[Korrespondent] 22.56 During the day, 219 combat clashes took place at the front, in the Pokrovsky direction the Defense Forces repelled 41 enemy attacks, neutralizing more than 60 occupiers. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of July 7.
22.18 In Odessa, the number of people injured in a rocket attack has increased to six people. This was reported by the head of the Odessa OVA, Oleg Kiper, on July 7. It is noted that one person is in serious condition, and the condition of three others is moderate. All victims are being provided with necessary medical assistance.
21.56 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of drones - Drone Deal.
According to Zelensky, this is the ninth such agreement for Ukraine.
"It is important that more and more partners are joining this format, which opens up more opportunities for joint defense production, exchange of expertise, and transparency in arms exports. Together we are building a new security architecture," the president noted and thanked Denmark for this step in strengthening joint defense.
According to Zelensky, it was with Denmark that co-production in Ukraine began within the framework of the Danish model, and it is absolutely fair that now Denmark will have access to Ukrainian exports of war-tested weapons.
20.59 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is preparing a DroneDeal agreement with Germany and is working on creating a joint European anti-ballistic missile system to guarantee Europe's protection from missile threats. He made this announcement following a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
20:47 The Russian army struck Odessa with a ballistic missile with a cluster warhead: 5 people were hospitalized, infrastructure was damaged.
19.58 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Oleksandr Syrsky stated that the Russian army is showing signs of exhaustion, but retains significant offensive potential. He said this following the results of the monthly meeting on improving the quality of training of military personnel and units. According to Syrsky, the Defense Forces of Ukraine maintain consistently high rates of destruction of Russian invaders' personnel and their equipment, consistently destroy enemy logistics and deliver effective strikes on military and critical infrastructure facilities, primarily the fuel and energy complex of the Russian Federation, which ensures the functioning of its military machine.
"This shows that we are acting correctly. At the same time, it is too early to talk about a qualitative turning point in the war. The aggressor is showing signs of exhaustion, but it retains significant offensive potential. It is increasing the number of its troops, continuing massive strikes on the territory of Ukraine, increasing the production of weapons of mass destruction, and preparing to seize the initiative and possible offensive actions on new sections of the front," the commander-in-chief noted.
19.56 The Cabinet of Ministers held a coordination meeting with oil market operators and relevant agencies on providing the country with fuel. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko emphasized that the priority is the needs of frontline communities.
"Russian attacks on gas stations are becoming a systemic challenge for the safety of people and the functioning of the fuel infrastructure. Currently, the necessary volumes of fuel are available, there is no shortage. We will implement a set of solutions in a timely manner that will allow us to continue to guarantee uninterrupted fuel supplies for citizens, businesses, the Security and Defense Forces, and critical infrastructure," she noted.
Svyridenko added that additional measures were also separately identified to increase the safety of gas stations in regions under constant threat of Russian attacks.
19:30 The Omsk oil refinery, which is the largest in Russia, has suspended operations after a strike by Ukrainian drones.
The primary oil processing unit CDU-10 was damaged as a result of drone strikes. This facility accounts for about 38% of the refinery's total production capacity, and its daily output is over 24,500 tons.
In addition, the attack forced the shutdown of the CDU-11 unit, which provides 37% of the plant's capacity. The facility itself was not directly hit, but the network connections necessary for its operation were destroyed by debris or the blast wave.
Theoretically, the Omsk Refinery could try to compensate for losses by launching two old, decommissioned units, CDU-7 and CDU-8, each of which is capable of processing 10,000 tons of oil per day.
The Omsk Refinery has already completely stopped selling gasoline and diesel fuel on the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange. A complete shutdown of the largest gasoline producer in the Russian Federation could lead to a deepening fuel crisis in the domestic market.
18.38 In the Kyiv region, the death toll from the massive Russian attack on July 6 has risen to nine. A man who was seriously injured in the night strike died in hospital.
18.31 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of Estonia Kristen Michal signed a bilateral agreement on cooperation in the field of unmanned technologies (Drone Deal). The Ukrainian leader announced this on Facebook.
