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While the viability of the plan was not immediately clear, officials said it was a reminder that the Kremlin remained determined to bring down President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainian drone attacks have left 90 percent of the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, without electricity.
Russia said on Tuesday it had destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets with Iskander-M missiles and damaged two more at the Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine's central Poltava region. Ukraine said there had been a strike at the airfield but that Russia was exaggerating the damage caused.
Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk. Casualties were reported in the latter five regions.
Assault units in Donetsk used tunnels to capture a "major stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces", the Russian MOD said.
Russian forces have captured and are studying an intact guidance system from a long-range US-made ATACMS missile, according to reports.
Russia resorts to legal persecution of migrants, mainly from Central Asia, to force them to join the armed forces and fight in Ukraine. Source: UK Defence Intelligence update dated 2 July on Twitter (X),
He's serving a two-year sentence for robbery, at the penal colony in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region. He works in the kitchen, ladling dollops of food into tin bowls. “It’s stupid to sit here doing nothing,
Russia’s defense ministry said Monday the country’s air defenses shot down 36 Ukrainian aerial drones that were involved in attacks on Russian regions along the border with Ukraine. The ministry said Russian forces downed 18 drones over the Bryansk region,
Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion. That, for the first time, includes inmates at the country’s prisons and penal colonies.
The war in Ukraine has not gone as planned for Russia, resulting in heavy casualties and equipment losses. To cope with the daily loss of over 1,000 soldiers, Russia has resorted to unconventional methods,
Ukraine's military intelligence has been conducting operations in Africa and the Middle East to reduce Russian military potential, and Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov has been leading the charge to fight Russia anywhere it can be found.
Russia's military tank reserves, which have been significantly depleted since the start of the Ukraine war, might be running out. -Despite having hoarded military equipment since the Cold War, reports suggest that the Kremlin's stockpiles are diminishing faster than they can be replenished.