Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:19 Newly appointed UK Defence Secretary John Healey, on his first overseas visit to Ukraine in office, announced a new package of military aid, which included, in particular, 250,000 rounds of .50-calibre ammunition; 90 Brimstone anti-tank missiles; 50 small military boats to support riverine and coastal operations; 40 mine-clearing vehicles; ten AS-90 artillery guns, etc. Healey also instructed government officials to ensure that the military aid package promised in April is expedited and delivered to Ukraine in full within the next 100 days.
21:02 The Dutch government will hand over a mobile forensic laboratory to Ukraine, Prosecutor General Andrey Kostin said following a meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp. Together they inspected the Odessa Transfiguration Cathedral, damaged by Russian shelling. In addition, the Netherlands will allocate 2 million euros for forensic examinations and identification of bodies and will help in the return of children illegally deported by Russia.
20:56 Zelensky reported that today, on the Day of the Ukrainian Navy, he is visiting Odessa and honored the memory of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers. Also in Odessa with the president are the new ministers of defense and foreign affairs of the Netherlands, as well as the new British defense minister.
"We will continue to strengthen the Ukrainian fleet together with Britain, together with the Netherlands - there are good new details of our cooperation. We talked today about strengthening air defense, this is our absolute priority, I am grateful for the willingness to take the next steps - in particular on the F-16," the head of state said.
20:01 Putin told Orban that he had "no positive expectations" regarding a ceasefire before peace talks with Ukraine. "He said that there were no positive expectations about this. Zelensky said that he had no positive expectations because the Russians would use it against Ukraine, and Putin said that the Ukrainians would use this pause against Russia. And I said: let's think about it, I understand your arguments," the Hungarian prime minister said.
Orban also said he considered himself "the only Western leader who can talk to both Kiev and Moscow at the same time" because everyone else "has created a situation where they have no opportunity to directly contact the two main players." Orban said Putin told him that real negotiations are impossible without involving both sides, and "what they do without them is irrelevant, which is logical."
19:18 Estonian President Alar Karis is convinced that Ukraine's future membership in NATO cannot be a subject of negotiations. He also warned against a deceptive "truce" with Russia that would involve concessions to Ukraine.
18:55 Dutch Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs Ruben Brekelmans and Caspar Veldkamp confirmed at a press conference in Kiev that their country, together with its partners, will provide Ukraine with an additional Patriot system.
18:23 The Minister of Defense of the newly appointed Dutch government, Ruben Brekelmans, made his first working visit to Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported.
18:16 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced peace steps in Ukraine next week: "Sunday, the first week of the Hungarian presidency of the union and the government meeting at the same time ended. Now everyone can be sure that the next six months will be a peace mission, in order to finally bring peace to our region. The peace mission continues and even gets stronger, so I ask European politicians who support the war: fasten your seat belts and stay tuned next week."
18:08 Russian military shelled residential areas of Kherson throughout the day, three people were wounded, OVA reported.
17:57 Russians struck the village of Boguslavka in the Borovsk community of the Izyum district, two people are known to have been wounded, reported the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
17:39 On Monday, July 8, restrictions on electricity consumption will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 00:00 to 14:00, regional power companies will apply two stages of shutdowns, from 19:00 to 22:00 - four stages. At other times, three stages of shutdowns will be applied simultaneously. The company explained that consumption is growing due to the heat.
17:12 Publics write about three strikes on occupied Melitopol, which resulted in a fire at the airfield.
16:54 The Defense Forces shot down an enemy Su-25 aircraft in the Pokrovsk direction, the General Staff reported. The largest number of combat contacts were recorded in this direction. Since the beginning of the day, the Russians have made 27 attempts to push Ukrainian forces from their positions in the areas of New York, Novoalexandrovka, Vozdvizhenka, Kalinovo, Progress, Lozovatskoye, Novoselovka Pervaya and Yasnobrodovka.
13:43 SBU drones hit an ammunition depot in the Voronezh region tonight, Ukrainian media write, citing sources in the security agencies. According to them, it is from this depot that the Russians supply ammunition to their troops in Ukraine. Surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, tank and artillery shells, and boxes of firearms ammunition were stored on the 9,000 square meter site.
11:58 In Chornomorsk, Odessa region, the number of victims of the Russian attack on port infrastructure on July 4 has increased to two - one of the wounded died in the hospital, said Mayor Vasily Gulyayev.
09:50 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were killed and three were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. A multi-storey building and ten private houses, administrative buildings, a catering establishment, and a store were damaged.
09:42 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on July 6 - in New York and Ukrainsk. Another eight people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:38 The Russians yesterday struck the village of Stary Saltiv in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkiv region with a Lancet drone, one person was wounded. Also, as a result of the shelling, one person was killed and one was wounded in the village of Odnodelovka in the Bogodukhov district, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:32 GUR reported strikes on two military facilities in the occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast. Thus, on July 6, a logistics center was hit in Debaltseve, where the Russians stored equipment for tanks and ammunition, and an expensive Russian automated jamming station R-330Zh Zhitel was destroyed in Novoluhanske.
09:11 A fire broke out in a warehouse containing "explosive objects" in the Voronezh Region after a UAV attack, Governor Alexander Gusev reported. According to him, several UAVs were allegedly destroyed over the territory of the Voronezh Region by the air defense forces on duty at night, and when their remains fell, a fire broke out in one of the warehouses, and "explosive objects" began to detonate in the Podgorensky District.
08:13 Air defense destroyed all 13 Shahed-131/136 strike UAVs that Russia used to attack from the Kursk region at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down in the Kirovograd, Kharkiv, Sumy and Poltava regions. In addition, on the night of July 7, the enemy attacked with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles.
07:40 At night, Russians launched a missile attack on Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region - four private houses were damaged by debris, no one was hurt, said OVA head Serhiy Lysak. In Nikopol, three people were wounded during the evening and morning shelling.
07:29 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 7:
- personnel - about 550,990 (+1150) people,
- tanks - 8155 (+2),
- combat armored vehicles - 15,645 (+16),
- artillery systems - 14,937 (+40),
- MLRS - 1115 (+0),
- air defense systems - 879 (+1),
- aircraft - 360 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 11,862 (+53),
- cruise missiles - 2352 (+1),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 20,103 (+50),
- special equipment - 2495 (+16).
06:46 According to calculations by the British newspaper The Economist, which are based on leaked documents from the Pentagon, Russia has lost between 462,000 and 728,000 of its soldiers killed and wounded in the war with Ukraine. The publication notes that Russia's losses in the war in Ukraine are already greater than all its losses since World War II.
05:14 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops have recently advanced southeast of Kupyansk and Seversk, as well as in the direction of Toretsk.