Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:24 In Kiev, search and rescue operations have been completed in a five-story building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, the State Emergency Service reported. Rescuers have freed the body of a girl born in 2006. The death toll has risen to 13.
21:21 Ukraine in Washington will work on permission for the US to strike airfields on Russian territory, Kuleba said. According to him, this decision "does not depend directly on NATO, but depends on the United States. And this will be discussed in contacts with American officials and other individual close partners of ours."
21:00 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the NATO summit would further strengthen Ukraine's ties with the Alliance and announced a powerful package of support. According to him, at the summit in the coming days, the allies will demonstrate support for Ukraine's efforts to counter Russian aggression.
20:56 Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that Norway handed over to Ukraine the NASAMS air defense system from which the missile was allegedly fired at Okhmatdet. "We are waiting for a reaction from the Norwegian authorities," he said.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, in turn, said that Russia tried to block Ukraine's participation in the UN Security Council meeting: "When we launched the process of holding this meeting, the first thing the Russian Federation tried to do, abusing its right to preside, was to block Ukraine's participation in the meeting in connection with the shelling of Ukraine. This attempt speaks for itself. We successfully overcame it."
20:51 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico condemned the Russian missile attack on the Okhmatdet children's hospital in Kyiv, Shmyhal said following a conversation with his Slovak counterpart: "Robert Fico condemned this attack. Slovakia expressed its readiness to accept some children for treatment, accompanied by their parents, in particular those with oncological diseases. We are grateful for this support. I gave the relevant instructions to the Minister of Health."
20:47 Russia is unable to seize most of Ukraine, and Kiev's prospects for recapturing more land from the occupying army are also diminishing, The New York Times writes. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports on the increasingly desperate state of the Russian ground forces, which are losing personnel and momentum. Read more about the war scenarios from Western media in the article No Chance to Break the Deadlock.
20:43 Russia is holding more than 14,000 Ukrainian civilians captive, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets reported. He specified that this number includes citizens detained since 2014 in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as after the start of the full-scale invasion. The ombudsman emphasized that "civilians are the most difficult category to return."
20:39 Russians have struck a civilian enterprise in Volnyansk, Zaporizhia Oblast, wounding two people, said OVA chief Ivan Fedorov. Another person was wounded in the village of Belenke as a result of an enemy strike on a social infrastructure facility. Residential and industrial buildings were damaged.
20:32 A major prisoner exchange should not be expected in the near future, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets. He explained this by the difference in the number of prisoners: there are many more Ukrainian prisoners on Russian territory than Russians on Ukrainian territory.
At the same time, Lubinets reported that Ukraine is planning an exchange, as a result of which female prisoners of war will return home. The UAE is participating in organizing this exchange.
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20:01 Putin and Modi signed a statement saying the war in Ukraine must be ended peacefully "in accordance with international law and on the basis of the UN Charter" through dialogue and diplomacy, by "engaging both sides."
19:49 Macron confirmed that the main opponents of Ukraine's accession to NATO are the United States and Germany. Before the summit in Washington, the French president noted the "strong opposition" of Washington and Berlin. In his opinion, the scenario of this summit will be the same as a year ago, when the Ukrainians "were irritated" that they were not invited to NATO.
19:36 The number of victims as a result of the Russian attack on Kiev on July 8 has increased to 70, 30 people have died, including four children who were pulled out from under the rubble of an apartment building, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. In particular, seven people died in the Solomensky district, 14 in Shevchenkivsky, nine in Dniprovsky. At the same time, the Kyiv State Military Aviation Department reported that as of 17:00, 33 people were killed in the missile strike in Kiev.
19:28 On Wednesday, July 10, restrictions on electricity consumption will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 1:00 to 6:00 and from 10:00 to 13:00, regional power companies will apply two stages of shutdowns, and three stages during other hours.
19:24 On the morning of July 8, in Kalmykia, in the steppe near the village of Solenoye, a Kalibr cruise missile exploded, the Russian opposition publication Astra reports, citing sources. A two-meter crater was left at the site of the explosion, with fragments scattered around. There were no damages or casualties. The village of Solenoye is more than 300 km from the border with Ukraine.
19:17 Zelensky said that he arrived in Washington to participate in the NATO summit: "We are fighting for more air defense for Ukraine. I am sure that it will be. We are fighting for more F-16 aircraft. We are fighting for additional security guarantees for Ukraine - and this means weapons and finances, political support. We are fighting for the necessary decisive actions by America and Europe - something that will strengthen our warriors."
19:12 Russians attacked Poltava region - according to preliminary information, there was a hit on an industrial facility, no people were hurt, reported the head of the OVA Filipp Pronin.
