks with words of condemnation alone.
10.27 On the night of July 2, the Kstovsky refinery of Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation was attacked. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to preliminary information, the AVT-6 primary oil processing unit was hit.
10.19 In the Kyiv region, the number of people injured in a night attack by Russian troops has increased to seven. This was reported by the head of the OVA Mykola Kalashnyk.
09.59 Kyiv has declared July 3 a day of mourning for those killed in the massive Russian attack on Thursday. This was announced by the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
"Tomorrow, July 3, has been declared a Day of Mourning in Kyiv. In memory of the victims of the most massive enemy attack on the capital," Klitschko noted.
On this day, flags will be flown at half-mast on all municipal buildings in the city. It is also recommended that national flags be flown at half-mast on state and private buildings.
Any entertainment events are also prohibited in the city on July 3.
09.46 On the night of July 2, Russia massively attacked Ukraine with air-, land- and sea-based missiles of various types and drones. A total of 570 enemy targets were recorded. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The main target of the attack was Kyiv. As explained by the Air Force, a feature of the massive attack was the simultaneous use of air attack means of various types from different directions, the use of a large number of ballistic missiles and jet UAVs.
09.27 In Kyiv, 13 people were killed and at least 86 injured as a result of a massive nighttime Russian attack. This was reported by the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko.
"There are already 86 victims in the capital as a result of the enemy's night attack. 70 of them were hospitalized.
Currently, 13 deaths are known," the mayor noted.
07.51 Two people were injured as a result of Russian attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was reported by the head of the OVA Oleksandr Ganzha
In total, the enemy attacked five districts of the region more than 20 times using drones.
07.19 Three people were injured during the day as a result of Russian attacks on Zaporizhia and the Zaporizhia district. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov.
In total, Russian troops launched 903 strikes on 48 settlements in the region in a day.
07.01 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported an increase in the number of dead and injured in the capital as a result of another massive attack by the Russian Federation.
Initially, the head of the capital reported five dead and 34 injured. But later he announced ten civilian casualties.
5.28 Russian occupiers launched a massive attack on the Kyiv region this night with strike drones, ballistic and cruise missiles. This is evidenced by the data of the head of the Kyiv OVA, Mykola Kalashnyk.
4.31 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko spoke on his Telegram channel about the consequences of the Russian Federation's missile and drone attack on the capital.
One person died as a result of the enemy attack. Head of the KMVA, Timur Tkachenko, expressed condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
3.48 Russian troops damaged one of the ambulance substations during a night attack on Kyiv on July 2. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported this.
2.29 Russia used ballistic missiles during strikes on Kyiv. This happened shortly after the threat of ballistic missiles was announced. This was reported by the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko.
00.57 A Russian drone attack on Kyiv led to a fire in a hotel. State Emergency Service rescuers are now working there. This was reported by the head of the Kyiv MVA, Timura Tkachenko.