Air Force: Air defense at work in Ukraine's western Lviv and Ternopil oblasts. Ukraine's Air Force reported on Telegram just before 3 a.m. local time that air defenses were operating in Lviv and Ternopil oblasts. The post on Telegram asked residents to remain in shelters.

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Ukraine destroys 8 Iranian-made drones over Mykolaiv Oblast. Ukraine's Southern Air Command reported shooting down four Lancet drones, two Merlin-VR drones, one Zala drone, and one Orlan-10 drone above Mykolaiv Oblast on July 5.

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Air raid alert goes off in Kyiv and several Ukrainian oblasts, Air Force warns of possible attack The Air Force warned of the threat of missile attacks in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Poltava, and Kharkiv oblasts overnight on July 6.

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Russian media: Fire erupts at oil depot in Russian-occupied Makiivka. Five fuel tanks caught fire at an oil depot in Russian-occupied Makiivka in Donetsk Oblast late on July 5, Russian state-controlled news outlet TASS reported.

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3/ According to a VChK-OGPU source, "Anna and other family members stopped communicating even with the general's very close friends and colleagues, which … indicates that things are not going well for Surovikin so far.

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Prigozhin is the owner of PMC Wagner. After the coup in Russia, the FSB searched his house and found these photos

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A defendant detonated an explosive device in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi Court, the Defense Forces have succeeded in the area of Klishchiyivka near Bakhmut, and IAEA experts have found no traces of mines at the ZNPP. We have collected the main news for July 5.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) experts have not found explosives during their recent inspections of parts of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

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4/ "No commanders to go to the front line with. No equipment, no evacuation, no radio communications. They're just throwing them in like dogs." The men complain that they are fighting "with a submachine gun against a tank. That's how we fight, the Russian army."

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The men also say that they have had no leave for 10 months, i.e. since about November 2022. Their relatives are asking the authorities for help and to intervene against the local military leadership. This is unlikely to happen.

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