🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has liberated 133 settlements and more than 3,000 square kilometres, noted Vladimir Putin.

'The liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic has been fully completed and the AFU units continue to be neutralised on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye region and Kherson region. The creation of a security band in the border areas of Kharkov, Sumy, and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine is being carried out according to the plan.

The enemy units try to hold their positions, but under the pressure of our troops [the enemy] retreats with great losses, and is forced to retreat with great losses.

Since the beginning of this year, the Russian troops have liberated 133 settlements and have taken under control more than 3,000 square kilometres of our land in Donbass and Novorossia'.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Footage shows a Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile flying over Russia's Chuvash Republic.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — A satellite image of submarines in the waters of the Novorossiysk Naval Base, equipped with anti-drone protection.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — An attacked oil terminal in the Leningrad region.

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🇫🇮🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Finland has restricted shipping in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland and air traffic over this area, Finnish media reported.

According to publications, the country's air force was scrambled during a drone attack on northwestern regions of Russia at night.

The Communications Department of the Finnish General Staff told the Helsingin Sanomat (HS) newspaper that the restrictions were introduced as a precautionary measure due to Ukrainian drones, directed towards Russia.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — In addition to the attempt of a missile strike on Chuvashia, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also attacked the St. Petersburg oil terminal and the Vysotsk port with kamikaze drones.

Judging by the footage published by the enemy, this raid was more successful than the launch of "Flamingo". The Governor of St. Petersburg, Beglov, confirmed the attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the city port, and the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Drozdenco, reported about the "falling debris" on the Vysotsk port.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Another gas station in the nikolaev region has been hit.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) carried out a precision strike on a Russian MiG-29 multirole fighter at Belbek airfield in Crimea.

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🇮🇷⚡️ — Rear Admiral Ali Azmaei has been appointed commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), succeeding the late Alireza Tangsiri.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The destruction of the kamikaze drone Hornet by fire from a MOG machine gun on the Donetsk-Mariupol route.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Objective control of the strike of a drone-kamikaze “Geran-2” on a warehouse in the area of Zeleny Yar in the Nikolaev region.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Since the beginning of the year, Russian strikes have destroyed or damaged more than 200 Ukrainian locomotives, according to Ukrainian authorities.

In this regard, Ukraine has started applying deformable camouflage. It is believed that this allows to deceive the guidance systems of Russian drones, which use AI for automatic target recognition.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Russian Air Defense Forces shot down more than 500 aerial targets on the night of July 4, including 10 "Flamingo" missiles - Russian Defense Ministry

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🇪🇺⚡️ — The heatwave in Europe has claimed the lives of 3,700 people, according to Reuters.

According to the agency, the most severe heatwave ever recorded lasted from around June 20 to June 28.

In France, according to Health Minister Stéphanie Rist, there were 2,025 excess deaths recorded. The mortality rate particularly increased among people over 45 years old.

In Belgium, according to the Health Ministry, about 1,200 excess deaths were recorded between June 18 and June 29. In the Netherlands, the heatwave led to approximately 480 excess deaths, mainly among people over 80 years old.

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