Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the war in Ukraine on July 2. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for more than a year.
19:13. In the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation, an explosion occurred near the military airfield, causing a crater, reports Medusa. The diameter of the sinkhole is about 10 meters and the depth is about four meters.
18:13. Zelensky: The occupiers will be afraid to approach Crimea and our shores of the Sea of Azov, reports pravda.com.ua. “It is enough to remember what ambitions Russia had at the beginning of the full-scale aggression and which of them are now at the bottom of the Black Sea,” he said.
16:22. On Saturday, Ukrainian athletes on the Ukrainian-Polish border handed over the Ukrainian flag to the Lithuanian athletes, which they received from the soldiers in Bakhmut and which is planned to be brought to the NATO summit in Vilnius. “Border guards on the Ukrainian-Polish border welcomed the participants of the ultramarathon, which started in Kyiv on June 25. The athletes ran carrying the Ukrainian flag, which they received from the Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced. Athletes ran through Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Volhynia regions.
15:20. Poland will deploy an additional five hundred police officers on the border with Belarus, the country’s interior minister announced on Twitter on Sunday. “Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus, I have decided to reinforce our forces with five hundred Polish police officers from riot prevention and anti-terrorist units,” said Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski. “They will join the 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers who are guarding the security of this border,” he added.
14:15. In the afternoon of July 2, Russian invaders fired at residential areas of Kherson, several people were injured, reports pravda.com.ua.
12:15. Ukrainian Air Force representative Yuriy Ignats says that on the night of July 2, air defense forces shot down 8 drones and three missiles, reports pravda.com.ua.
11:15. The losses of Russian troops in Ukraine reached 229,660 soldiers by Sunday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 790 invaders were destroyed during the day.
10:05. The financial support of the European Union (EU) and its member states will not be enough for the reconstruction of Ukraine, therefore there is close cooperation with the G7 and other countries supporting Ukraine, as well as with international financial institutions, the Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Diāna Eglīte told LETA.
09:05. On the night of July 2, Kiev was attacked by enemy drones, explosions rang out, an air alert was announced, people hid in shelters, reports pravda.com.ua.
00:10. On Saturday, Zelensky held an off-site meeting at nuclear power plants controlled by Ukraine to “assess potential threats to them,” pravda.com.ua reports.
2023-07-02 16:04:15
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