{"id":60763,"date":"2026-07-08T00:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/news-and-information-from-ukraine-2\/08\/07\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:37:08","slug":"news-and-information-from-ukraine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/news-and-information-from-ukraine-2\/08\/07\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"News And Information From Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1595.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>NATO 2026 Summit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As leaders have gathered in Ankara for <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marktemnycky\/2026\/07\/01\/what-defense-leaders-will-discuss-at-the-2026-nato-summit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:the 36th NATO summit;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the 36th NATO summit&quot;}\">the 36th NATO summit<\/a> on July 7th and 8th to discuss the Russian War in Ukraine and defense spending, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has argued that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO. He stated that it would be wrong to exclude a country that had developed advanced technical capabilities and built strong defenses in its long struggle against the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ukrainian president said his country had developed almost all the weapons it needed, and now only required European help in developing an alternative to the US Patriots to protect against ballistic missile attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/nato-leaders-sign-off-massive-020353031.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAColuFZM-gkL5Sh5xuc4CTa0b4yWkmgq5txKRzDcEs_1FIIOeuo-efz07U1MfGstKugY3NCvB6eME3PuN3QFowpIw7MRbyvBwk-cuM5PcAaiiYTjTSDwlcbahGhgCwbVbGPoGPsC33ADyRCQ-K84vdUADaJthp9YF8ujgHkMCYuP\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:is due to adopt;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;is due to adopt&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is due to adopt<\/a> a joint declaration that is also expected to include military aid pledges worth \u20ac140 billion ($160 billion) for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200b<strong>Russia Pummels Ukraine amid Kyiv\u2019s Deepest-Ever Strike into Siberia<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>KYIV, UKRAINE &#8211; JULY 06: A girl hold to her mother near the residential building damaged during the Russian attack In Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 06, 2026. (Photo by Stringer\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><small>Anadolu via Getty Images<\/small><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Kyiv in the early hours of July 6, hammering Ukraine&#8217;s capital with 68 ballistic and cruise missiles alongside 351 drones and decoys. The attack, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned of on July 5, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/19805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:intelligence reports;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;intelligence reports&quot;}\" class=\"link \">intelligence reports<\/a>, appeared to be a calculated show of force on the eve of NATO&#8217;s summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 7-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bThe heaviest damage was in Kyiv, where the city administration reported at least <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dsns_telegram\/67985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:18 people killed;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;18 people killed&quot;}\" class=\"link \">18 people killed<\/a> and more than 50 wounded. Rescue crews fanned out across more than 20 strike sites, recording the worst destruction in the Podil and Darnytskyi districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bIn the historic, central Podil district, a ballistic missile ripped through a nine-story apartment block, obliterating flats from the fifth to the ninth floors and leaving the upper section of the building hanging open; firefighters rescued 17 residents from the building and evacuated another 28 from the upper floors by ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bIn the southeastern Darnytskyi district, falling debris damaged another 25-story residential building and sparked a blaze in a 30-story tower. Elsewhere in the city, thick black smoke covered Kyiv&#8217;s skyline after strikes sparked fires in several other districts. In Vyshneve, a town five miles from Kyiv International Airport, a Russian strike on an ammunition depot triggered hours of secondary explosions, forcing 500 residents to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bIn total, the Ukrainian government reported at least 28 people killed and close to 100 others injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bThe Ukrainian Air Force reported bringing down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/67506\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:37 cruise missiles and 326 drones;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;37 cruise missiles and 326 drones&quot;}\" class=\"link \">37 cruise missiles and 326 drones<\/a>, but admitted failing to intercept any of the 29 ballistic missiles fired by Russia. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attributed the nil interception rate to a critical shortage of interceptor missiles, referring implicitly to Patriot missiles, the only system in Ukraine&#8217;s hands capable of shooting down ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bIn a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/6ca8de40-15e4-470e-a258-6dd2d8d9d83e?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:interview with the Financial Times;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;interview with the Financial Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">interview with the Financial Times<\/a> recorded on Monday, President Zelenskyy argued that the &#8220;battle in the sky&#8221; would determine the outcome of the near-stalemate war. Having denied Moscow victory on land and driven much of Russia&#8217;s fleet from the Black Sea with its novel naval drones, Ukraine had entered the conflict&#8217;s new phase. &#8220;Today, I believe victory in this war belongs to whoever is smarter,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bThe Ukrainian President nevertheless described anti-ballistic air defense as his country&#8217;s greatest vulnerability. He pointed to the grim shortage of Patriot PAC-3 missiles, saying deliveries sometimes arrived<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>\u200bUkraine\u2019s Attacks Inside Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the early hours of July 6, Ukraine pounded the <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.themoscowtimes.com\/2026\/07\/06\/ukraina-udarila-poposlednemu-krupnomu-rossiiskomu-npz-nepopadavshemu-pod-ataki-bpla-a200069\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Omsk oil refinery;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Omsk oil refinery&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Omsk oil refinery<\/a> in what seems to be Kyiv&#8217;s deepest strike against Russia. It&#8217;s Russia&#8217;s largest refinery with an annual refining capacity of 22 million tonnes, located in Western Siberia, some 1,550 miles from Ukraine (Ukraine&#8217;s Special Operations Forces claimed an even greater strike range of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ukr_sof\/3035\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:1,865 miles;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;1,865 miles&quot;}\" class=\"link \">1,865 miles<\/a>). It was the last of Russia&#8217;s ten biggest refineries to have so far escaped drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The attack on the Omsk refinery is a continuation of Ukraine&#8217;s long-range campaign, designed to sap Russia&#8217;s military machine, that has reached an unprecedented intensity in recent months. According to the Financial Times, Ukrainian forces struck Russian refineries at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/13687b48-9e54-44a1-bd4d-600bbc052baf?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:194 times;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;194 times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">194 times<\/a> in the first half of 2026, an elevenfold increase compared to last year. The successful hits climbed to a record 16 this May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bSuch an unprecedented pace of the campaign has led to Russia&#8217;s worst fuel crisis in decades, forcing more than half of the country&#8217;s regions to impose restrictions on fuel sales and leaving drivers facing long lines at gas stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u200bKyiv&#8217;s growing success is, in part, explained by a surge in drone production, which supports its broader long-range campaign. Moscow claimed to have intercepted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia\/65266\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:389 drones on July 4;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;389 drones on July 4&quot;}\" class=\"link \">389 drones on July 4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mod_russia\/65340\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:519 on July 6;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;519 on July 6&quot;}\" class=\"link \">519 on July 6<\/a> (among the largest single-night barrages of the war). But Ukrainian officials tacitly credit American intelligence assistance, which helps chart flight paths that evade Russian air defenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katyasoldak\/2026\/07\/07\/tuesday-july-7-russias-war-on-ukraine-news-and-information-from-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Forbes.com;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Forbes.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Forbes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/tuesday-july-7-russia-war-030643171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1595. NATO 2026 Summit. 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