19:06 The decision to launch missile strikes on Ukraine, in particular on the Okhmatdet children's hospital in Kiev, was made by the top leadership of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said in a commentary to Interfax-Ukraine: "This was a combined strike, which was carried out simultaneously by air, sea and land-based missiles, so it is obvious that the decision to destroy was made by the top leadership of Russia." According to Kostin, the strikes during the attack on July 8 were specifically aimed at civilian targets in Kiev, Krivoy Rog, Dnipro and other cities.
18:47 Russia's latest missile strike on Kiev shows the war in Ukraine has reached a new level, Orban said. He called yesterday's attack on Kiev a "tragic and vile attack" but stopped short of condemning Russia. The Hungarian prime minister called the missile strike evidence that his "fears have been justified."
"As could be expected, the cruelty of the Russian-Ukrainian war has reached a new level. That is why we launched a peacekeeping mission nine days ago," Orban said. In his opinion, "the increasing intensity of the war is a call for world powers to abandon their military policy and create a peace policy that will lead Russia and Ukraine to a ceasefire and peace talks." Orban also called on world powers to stop providing military aid to Ukraine in order to create conditions for its peace talks with Russia.
18:21 Ukraine has managed to return 736 children taken away by Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets reported. According to him, the Ukrainian side is already preparing to return the next groups of children, but specific dates have not been disclosed.
17:46 The Ministry of Defense reported that it signed a memorandum with ICEYE to deepen cooperation in the field of space intelligence. ICEYE is a Finnish company and one of the world leaders in the field of satellite technology. The company produces microsatellites and owns one of the world's largest constellations of radar satellites. The agreement with ICEYE is aimed at strengthening cooperation in the field of remote sensing of the Earth, which is important for the national security and defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported.
17:14 The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will help restore the Okhmatdet hospital in Kiev damaged by a Russian missile, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. "UNICEF is ready to allocate funding primarily to provide assistance to those children and families who were in Okhmatdet. They will also work to restore this hospital as quickly as possible," Lubinets said.
16:59 Russian oligarchs are receiving billions of dollars in dividends thanks to the growth of the Russian military economy, Bloomberg writes, citing data from the companies themselves. Thus, a dozen major businessmen divided 1 trillion rubles ($11.3 billion) in payments for 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, since their companies resumed or even increased payments as the Russian economy adapts to sanctions. Many of these oligarchs are closely connected to Putin, and some themselves have fallen under sanctions.
16:28 Russians struck a nine-story building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region - three people were injured, including a six-year-old child, reported the head of the OVA, Vadim Filashkin.
16:25 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not claim to be a mediator in Ukraine, Peskov said. According to him, Putin and Modi "constructively discussed the topic of Ukraine" during the talks, and as a result of the discussion, "new ideas were born."
16:14 A drone attacked a substation at a butter factory in Sudzha, a fire started there, but the workers were not injured, said Acting Head of Kursk Region Alexey Smirnov.
16:09 As a result of the Russian missile strike on the Okhmatdet hospital, the toxicology building with the department of chronic and acute intoxications, where children undergo dialysis, was completely destroyed, the Kyiv State Health Administration reported. Most of the other buildings suffered significant damage. Currently, 94 children have been evacuated to other hospitals in Kyiv. 68 children remain in the surviving departments of Okhmatdet for treatment, another 465 patients who needed planned treatment were examined and temporarily discharged home. At the time of the attack, 627 children were in the hospital, eight of whom were injured.
15:44 The situation in the energy sector remains very difficult, but the duration of outages will decrease after July 20, Shmyhal said. He explained that by that time, repair work will be completed at some generation facilities, which will increase the capacity in the energy system.
15:20 The state will completely rebuild Okhmatdyt, Shmyhal said. According to him, the government is already allocating UAH 100 million from the state budget reserve fund for priority restoration work at the hospital. In the future, funding will increase as the restoration project is prepared. Each family with children affected by yesterday's attack, together with UNICEF, will be provided with assistance in the amount of UAH 10,800 per family member.
15:16 Yesterday's Russian strike destroyed both hospital substations on the territory of Okhmatdet, DTEK Executive Director Dmitry Sakharuk reported. According to him, yesterday the hospital was working on generators, and now it has been temporarily connected to mobile transformers.
15:09 Switzerland has joined the 14th package of EU sanctions against Russia. The country is thus imposing sanctions within its jurisdiction on another 69 individuals and 86 legal entities. The new restrictions are aimed at entrepreneurs, propagandists, members of the armed forces and the judiciary, those responsible for the deportation of Ukrainian children, and FSB officers.
