In February 2026, in Kharkiv, two underage girls recruited by Russian intelligence services fatally poisoned a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine.
The Office of the President confirmed that yesterday, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, the presidents of Ukraine and Poland, Volodymyr Zelensky and Karol Nawrocki, had a brief conversation.
Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Borisoglebsk Military Airfield in the Voronezh region and road bridges in the Urazovo and Shelayevo districts of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.
Russian forces have significantly intensified their shelling of Zaporizhzhia. To terrorize the civilian population, the Russians have redeployed a brigade—which had been terrorizing the Kherson region—to this sector of the front.
An enemy drone attacked a residential area in Kherson, killing a 71-year-old resident; a Russian drone also struck a car in the city center, killing a 53-year-old man; several people were injured during the Russian attacks.
On the night of July 8, Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck nine more tankers belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the Sea of Azov.
As of the morning of July 8, Russian attacks had left additional consumers without electricity in six Ukrainian regions, while severe weather continued to disrupt power supply to ten settlements in the Khmelnytskyi region.
On the morning of July 8, Russian forces attacked a minibus with a drone in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson; one person was killed and others were wounded.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 139 drones launched by Russian forces during a large-scale overnight attack that began on the evening of July 7.