On July 8, blackout schedules have been canceled until 14:00 across Ukraine due to lower than expected electricity consumption, but restrictions are expected to be tightened in the evening, from 19:00 to 22:00.
Russian troops shelled residential areas of Kherson, wounding a pregnant woman.
Last night, Ukrainian air defense destroyed 24 out of 27 enemy attack drones in different regions of Ukraine.
Due to Russian attacks and the summer heat, Ukraine is facing electricity shortages, introducing hourly blackout schedules and receiving electricity imports from 5 countries and emergency aid from the EU.
According to the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, as of June 25, 2013 cultural institutions were affected by russian aggression, 332 of them were destroyed.
Two men sustained explosive injuries and shrapnel wounds as a result of the detonation of an unidentified explosive device while extinguishing a fire in Kherson region.
More than 190 settlements in 4 regions are without power due to the weather. Blackout schedules are in effect throughout the day. Significant electricity imports are planned, and emergency aid from two EU countries was received the day before.
Six more children were injured by Russian shelling in Ukraine between July 1 and July 3, bringing the total number of children injured since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion to more than 1984.
Due to high electricity consumption amid the heatwave, Ukraine today introduced rolling blackouts in three phases and planned to import and provide emergency electricity from neighboring countries.
Another 9 children aged 8 months to 17 years were returned from the Russian-occupied Kherson region to the Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Due to increased electricity consumption caused by hot weather and limited imports, Ukraine is implementing scheduled power outages throughout the day, with the largest outages from 4 p. m. to midnight, and receiving emergency supplies from neighboring European countries to ease restrictions.
The Russian army attacked Mykhailivka in the Kherson region, damaging a paramedic and obstetric station and a private house, but no one was injured.
A Russian airstrike on the village of Dariivka in Kherson region killed one person and damaged a school, a humanitarian headquarters, critical infrastructure and residential buildings.
Russian troops attacked Bilozerka in the Kherson region, damaging a residential building, a civilian car, and wounding a 45-year-old woman.
A 50-year-old man died as a result of a Russian kamikaze drone strike on the village of Odradokamyanka, Kherson region.
Ukraine faces power outages throughout the day, with stricter restrictions from 17:00 to 11:00, imports electricity from Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Moldova, while 465 settlements remain without power due to fighting and technical problems.
Russian troops carried out 2 attacks on border territories and settlements of the Sumy Region, 5 explosions were recorded in the Khotyn and Belopol communities.
In the Kherson region, as a result of an airstrike and a drone attack by Russian troops on Olgovka, a 60-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman were injured.
Today, power outage schedules are planned throughout the day, with increased restrictions from 17:00 to 23:00, and Ukraine also imports electricity from 5 countries to meet demand.
Russia is not ready for a cease-fire or withdrawal from the occupied Ukrainian territories, clearly demonstrating its unwillingness to return to the framework of international law, which is a positive sign for partner countries that today the territories cannot be exchanged for a cease-fire.
The Russian occupation forces once again attacked the villages of Veletenskoye and Kindiyka in the Kherson region. As a result of enemy shelling, three people were injured.
Farmers in six regions of Ukraine, including Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson, have already started harvesting early grain and leguminous crops, a total of 48. 3 thousand tons of grain of the new crop have been threshed.
Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories confiscate civilian cars.
Occupiers in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region have launched a new wave of confiscation of civilian vehicles for the needs of the so-called "special military operation", even for minor violations of traffic rules or for no reason.
A 43-year-old man was killed in an attack by the Russian military on a civilian car in the village of Tekstilnoye, Kherson region.
The Air Force shot down 5 of the 9 missiles and all 27 unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Russia at night in several regions of Ukraine.
551 children were killed and more than 1,388 injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression, with Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions suffering the most.
In the occupied Donetsk region, the enemy is massively filtering the local population under the age of 60 for loyalty to Ukraine, holding them in a school building, confiscating their documents and phones, and forcing men to sign contracts with the Russian army to replenish their losses.
As a result of a Russian kamikaze drone attack on a car in Osokorivka, Kherson region, a local resident born in 1974 was killed.
US Vice President Harris said that Putin's proposal for "peace talks" is a demand for surrender, not negotiations.