18.27 During the war, Russia has increased weapons production many times, but now it has almost reached its limit. The defense industry as the locomotive of industrial growth will soon reach maximum volumes and a high base and will not, as before, provide a significant increase in the growth rate of "processing". This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov, Russian media reports. It is noted that the manufacturing industry, and above all the military-industrial complex, was one of the key factors in the growth of the Russian economy during the war years. When it was realized that the war was dragging on, the state directed enormous resources into the military-industrial complex.
In 2019-2021, Russia spent 3-3.6 trillion rubles on "national defense", this year the planned expenditure is 12.1 trillion, but it will probably be increased. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned that spending and the budget deficit will exceed the plan. As Davis Center researcher Andriy Yakovlev noted, in order to fulfill the increased government orders, the defense industry, which mainly consists of state-owned enterprises, sharply increased wages, forcing others to join the wage race.
17.45 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin want to conclude an agreement. This was announced by US President Donald Trump.
17.08 The FSB agent, whom the SBU exposed in September 2024 while adjusting the shelling of the Dnipropetrovsk region, received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. The SBU reported this on July 7. It was established that the man was recruited by the Russian special service when he was looking for easy money in Telegram channels. Later, he involved his wife in subversive activities. The agent couple monitored the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems and radar stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on which the enemy was preparing air strikes. To collect data, the woman took photos and videos of military facilities and marked their coordinates on Google maps, and her husband passed the intelligence to a curator from the Russian Federation. In addition, it was documented how he set fire to a relay cabinet at a railway junction. The agent filmed the fire process on his phone for a report to a Russian special service officer. The attacker was to continue a series of arsons at strategically important Ukrzaliznytsia facilities. In this way, the enemy hoped to disrupt the logistics of the Defense Forces on the eastern and southern fronts.
16.39 Since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have attacked Ukrainian army positions 88 times. A third of enemy assaults are concentrated in the Pokrovsk area, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary.
16.10 Russian occupiers launched strikes with guided aerial bombs (GABs) on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv. According to the latest data, one person was killed and 16 others were injured: 11 people suffered blast injuries, and another 5 suffered acute stress reactions.
16.04 In Kyiv, an underground "polygraphy" of medical documentation was exposed, which operated in the capital and Kyiv region. Both ordinary medical certificates and entire medical reports and examination results were ordered from dealers.
The attackers "climbed" on the basis of reports prepared for those liable for military service on the presence of incurable diseases in them or their relatives. According to them, the patients were allegedly unable to move independently and required constant professional care. As a result, fake documents became the basis for men to receive a deferral from military service.
15.42 The meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara will take place on Wednesday, July 8, at 2:30 p.m. local time (coincides with Kyiv time). This is stated in the program of the US president's stay at the Alliance summit.
15.21 In the Donetsk region, law enforcement officers exposed and detained a serviceman who illegally sold two drones that were in service with his unit, as well as two machine guns. The total amount of the transaction was 1.1 million hryvnias. This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation. According to the investigation, the company commander of one of the battalions of the military unit decided to illegally enrich himself at the expense of military property, and in addition, he organized the sale of illegally acquired weapons, explosives and ammunition.
14.55 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions against suppliers of equipment to Russian military-industrial complex factories that produce missile components, and propagandists. The relevant decrees No. 587/2026 and No. 588/2026 were published on the head of state's website.
14.23 The Netherlands has exhausted its options for providing new military assistance to Ukraine. This was stated by the country's Defense Minister Dylan Yesilgoz-Zegerius during the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7, Bloomberg reports.
According to her, the country has already made a significant contribution to supporting Ukraine, so it cannot indefinitely increase the volume of its own supplies.
"We, as the Netherlands, have no more options because we have already done so much," said Yesilgöz-Zegerius.
14.21 Specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, as part of a special operation in Russian cyberspace, obtained a strategically important array of classified data from one of the key enterprises of the Russian military -industrial complex - the Stelmakh Polyus Research Institute.
We are talking about dozens of gigabytes of internal document flow and official information of the management and technical levels of the institute, which is a legitimate military target for the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine.
