Russia announces it has shot down more than 500 Ukrainian drones
Russia shot down 519 Ukrainian drones overnight over around twenty regions and annexed Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday July 6.
The drone attacks notably targeted the Moscow region, where eleven drones heading towards the Russian capital were destroyed, and that of Leningrad (north-west) where 47 aircraft were shot down, according to local authorities.
At least 10 dead in the kyiv region
Russian bombings have killed at least 10 people in the kyiv region, according to local authorities. In the capital, at least nine people were killed and 46 injured, the head of kyiv’s military administration, Tymour Tkatchenko, said on Telegram.
At least one other person died in the Boucha district, on the outskirts of kyiv, reported the head of the regional military administration, Mykola Kalashnyk.
The city of Sevastopol deprived of electricity
The city of Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia, is without electricity due to a Ukrainian attack on energy infrastructure, announced the local governor appointed by Moscow, Mikhail Razvojaïev.
“Following an enemy attack on energy infrastructure located on the outskirts of Sevastopol, our city found itself temporarily without electricity,” Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram.
Zelensky assures that “fighting continues” in Kostyantynivka
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured Sunday evening that fighting continued for the strategic town of Kostyantynivka, in eastern Ukraine, which the Kremlin had announced the capture of.
“The fighting continues for Kostyantynivka, which (Russian President Vladimir) Putin has already claimed as his own, but it is obvious that he will never dare to show himself there,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address.
