Vira Kravchuk

A charitable organization Save Ukraine successfully brought eight Ukrainian children aged 7 to 17 and their families back to Ukraine from the Russian-occupied Kherson and Donetsk Oblasts.

Ukraine's UN representative Sergiy Kyslytsya drew attention to Russia's systematic targeting of Ukrainian children, from the unlawful deportation of minors from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia to the recent deadly attack on the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv.

Anonymous EU diplomats told Politico that there is "very clear political disapproval" of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's recent trips to Moscow and Beijing, with ongoing discussions about how the EU should respond.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed that the six-month delay of a $61 billion US aid package allowed Russians to launch the Kharkiv offensive, but the eventual approval of aid and the “bravery of Ukrainian soldiers” led to a successful defense.

In just 22 hours ordinary Ukrainians and Ukrainian businesses collected more money than planned for the recovery of the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, which suffered extensive damage from a Russian missile strike, with its operating rooms, toxicology wing, and life-saving equipment completely destroyed.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Russia on 8 July for the first time in five years, highlighting “India-Russia friendship,” while Ukraine’s President reacted with disappointment in seeing "the leader of the world's largest democracy hug 'the world's most bloody criminal.”

Russia massive attacks on different cities of Ukraine killed 4 children aged from 8 to 14 and injured 10 children, aged from 2 to 17.

After his meeting with Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Orban met with Putin in Moscow and wrote about it in a letter to EU leaders, mentioning that Putin discussed Ukrainian military losses in detail but did not talk about Russian casualties at the front.

Death certificates of Ukrainian defenders whose bodies were returned from Russian captivity usually state tuberculosis or heart attack as a cause of death; however, their bodies show visible signs of torture and starvation, and witness accounts of cellmates who survived Russian captivity prove inhumane treatment and humiliation.

The leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer, who is the new Prime Minister of the UK, personally visited Ukraine in 2023, witnessing the destruction caused by the Russian invasion in the liberated areas of Kyiv Oblast and emphasized Britain's resolute support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldier sustained a severe chest wound near Bakhmut that left a hole in his coronary artery, but a team of specialists at the Amosov Institute repaired the injury without opening the chest, using an endovascular approach and intracoronary ultrasound guidance.

Sanctioned by the EU for undermining Ukraine's sovereignty, several Russian singers and artists used YouTube to spread Russian propaganda, prompting the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission to demand the removal of their official accounts.

As Russia persists in its bombardment of Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure across various oblasts, German Ambassador to Ukraine announced that Germany delivered a third Patriot air defense system to Ukraine and that the Ukrainian military personnel completed their training to operate it in Germany.

A local woman from Cherkasy was handed a life sentence for providing precise coordinates of military targets to Russian special services (FSB), leading to deadly missile strikes in the oblast, while she also justified Russia's invasion of Ukraine and glorified Russian forces, particularly the "Wagner" group, according to the Cherkasy Oblast Prosecutor's Office.