▶️ The Zala UAV team wiped out Ukrainian army stronghold and armor in the Avdeyevka frontline area, thwarting the rotation of enemy troops, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry/TASS

▶️ Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The ceremony took place five years after the Russian head of state signed a decree bestowing the honor on Modi.

Video: TASS/Ruptly

▶️ The Russian Defense Ministry released footage from the first industrial chemical laboratory uncovered in the area of the special military operation in Ukraine.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry/TASS

❗️Key takeaways from Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov’s statements:

▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an in-depth discussion of the entire range of issues

▪️Ukraine was constructively discussed by Putin and Modi

▪️The Kremlin is unaware of the contents of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s letter to the EU leadership following talks with Putin

▪️Modi doesn’t seek to be a mediator for Ukraine but supports peace, just like the Russian leadership

▪️Russia and India signed a range of documents on the sidelines of Modi’s visit to Moscow

▪️Russia finds it hard to get through to the West, which is unwilling to listen to Moscow

▶️ Another rotation of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors has taken place at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the plant’s press service reported.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry/TASS

▶️ Russia’s Defense Ministry uploaded a video based on data recording equipment showing the destruction of two out of four US-made M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers wiped out in the past 24 hours.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry/TASS

▶️ Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi ended his two-day official visit to Russia and left Moscow. His plane took off from the Vnukovo airport.

Video: TASS /Ruptly

▶️ Police officers have rescued a bear cub that got entangled in fishing nets in the Kamchatka Region, Russian Interior Ministry Spokeswoman Irina Volk reported.

Video: Russian Interior Ministry Spokeswoman Irina Volk's Official Telegram Channel/TASS

▶️ People are happy to see their pets saved by rescuers from a burning apartment block in Russia’s southern city of Bataisk.

Video: Russia’s Emergencies Ministry/TASS

❗️ TASS News Roundup, July 9:

▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

▪️Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi called for a reform of the UN Security Council and for New Delhi to be made a permanent member of the council, and underscored the need of peaceful settlement in Ukraine through diplomacy and participation of both sides of the conflict in their joint statement

▪️Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi ended his two-day official visit to Russia and left Moscow

▪️Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote a letter to EU leaders urging them to seek a ceasefire in Ukraine, DPA reported

▪️Washington is resolved to change the government in Georgia after the country holds its parliamentary election in October, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service said

▪️The missile that hit a children’s hospital in Kiev was most likely fired from a Norway-supplied NASAMS air defense system, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya said