Ukraine…Russia Day 1,591….Huge Russian Attack on Kyiv…..

Ukraine leader Zelensky vows a Ukraine counter attack against Russia….

Ukraine is making strikes on Russian oil facilities as much as 2,000 miles away…

Zelensky also wants a US ok to make Patriot anti-missile’s IN Ukraine….

Will Trump do anything at the coming NATO meeting in Turkey soon?

Hegseth WANTED to make large cuts in US troops in N ATO, but was countermanded…..

This is the Defense Sec that is asking Congress for BILLIONS and has NOT sent the Middle East US Military assets home since Feb.?

The Guardian….

Ukraine and Russia have promised fresh assaults after Moscow launched a huge barrage on Kyiv, killing at least 27 people, tearing open apartment buildings and sending tens of thousands of people to shelters. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday his forces would “definitely” retaliate for the overnight pummelling of the capital as he inspected the site of an apartment block partially destroyed in the attack. In Moscow, the Kremlin vowed to further ramp up the “pressure” on Kyiv as rescuers scoured the rubble for survivors. Mayor Vitali Klitschko described it as the “enemy’s most massive attack on the capital”.
Zelenskyy urged allies to send more air defences and asked the US for licences to manufacture Patriot air defence missiles. “Air defence supplies for Ukraine are an absolute and critical priority,” he said on Facebook. The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said she would propose new sanctions on Moscow over the attack, while UN chief António Guterres reiterated his call for a ceasefire.
Donald Trump “wants this war settled so the senseless killing ends”, a US official said in Washington after the Kyiv barrage. The president “remains optimistic that we’ll ultimately get a peace deal done”, the official said. US efforts to broker a ceasefire have so far failed. Zelenskyy called on Ukraine’s allies to discuss speeding up air-defence aid at the Nato summit in Ankara next week, which Trump will attend, and has said he hopes to have a meeting with the president on the summit sidelines. ‌
A Ukrainian publishing house said it had lost around 800,000 books when a warehouse was destroyed in Russia’s strike on Kyiv. BookChef Publishing, which is one of Ukraine’s largest publishers and includes books by George Orwell and Barack Obama, posted pictures on Telegram of the destroyed building with smouldering piles of rubble around and firefighters working at the scene.
Russian attacks on Thursday killed three people in ⁠different regions of eastern Ukraine, regional officials said. One person died and three were injured in attacks around the town of Nikopol, near the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia ⁠nuclear power plant, according to the Dnipropetrovsk region’s governor, and a seven-year-old ‌child was killed ‌and two other children injured in an attack further north-east near the town of Synelnykove. In the Donetsk region, Russian forces bombed the town of Oleksandrivka, killing one person and injuring two, the governor said.
A suspect has been identified in the investigation into a parcel bombing that seriously wounded a sanctioned Ukraine-born multimillionaire and two others in Monaco, the principality’s prosecutor’s office said. “An arrest warrant has been issued for the suspect, who will be the subject of an Interpol red notice from this evening,” the prosecutor’s office added on Thursday. France’s Le Figaro daily and BFMTV said the suspect, who was captured on CCTV wearing a black fisherman’s hat, is believed to be a woman who tried to pass as a man….

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ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 2, 2026

Russian forces conducted a large drone and missile strike series against Ukraine on the night of July 1 to 2, primarily targeting Kyiv City and killing at least 27 and injuring at least 91.
The frequency of Russian large-scale drone and missile strikes against Ukraine lessened in June 2026 for unclear reasons. Russian forces likely retain the ability to conduct large-scale drone and missile strikes against Ukraine several times per month, as they have in recent months.
Russian technological adaptations and strike package innovations continue to lead to increasing amounts of civilian harm, in part because these adaptations are making it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to shoot down Russian drones and missiles.
Russia has been using its shadow fleet vessels to facilitate its drone incursions into NATO airspace since 2024.
The Russian military command is reportedly reducing its plans to augment strategic reserves in favor of replenishing Russian frontline troops.
Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces made confirmed advances on July 2.
Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure on the night of July 1 to 2….

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