Julia Shramko
Denmark and the Netherlands, with U. S. support, are providing Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, which Ukraine is expected to start operating this summer.
In the first half of 2024, the Ministry of Finance fully funded social payments worth UAH 221. 1 billion, including pensions, disability benefits, housing subsidies, maternity and childbirth benefits.
The Ukrainian government has launched a program to compensate farmers for 80% of the costs of demining their agricultural land, allocating UAH 3 billion and providing farmers with an online tool to apply for the program.
The Prosecutor's Office of Luhansk region indicated that a former law enforcement officer who ran "torture chambers" in the occupied Luhansk region was served with a notice of suspicion.
In Chernivtsi, a minibus collided with a tow truck, injuring 11 people, including the driver and 10 passengers, two of whom were children aged 9 and 12.
A married couple in Shyroka Balka, Kherson region, was injured when a Russian shell fell near their home, causing concussion, encephalopathy and blast injuries, and they were hospitalized.
A 66-year-old dormitory worker at a university is suspected of committing lewd acts against a 14-year-old boy.
Seven children aged 9 to 17 and their families were rescued from the Russian occupation in the Kherson region.
Power engineers restored power supply to the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital.
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine needs 128 Western F-16 fighter jets to match Russia's capabilities in the sky.
According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, five children were among the 33 people killed in the July 8 Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
The driver of a Maserati collided with a moped in Kyiv, killing a 48-year-old moped passenger and leaving the car driver with a notice of suspicion for the fatal accident.
In Kherson region, a 57-year-old man died after Russian troops hit a residential building in the village of Ingulets.
A truck accident on Beresteysky Avenue in Kyiv caused traffic disruptions in the direction of Zhytomyrska metro station.
Two military units and a missile range were attacked by drones in Russia's Astrakhan region.
The first watermelon harvest of 160 tons has been harvested in the Kherson region, and Ukrainians will be able to buy them later in different parts of the country.
Russian troops shelled the border area of Chernihiv region with various types of weapons, recording 41 explosions in different localities.
Over the past 24 hours, Kharkiv region suffered 28 hostile attacks with anti-aircraft guns, which damaged infrastructure, residential buildings and caused casualties.
Russians fired mortars and a drone at the border areas and settlements in Sumy region of Ukraine, targeting the Bilopilska and Esmanska communities.
Electricity consumption is increasing due to the heat, blackout schedules are being applied throughout the day, with more blackouts after 1 p. m., and imports and emergency assistance from neighboring countries are expected. After an energy infrastructure facility in the Rivne region came under enemy attack overnight, the response to the attack continues.
One person was killed and seven were injured, including a child, as a result of Russian shelling of several settlements in Donetsk region, damaging residential buildings, an educational institution, vehicles and infrastructure.
Eight people, including four children, were rescued by emergency services after getting stuck in elevators during a power outage in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Russian strikes killed 1 person, injured 4 others, and damaged residential areas, an educational institution and other buildings in many settlements of Kherson region, including the city of Kherson.
According to the Kyiv City Military Administration, 34 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on Kyiv on July 8.
Biden will meet with Zelenskiy on July 10 to discuss further US support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.
After the Russian attack on Kyiv, 38 people remain hospitalized, and 6 children from Okhmatdyt are being treated in Kyiv children's hospitals.
Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov expressed gratitude to NATO allies for providing Patriot, SAMP-T and other air defense systems to protect Ukrainian cities, civilians and infrastructure, calling it a significant strengthening of Ukraine's defense.
Despite Russia's nighttime drone attack on power facilities in western Ukraine, the schedule of power outages should remain unchanged in most regions, according to the head of Ukrenergo.
Overnight, 14 out of 20 Shahed attack drones launched by Russian troops were destroyed in the skies over Ukraine, the enemy attacked the port infrastructure of Odesa region with missiles, three enemy X-59/X-69 missiles and three attack drones did not reach their targets.
As of today, 81 combat engagements took place in the frontline, more than a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector, where the enemy is concentrating its main efforts, and the enemy has become somewhat more active in the Lyman sector.