Polyus Research Institute is one of the leading research and production centers in Russia, part of the Rostec Corporation. The institute specializes in high-tech developments - laser technologies, inertial systems, and quantum electronics.
The database obtained by intelligence officers contains information about the enemy's existing and promising projects in the field of production of high-precision weapons, as well as modernization - in particular, through the use of foreign components - of missile weapons and drones that Russia uses to wage a genocidal war against Ukraine.
12.58 Russian troops are changing tactics on some sections of the front, moving from offensive to holding positions. The occupiers are building the largest number of fortifications in the Oleksandrivka direction. This was reported by the spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces, Vladislav Voloshyn.
12.56 Fires were recorded on the territory of the 110 kV Saki electrical substation (SS), as well as the 330 kV West Crimean substation near the village of Kar'erne in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Meanwhile, the occupation enterprise Voda Krymu reported that residents of nine cities and three districts of Crimea will be left without water supply on July 7. The outages will affect: parts of Simferopol, Feodosia, Saki, Armyansk, Yana Kapu (Krasnoperekopska), Kerch, Yevpatoria, Dzhankoy, and Bilogirsk.
The occupation authorities explain the interruptions as "emergency repair work." In general, not only residents of cities, but also residents of surrounding villages, as well as the Bilogirsky, Kurmansky, and Dzhankoysky districts, will be left without water supply.
Previously, the occupation "head of administration" of Sak Yulia Predibaylo stated that the city was left without water due to the lack of electricity.
Since July 1, water supply schedules have been in effect in villages in the south of occupied Crimea. In Yevpatoria, water is delivered by tanker trucks. In the village of Verkhnya Kutuzivka, Yalta District, water is supplied only from 06:00 to 22:00. Previously, similar restrictions were introduced in the village of Luchiste, where water supply is available on some streets for only four hours in the evening.
10.59 The number of deaths in Kherson as a result of the Russian attack on a minibus in the Central district of Kherson on July 1 has increased. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
A woman who suffered serious injuries died in the hospital.
This brings the total number of victims of this Russian attack on public transport to three. Another 11 residents of Kherson were injured.
09.59 A Russian FPV drone hit a gas station in Kharkiv, injuring a woman. The press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported this, publishing the consequences of the enemy strike.
A fuel dispenser caught fire at the scene of the crash in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
09.13 In Belgorod, Russia, there were power, water and gas outages after two nighttime missile strikes. The authorities of the Russian region announced damage to the energy infrastructure.
08.59 Russian troops attacked the territory of Ukraine on Tuesday night with 123 drones, including jets. They managed to eliminate most of the enemy targets. This was reported by the Air Force.
08.39 The 1595th day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. In total, 255 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours. This is stated in the morning summary of the General Staff.
07.59 The Defense Forces neutralized 1,200 Russian soldiers over the past 24 hours, the General Staff reported.
The total combat losses of the Russian invaders from 02/24/22 to 07/07/26 were approximately 1,412,250 people.
07.33 Russian troops attacked Sumy region with drones, two people were killed as a result of the strikes. The press service of the National Police published relevant photos of the consequences.
07.22 In Kryvyi Rih, a Russian drone hit a civilian infrastructure facility, causing a large-scale fire. This was reported by the head of the city's Defense Council, Oleksandr Vilkul.
07.11 In Kyiv, rescuers unblocked the body of the 19th victim from under the rubble of a house in the Darnytskyi district. This was reported by the State Emergency Service.
03.40 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the decisive battlefield in the war between Russia and Ukraine will unfold not on land, but in the sky. And in the competition in the air, it matters much less whose territory is larger. And in this area, Ukraine is competitive with Russia.
01.33 Two civilians were killed as a result of Russian strikes in the Sumy and Okhtyrsky districts on Monday.
01.01 Loud explosions were heard in Belgorod, Russia, late in the evening, after which power and water were cut off in at least part of the city. Social media is reporting a missile strike on a thermal power plant. The airport was also hit by a missile strike. After the strike, a large fire broke out on the site.