The Russian military has suffered 1.4 million battlefield casualties and as many as 450,000 deaths since its February 2022 full-scale invasion. Since World War II, no major power has suffered anywhere near these numbers of casualties or fatalities in any war.
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🇨🇿🇷🇺🇺🇦 Czech President Petr Pavel delivered a blunt message in Ankara today: Moscow has to accept that the only real way out of the Ukraine war is sitting down at the negotiation table.
That’s coming from a former NATO general and one of Kyiv’s strongest backers, right in the middle of the ongoing NATO summit.
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BREAKING: Norway will provide $306 million to support Ukraine’s air defence, specifically to strengthen protection against ballistic missiles, reports Reuters.
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— @AJENews Jul 7, 2026
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Zelensky: I am very grateful to Canada for the new support package – a very strong package of $900 million. First of all, we are making sure that there is more air defense.
We are also preparing an agreement in the Drone Deal format between our countries.
Canada invited Ukraine to become a founding state of the bank in the field of defense, security and resilience. It will work on attracting capital and developing defense-industrial potential and technologies, tested in real combat conditions.
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— @UkrReview Jul 7, 2026
Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson has dismissed any suggestions that Russia is planning an attack on a NATO country, stating that Moscow is “very well aware” such a move would be an “extremely bad idea.” Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, he said Sweden sees no signs of direct confrontation but notes increased hybrid threats, including damage to underwater cables and reckless actions by Russia’s “shadow fleet.”
— @IuliiaMendel Jul 7, 2026
BREAKING:
Russia’s largest refinery has suspended operations following a Ukrainian attack
According to Reuters, the Omsk Oil Refinery suspended operations after a Ukrainian drone attack on July 6.
As a result of the strike, the primary oil processing unit, which accounts for about 38% of the plant’s capacity, caught fire and was damaged.
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— @visegrad24 Jul 7, 2026
🔴 Russians are burning harvest in the Kherson region.
Drones are setting grain fields and villages ablaze.
5,000 hectares of grain destroyed: food for more than a million people.
A Russian drone killed Viktor Hordiienko’s father. The farmer is carrying on the fight:
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— @ZarinaZabrisky Jul 7, 2026
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MORE: Ukrainian forces conducted their deepest drone strike against Russia thus far in the war, striking the largest oil refinery in Russia over 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Russia has been largely unable to defend against and adapt to Ukrainian long-range strikes in recent weeks and months, despite undertaking some limited mitigation efforts, including re-allocating air defenses and creating mobile fire groups.
Ukrainian forces have significantly increased the frequency, range, and intensity of strikes against Russian oil infrastructure deep in the Russian rear since March 2026, taking advantage of overstretched Russian air defenses, reducing Russia’s refining capacity, and causing gasoline shortages across Russia and occupied Ukraine.Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar)NEW: Russian forces launched their fourth large-scale missile and drone strike against Ukraine since June 1 on the night of July 5 to 6. This latest strike series again heavily targeted Kyiv City and caused dozens of civilian casualties.
Other Key Takeaways:
Russian forces are taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stocks of anti-ballistic missile interceptors to maximize the destructive potential of their strike packages.
Russian forces have been decreasing the number of ballistic missiles in each strike package in recent weeks as Ukraine’s interception rate has declined.
Russian forces likely purposely timed this latest large-scale strike package to generate informational effects ahead of the July 7 to 8 NATO summit in Turkey.
Ukrainian forces conducted their deepest drone strike against Russia thus far in the war, striking the largest oil refinery in Russia over 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Russian officials are trying to present Russia as a willing negotiator and Ukraine as the obstacle to peace ahead of US President Donald Trump’s meetings with Ukraine and Europe at the July 7 to 8 NATO summit.
Russia is engaging in increasingly risky kinetic behaviors against NATO member states as part of its “Phase Zero” condition-setting campaign.
Ukrainian forces advanced in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions.— https://x.com/TheStudyofWar/status/2074262425554067757
— @TheStudyofWar Jul 7, 2026