Russia has deployed three warships and two submarines in the Black Sea, carrying a total of over 30 Kalibr cruise missiles, Moscow's Southern Operations Command announced on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.
"In the northwestern part of the Black Sea, there are currently three ships and two submarines ready to launch more than 30 missiles," the Command wrote in a statement.
Two civilians were killed and four others were injured as a result of bombing by Russian forces in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk in the past 24 hours, the head of the regional and military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on Facebook, according to what Ukrinform reports.
"Russia is killing civilians! On July 4, the Russians killed two civilians in the Donetsk region of Bakhmut. Four more people were injured," Kyrylenko wrote.
Several locations in the border areas of Russia's Kursk region have been the subject of attacks by Ukrainian forces, Governor Roman Starovoit reported on his Telegram channel today.
The village of Markovo was bombed this morning and the Tyotkino settlement is under artillery attack, Starovoit said, also quoted by the Russian news agency Tass.
"Also this morning the bombing began on the populated localities of the Glushkovsky district, near the border. Artillery attacks were recorded in the village of Markovo, explosions were heard again in the Tyotkino settlement", wrote the governor of the region. Roman Starovoyt on his Telegram channel.
According to the governor, reports the Russian agency Tass, the bombings are still ongoing.
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Tyotkino settlement borders Ukraine and has already been bombed several times by the Ukrainian army.
Some residential buildings were slightly damaged on 1 July.
On 3 July, the governor reported that the attack was carried out in the vicinity of a sugar refinery, with no casualties reported.
According to the governor, the roofs, windows and walls of several houses were damaged.
Six people were injured yesterday in the Sumy region, in eastern Ukraine, following two attacks by Russian forces: the head of the regional military administration, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, reported on Telegram, according to Ukrainska Pravda. .
The Moscow army fired missiles at a school in the village of Esman, wounding four people.
Two other people were injured in attacks on one of the villages in the neighboring community of Bilopillia.
Furthermore, in the nearby village of Nova Sloboda, no injuries or victims were reported but a commercial structure and electricity grids were destroyed with mortar fire.
"The Kremlin's goal is to undermine the very existence of Ukraine as a state and we will never allow it": said the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during the Conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine, which is held in Lugano.
"We have to make sure that Ukraine not only wins the war, but also the peace."
Zelensky also spoke from Lugano.
"Russia's war is a challenge to the European system. The reconstruction of Ukraine is the mission of the whole democratic world," said the Ukrainian president.
The losses of the Ukrainian army in Lysychansk, the last city of Lugansk occupied by the Russians,
were 5,000
, of which more than 2,000 were killed.
This was announced by the Russian defense ministry, as reported by Tass.
After weeks of fierce fighting, Kiev's forces withdrew from the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in the oblast that forms the eastern Donbass region with that of Donetsk.
Russian forces are now advancing on the city of Seversk, in Donetsk oblast, "from two directions", as announced by the interior ministry of the self-proclaimed Republic of Lugansk, taken over by TASS.
Meanwhile, Ukraine reiterates its conditions to sit at the table, first of all the ceasefire.
Pope Francis, meanwhile, hypothesizes a trip to Russia and Ukraine.
"I would like to go to Ukraine, and first I wanted to go to Moscow. We exchanged messages about this because I thought that if the Russian president had given me a small window to serve the cause of peace ..." he told Reuters.
"And now it is possible, after returning from Canada, it is possible that he will be able to go to Ukraine," he added.
"The first thing is to go to Russia to try to help in some way, but I would like to go to both capitals."