Russian President Putin under pressure means more attacks on the Ukraine Capitol….
That is a response to daily Ukraine attacks on Russian oil/gas facilities across the country…
The Ukraine is Also making the Russian presence in ‘occupied’ Crimea untenable…
NATO is meeting in Turkey….
Trump is there …(Complaining about NO NATO help against Iran)
Zelensky IS there also…
Ukraine is cutting deals with European and Baltic countries for more arms ….
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Ukrainian drones have attacked a dozen tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet” over the past two days that were delivering fuel to Crimea, Kyiv’s military said, as it intensifies efforts to isolate the Russian-occupied peninsula. Ukraine’s drone forces said they had struck eight vessels subject to sanctions in the Sea of Azov, each with a deadweight of about 7,000 metric tons. Two more tankers were hit later in the day, they added.
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Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under a Russian missile attack early on Wednesday, triggering fires and injuring at least two people, the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said. Klitschko said strikes in the capital caused a fire in a storage area and a non-residential building. Two people were injured, with one requiring treatment in hospital. The air alert lasted for about an hour. The latest onslaught comes after Russian strikes – including multiple missile hits on Kyiv – killed 30 people in Ukraine on Monday.
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A missile strike in the southern port of Odesa earlier in the evening injured 10 people, the regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said. Eight were being treated in hospital.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, made a fresh appeal for his country to be allowed to join Nato, saying his country’s armed forces are highly experienced and would boost the alliance’s defense capabilities. He highlighted Ukraine’s ability to strike deep inside Russia and hit oil refineries and other energy targets. He said Ukraine’s armed forces were “eliminating” on average 30,000 Russian troops every month. He is to meet with the US president, Donald Trump, on Wednesday in Ankara. “Frankly, we take no pride in this,” Zelenskyy said, noting that the war with Russia – now in its fifth year – is one “we did not seek but one we are forced to fight.”
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When asked about his meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump said he had spoken to the Ukrainian president and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, before the Nato summit about ending the war. “I think they both want to make a deal. It’s too bad it took so long … Something’s going to come out,” Trump said before the summit. “They both want to get it settled now.”
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Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Ukraine had signed three more “drone deals” with Denmark, Estonia and the Netherlands, making available its expertise gained from more than four years of war with Russia. Ukraine has developed a highly sophisticated drone industry after having only limited expertise in the sector when Russia invaded its smaller neighbour in February 2022. The deals are unique to each country, but typically involve Kyiv providing blueprints for drone technology in exchange for royalties, investments and other military hardware.
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Ukraine’s foreign ministry denounced as “troubling” the International Olympic Committee’s decision to lift the Russian Olympic Committee’s suspension and urged both countries and international sports bodies to maintain restrictions on Russian participation and use of state symbols. “The IOC’s decision to cancel the recommendations on limiting Russian athletes’ participation is a troubling signal for the entire international community,” the ministry said in a statement. It called on countries hosting competitions to uphold a ban on Russian state symbols as “under this flag an unprovoked war is continuing in Ukraine.”
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ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 7, 2026
- Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign against a multitude of diverse targets, including Russian air defenses, petroleum product transport, other logistics, and electrical substations, is collapsing logistics in occupied Crimea.
- Ukraine’s successful intermediate- and long-range strike campaigns have forced a reckoning within the Russian ultranationalist information space, causing commentators to blame the Russian federal government for failing to create a cohesive air defense system that can adequately protect private businesses and critical infrastructure from Ukrainian long-range strikes.
- The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reportedly arrested the commander of the Russian 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade (51st Combined Arms Army [CAA], formerly 1st Donetsk People’s Republic Army Corps [DNR AC], Southern Military District [SMD]) on corruption charges.
- Ukrainian forces conducted long-range strikes against Russian military assets and energy infrastructure in Russia.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced or maintained positions in Kostyantynivka.
Daily Kos grunt Report for Today…
Ukrainian’s ARE suffering despite their ‘stiff upper lips”
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