14:48 The funds for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, allocated by Germany for this year, have been almost completely spent, so Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is asking for an additional 4 billion euros, writes Spiegel.
14:33 The head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, Danielle Belle, told AFP that analysis of the video showed a "high probability" that a Russian missile had directly hit the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kiev. She also noted that the losses would have been much higher if people had not been moved to a shelter.
13:57 The SBU and GUR are behind the night strike near the Russian city of Akhtubinsk, Ukrainian media report, citing sources in the special services. In particular, the strike was carried out on the Akhtubinsk military airfield in the Astrakhan region, a 500 kV electrical substation in the Rostov region, and an oil depot in Kalach-on-Don in the Volgograd region.
13:51 During his visit to Moscow, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an end to the war in Ukraine: "India has always called for respect for the UN Charter, including territorial integrity and sovereignty. There is no solution on the battlefield. Dialogue and diplomacy are the way forward."
In turn, Zelensky called Modi's visit to Russia and warm meeting with Putin "a huge disappointment": "It is a huge disappointment and a crushing blow to peace efforts to see how on such a day the leader of the world's largest democracy embraces the bloodiest criminal in the world."
13:19 Rescuers have already pulled out the fifth body today from a house on Syrets in Kiev. In total, the number of people killed in this house has risen to 12, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported.
13:10 On July 8, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the Belgorod Ministry of Internal Affairs with a HIMARS, the Russian opposition publication Astra reported, citing sources. The missile was shot down by an air defense system, and shrapnel pierced the roof in two places in the main building of the Belgorod Region UMVD. Four service vehicles were also damaged. In addition, shrapnel damaged 49 more vehicles, six of which were personal police vehicles. In addition, windows were broken and the roof was pierced in two private homes, and shrapnel fell in the city center. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov did not report on the consequences of the strike on the Ministry of Internal Affairs building.
12:52 The SBU has received evidence confirming that Okhmatdet was hit by a Russian cruise missile Kh-101. In particular, debris from this missile, including the engine, was found at the site of the strike. The experts' conclusions are unambiguous - this was a targeted strike by the Russian Federation, the Security Service emphasized. This is evidenced not only by the debris from the missile found at the site of the strike, but also by an analysis of the flight trajectory data, the nature of the damage, as well as a large number of video and photo materials .
In particular, they confirm a targeted missile strike by the Russian Federation:
- The nature of the destruction (a two-story hospital building was completely destroyed, neighboring buildings were significantly damaged) is typical of the X-101 warhead (400 kg). The destruction could not have been caused by the NASAMS air defense missile system, the warheads of which are approximately 20 times less powerful;
- The proportions, shape and dimensions of the missile recorded in the publicly available videos are completely consistent with the X-101 missile and are not typical for air defense systems, including NASAMS.
- The missile's flight trajectory is fully consistent with the characteristics of the X-101 (climbing, or "hill," before attacking the target and attacking at an angle of approximately 60 degrees);
- The attack on the Okhmatdet children's hospital using the Kh-101 missile was recorded by objective monitoring materials using radars.
12:38 As of 12:15, the death toll in Kiev has risen to 31, with 117 people injured, the Kyiv City Hall reported. The mayor's office clarified that the number of dead residents of the Syrets building has risen to 11.
11:53 Rescuers have pulled out the bodies of two more people from under the rubble of a house in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Thus, the number of dead residents of this house has grown to ten. The search and rescue operation continues.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office, as of 11:00, 27 people were known to have died as a result of yesterday's attack on Kyiv, including four children who were pulled out from under the rubble of an apartment building. In the Solomensky district, seven were killed, in Shevchenkivsky - 11, in Dniprovsky - nine. The number of injured has risen to 64.
11:47 The issue of the potential ability to destroy Russian missiles flying in the Ukrainian sky towards Poland may be discussed at the NATO summit in Washington, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said: "I have no information about any changes in US or NATO policy that could be announced today, but obviously any time a NATO member wants to raise a policy issue, they can do so and discuss it with other heads of state. They will have a summit this week, and I am sure that this can be discussed."
11:41 Emergency rescue operations at the Okhmatdet hospital in Kyiv have been completed, Interior Minister Igor Klimenko reported. As a result of the Russian attack at this location, two people were killed and 32 were injured. Eight children were hospitalized with injuries.
11:29 Russia will fire all Indians serving in the Russian army following a personal request from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting with Putin yesterday, NDTV reported, citing sources. According to media reports, at least two Indians have died in the war in Ukraine, while dozens of others claim to have been tricked into coming to Ukraine under the pretext of getting high-paying jobs. Putin promised that they would be released and helped to return home.
