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Russia's pro-Putin media platforms and figures have scrambled to put a positive spin on US President Donald Trump's pledges to supply key weapons systems to Ukraine and to punish Russia and allies with tariffs to prompt a return to cease-fire talks.
A plainspoken Ukrainian soldier who has been defending the Pokrovsk area says it's a mistake to underestimate Russian forces. They don't often succeed after breaking through Ukrainian lines, says "Dzhokhar," a drone unit sergeant in the 155th Brigade, but Russian forces are relentless.
Russia’s efforts to take control of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in the Donetsk region, may be shifting, according to a frontline soldier defending the area.
As Russian forces battle for control of Kostyantynivka, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, soldiers behind the front lines are coping with the terrible impact. Servicemen at a morgue outside the city identify the bodies of the fallen soldiers who are brought in every day.
The Ukrainian Army is suffering its heaviest losses in the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk areas in the Donetsk region, where battles are intensifying. One worker at a morgue where fallen soldiers were arriving told Current Time, "If you take every death to heart, you’ll lose your mind."
Ukraine experienced a rare respite from Russia's relentless drone attacks overnight from July 12-13, marking the first such lull in two months. However, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia still launched 60 drones and decoys targeting various regions within a 24-hour period.
The city of Kostyantynivka is considered a key target for the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine's Donetsk region. With most civilians having already evacuated, Ukrainian troops are patrolling deserted streets, trying to defend themselves by shooting down incoming drones.
American-made weapons are crucial Ukraine’s defense -- but delays in US support are raising concerns on the front line.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles in the biggest aerial attack yet on Ukrainian cities, urging "biting" sanctions against Russian oil.
Russian lawmakers approved a new transport minister, one day after the body of his predecessor was found with a gunshot wound hours after being sacked by President Vladimir Putin.
A spartan, windowless space at Georgia’s border with Russia is the temporary home, for weeks or months, of Ukrainians who were seized by Russia and are now being deported. “The toilet is awful…. There are only 19 beds for 50 people, and they keep bringing people in without stopping,” one man said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has praised what he called a "very important and useful conversation" with his US counterpart Donald Trump in a phone call on July 4 that came hours after a massive Russian attack on Kyiv.
The United States has announced plans to halt some supplies of weapons it previously provided to Ukraine, citing its own dwindling stockpiles. In Kyiv, residents said they feared being even more vulnerable to attack without US air-defense systems.
An artillery strike by Russian forces hit a hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, destroying the medical facility and injuring several civilians, according to regional officials.
The deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis amid allegations of torture during a police raid last week in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has quickly escalated into a diplomatic confrontation highlighting difficulties in Moscow's relations with its former Soviet republics.
A Soviet-era “Bukhanka” van, retrofitted with modern tech, scans for Russian drones, helping Ukrainian troops survive fierce battles near Pokrovsk, the current hotspot in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A Current Time crew talked to Ukrainian artillerymen fighting outside the city of Pokrovsk as they try to prevent Russian assault groups from approaching it.
As Russian forces push closer to Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, many families already displaced by war are being forced to flee once more. With evacuations under way and the front line advancing, they don’t know if they’ll ever see their homes again.
Amid the war in Ukraine, a girl from Odesa named Nastya Buryk was fighting her own battle with leukemia. Her mother sought out medical care in Israel, where they spent more than two years. But the violence they had escaped in Ukraine caught up with them in Israel when a new war with Iran began.
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