🔴 UPD: Russian attack on Kyiv killed 20, local authorities say.

⚡️🇪🇺 After massive attack on Kyiv, EU proposes new sanctions against Russia Kallas proposed imposing additional sanctions immediately after the strike. Sybiha supported the initiative: "This is exactly the approach we have been calling for. Strong deterrence requires proactive action."

⚡️ A CSIS report reveals that Russia's stalled ground offensive has become one of the slowest in a century, with its territorial control shrinking amid 1.4 million casualties. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Russia’s overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv has killed at least 17 people. The five-star Premier Palace Hotel caught fire during the attack, while residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure across the capital suffered extensive damage. #Ukraine

❗️Russian sources report the loss of a Ka-52 attack helicopter. The circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear. #Russia

🇺🇦🙏 52,500 people, including nearly 4,500 children, took to the subway during the attack on Kyiv. This is the highest number of people sheltering during a nighttime air raid alert in recent years.

💔 18 people have already died during the massive Russian attack in Kyiv, - State Emergency Service 85 people were injured, including 2 children.

"I've never seen anything like this in real life! It's like a movie! Like computer graphics!" Local residents seem impressed by the cinematic flames at the oil refinery in Kstovo, Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, after a drone attack.

‼️ The enemy struck with KABs in the Dnipropetrovsk region, an entire family was injured. A 7-year-old girl died An 11-year-old girl was taken to the hospital in moderate condition. Three adults were also hospitalized. Two of them are "severe".

🤩 The line at the Rosneft gas station near the village of Atamanovka in the Chita District of Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai is 4.3 km long and lasts 28 hours.

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Russian losses per 02/07/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff +1140 men +5 ACVs +57 artillery +7 (!) MLRS +2123 UAVs +9 GRCs +1 cruise missile

Russia launched a massive overnight attack with missiles and drones across Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and injuring 86 in Kyiv. Residential buildings, a clinic, and civilian businesses were hit, while rescue operations continue at collapsed structures. #Ukraine

More from Kyiv... Missiles and drones hit apartment buildings, a clinic near Taryan Towers, the MOYO warehouse, and other civilian sites. Seven people were reportedly rescued alive from a collapsed nine-story building. #Ukraine

🔴 Russian aerial attack kills 10 in Kyiv. At least 10 people were killed and 56 injured during one of Moscow's largest assaults since the 2022 invasion, as rescue teams search for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed residential building in the capital’s Darnyts'kyi District.

🚨 UPD: Russian overnight attack on Kyiv kills at least 11 people.

The Kstovo refinery, Nizhny Novgorod, in Russia has been struck and is visibly burning.

🔴 BREAKING: Russian forces conducted a massive attack against Ukraine overnight, deploying at least 50 missiles and 70 drones. In Kyiv alone, 10 people were killed and at least 34 were injured. Kharkiv and Dnipro also came under attack.

🔴 Horrific scenes follow Russian night attack on Kyiv, which killed at least 10 people.

‼️Update: About 25 Tsirkon-type and hypersonic missiles were used against Kyiv in the last hour.

‼️ A hole near a residential complex in the Pechersk district of Kyiv 🟠 Repeated launches of "Kalibr" from the Black Sea

‼️‼️ A ceiling collapsed after an attack on one of the capital's metro stations.

🎥‼️ Numerous damages to residential buildings and fires in Kyiv due to the attack of the occupier - these are the consequences of the Russian attack.

❗️A large fire broke out in the Borshchahivka district of Kyiv after a missile strike One person is reported dead and 11 injured in the city.

❗️Horror: building on Darnytsia in Kyiv almost demolished by missile to its foundation, — local channels

NEW: Russia’s spring-summer 2026 offensive has failed to achieve operationally significant gains, and Russian forces’ rate of advance in June 2026 is a fraction of the June 2025 Russian rate of advance. (1/5) Read the Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 1, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar070126

These politicians exploit democracy to undermine European security. 🧵 1/16 ⬇️

Atamanovka, Zabaykalsky Krai. A Russian driver leaves the gas station after finally refueling following a 28-hour wait, then drives past a 4.3 km-long queue for the same station. She remarks that when she first joined the line, it was much shorter.