10:42 As a result of yesterday's Russian missile attack on Ukraine, 38 people were killed, including four children, 190 were injured, Zelensky said. The rescue operation continues. There are 64 people in Kyiv hospitals, 28 were hospitalized in Kryvyi Rih, six in Dnipro.
10:36 Ambulance crews from the Okhmatdet hospital in Kyiv transferred 94 children to other medical institutions, including eight injured, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. In addition, 57 people (all adults) are currently in hospitals at municipal medical institutions, five of them in serious condition. According to forensic examination, 26 people died as a result of yesterday's enemy attack, including three children.
09:57 In the Kharkiv region, over the past day, one person was injured in the village of Liptsy in the Kharkiv district as a result of enemy shelling from a UAV, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:28 Four people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on July 8: three in Pokrovsk and one in Toretsk. Another ten people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:15 A preliminary draft of a joint communiqué by NATO members following the summit in Washington called Ukraine's path to the Alliance "irreversible," CNN reports, citing sources. According to the publication, the question of how strong guarantees Ukraine should be given regarding its NATO membership became a key subject of discussions between the 32 members of the Alliance on the eve of the summit.
The American official said that the White House supports the use of the word "irreversible" in the final communique, provided that the document also confirms that Kyiv's work on democratic reforms will continue. The draft may still change, but the presence of the wording about "irreversibility" should be a significant signal to Kyiv and Moscow, the newspaper notes.
The sources also said that many European countries insisted on the need for strong wording about Ukraine's possible future in the Alliance, but the US and Germany proposed describing a "bridge" to Ukraine's membership.
09:08 In Kherson, near the river, two people were wounded when the Russian army attacked them from a drone, OVA reported.
08:44 As of this morning, 27 people were killed and 117 injured in Kiev as a result of yesterday's missile strike. Among the dead were four children, said the head of the Kyiv State Military Aviation Service, Sergei Popko.
08:35 In the Zaporizhia region, three people were wounded over the past day as a result of Russian attacks on the Vasilievsky and Zaporizhia districts, reported the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
08:26 At night, Russians attacked the Bashtansky district of the Nikolaev region with a ballistic missile - the property of an agricultural enterprise was damaged, two workers were injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. In addition, in the afternoon of July 8 in the Voznesensky district, as a result of an enemy ballistic missile hitting the territory of a farm, a fire of dry grass broke out, which subsequently spread to residential buildings. Two people were injured, including a five-year-old child.
08:07 Drones attacked an oil depot in the city of Kalach-na-Donu in the Volgograd region at night; the fire is still being extinguished, Russian media reports. According to Governor Andrei Bocharov, two objects were attacked that night - an oil depot and an electrical substation. The attack was allegedly "stopped" by air defense forces, but as a result of falling debris, both objects caught fire. A substation is also on fire in the village of Generalskoye in the Rostov region as a result of a drone attack. Governor Vasily Golubev said that air defenses hit "several dozen targets" in the Rostov region.
Belgorod was also hit at night, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported one dead and four injured. Publics write that the attack was carried out in the area of ​​a hospital converted into a military hospital. Earlier, z-activists published footage from the hospital building, overflowing with soldiers.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that 38 UAVs were shot down during the night, 21 of which were over the Rostov Region, seven over the Kursk Region, five over the Astrakhan Region, three over the Belgorod Region, and two over the Voronezh Region.
07:39 In the evening and morning, Russians shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was injured, reported the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
07:22 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 9:
- personnel - about 553,410 (+1220) people,
- tanks - 8178 (+7),
- combat armored vehicles - 15,704 (+19),
- artillery systems - 15,015 (+49),
- MLRS - 1115 (+0),
- air defense systems - 880 (+0),
- aircraft - 361 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 11,922 (+29),
- cruise missiles - 2389 (+36),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 20,212 (+62),
- special equipment - 2516 (+13).
05:56 US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith announced "positive news" regarding air defense for Ukraine during the Alliance summit: "There will be fresh news on air defense. The Ukrainians asked NATO for seven Patriot systems in April. And we have a very positive response on that, which will come in the coming days."
03:23 Orban, following his visits to Kiev and Moscow, sent a letter to the head of the European Council Charles Michel and the heads of EU member states. In it, he insists on a temporary ceasefire, since if this is not done, "in the next two months we may witness more dramatic events on the front." In general, in the secret letter, which was leaked to the media, the Hungarian leader outlined the theses of Russian propaganda about "peace for Ukraine."
02:44 Zelensky and Biden will hold bilateral talks at the NATO anniversary summit in Washington, White House adviser John Kirby confirmed.