❗️Launches of cruise missiles of the X101 type from the sides of the Tu-160

❗️More from a drone strike on a hotel near the Premier Palace in Kyiv

🔴 Botswana man lured by fake job ad into joining Russian army.

Russia is no longer a "gas station" country.

🎣 Fighters from the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade hunt Russian quadcopters using a drone equipped with a stick and rope.

🇮🇳💲Over the past two weeks, discounts on Russian Urals crude at Indian ports have nearly doubled, from $4 to $7 per barrel relative to Brent, - Reuters In total, India saved approximately $13 billion between 2022 and 2025 due to discounts on Russian oil.

‼️ Putin is trying to shift the blame away from himself. Ahead of the 2026 parliamentary elections, Putin decided to openly associate himself with the United Russia party, which, for the first time since 2007, has once again called itself "the president's party."⤵️

Russian drones are attacking Kyiv, Kyiv region and other Ukrainian cities. A massive attack involving ballistic and cruise missiles is expected tonight. People of Kyiv are spending the night in the subway (doubles as a shelter). Russia continues terrorizing Ukrainians.

According to an exclusive Reuters investigation, RF and China conducted secret military training at the end of 2025. Declassified documents obtained by journalists reveal that the program was personally approved in August 2025 by Russian Defense Minister Belousov. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

🇮🇹🇺🇦 Italy to allocate €1 million to strengthen Ukraine's cyber defense From July 1, Italy took over from the UK the chairmanship of the Tallinn Mechanism, an international initiative to support Ukraine's cybersecurity. The country's total contribution to the mechanism will reach €2 million.

Zelensky said intelligence warned of a major Russian strike being prepared, as drones were already active over Ukraine. Monitoring channels reported at least 7 Tu-95MS and 3 Tu-160 bombers airborne from multiple airfields, with possible cruise missile waves overnight. #Ukraine

The last six months have been terrible for the Russian military. They only net gained 699 km² which is a 70% drop compared to the last 6 months of 2025. That amount of land is roughly equal to the size of the city of Madrid. Meanwhile Russia has taken over 200,000 casualties to gain that 699 km².

The SMO is going exactly to plan. Residents of Chita, in the Zabaykalsky region of Russia, have been lining up for petrol for two days straight. Everything is totally under control.

Tonight, Ukrainian strike and jet drones took off for Russia once again. Monitoring channels report that there are approximately 350 drones in the air.

❗️A drone strike on a hotel near the Premier Palace in Kyiv, there is a strong fire there

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 🔥 Scientific Research Institute of Physical Measurements (JSC NIIFV) was attacked in Penza. 🇺🇦 Zelensky: For the second time, our sanctions reached Ufa oil refinery. 💥 Minus one more bridge on the Mariupol-Donetsk highway 1/6

‼️Jet drones continue to fly into Kyiv from several directions. The city reports a fire after one of them crashed.

💥😎 Unmanned Systems Forces Destroy Enemy Infantry in Donetsk Region Operators of the 414th Brigade “Birds of the Magyar” continue to methodically destroy enemy assault groups, preventing them from advancing to Ukrainian positions.

🇮🇪🇺🇦 Zelensky: Ireland has been very supportive of Ukraine throughout all the years of this war of Russia against our independence. Despite the country's neutral status, Ireland has not remained neutral in its feelings. I thanked Prime Minister for this during our meeting in Dublin.

🔥 Ukraine is already testing laser air defense, there are first results, - Fedorov Fedorov also noted that during the last attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian forces managed to shoot down 95% of enemy drones.

Russian 'Z-blogger' Golman worries: "Everything is great, everything is fine," they say. Maybe for you it's fucking great.The Motherland is in danger. If it's even your motherland... That MP blurted out yesterday: "Get used to the new reality.There was no gas, and there won't be any." Fucking hell”

⚡ A Kremlin official has demanded that Russian youth have three children before the age of 35 to combat a historic birth rate collapse. united24media.com/world/kremli...