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Stay on top of Russia-Ukraine war 07-08-2024 developments on the ground with KyivPost fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated war maps.
Looking for children, doctors, and hospital staff under the rubble, hundreds of Ukrainians organized themselves to help the victims, despite the critical destruction.
On July 8, Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine with dozens of different types of ballistic and cruise missiles. In total, more than 30 people were killed, 22of them in Kyiv.
The Russians hit the largest kid’s hospital in Ukraine and Europe - Okhmatdyt, where hundreds of children are treated. The building where the children receive dialysis was destroyed. Kyiv Post reports on the war crime from the scene of the destruction.
Both Minsk and Beijing said the training was scheduled a long ago and the China’s force projection to the Atlantic Alliance’s eastern frontier was peaceful and not provocative.
Soldiers and aircraft from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) kicked off an “anti-terrorism” exercise in Belarus on Monday, in drills officials in both countries said were aimed to help promote regional peace and stability.
State-controlled media in both China and Belarus on Sunday showed images of single PLA Xian Y-20 air transports landing at Belarus’ biggest military airport Baranovichi, and a Belarusian delegation meeting and greeting about dozens of Chinese soldiers and officers exiting the aircraft.
As Kyiv locals try to rescue kids and medical staff and clear rubble from Moscow’s Children’s Hospital attack, Russians on social media are outraged there’s no Kremlin double-tap strike on volunteers.
On Monday morning, July 8, Russia fired more than 40 missiles of various types at Ukrainian cities, killing at least 20 people and hitting a children’s hospital in Kyiv, which trapped children under the rubble rousing concerned Kyiv residents to join in to help.
While Ukrainian civilians were busy trying to save trapped kids, parents, doctors and other medical professionals, Russians shared their joy online that dozens of children and their parents were injured, and some killed.
Sweden has beefed up its national security policy, amid concerns that led its army's supreme commander in January to warn Swedes that they had to "mentally prepare for war."
Russia is the greatest security threat facing Sweden and its allies in the next several years, Stockholm said in a strategy outline published Monday.
Sweden has beefed up its national security policy, amid concerns that led its army's supreme commander in January to warn Swedes that they had to "mentally prepare for war."
Partial destruction of a medical center building in the Dnipro district of Kyiv was recorded during repeated Russian aerial missile attacks.
Seven more civilians were killed today in Kyiv after Russia’s second wave of daytime missile attacks on the nation’s capital, as reported by Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram.
“Repeated [bombing] of the capital. Previously, falling debris was recorded in the Dniprovsky district,” read the caption to the photo released by the State Emergency Service, showcasing the partial destruction of the medical center building.
Yaroslava Maguchikh cleared the bar at 2.10 meters on her first attempt, breaking Stefka Kostadinova’s record which stood for more than three decades, since 1987.
Ukrainian athlete Yaroslava Maguchikh set a new world record in women’s high jump at the Diamond League in Paris. The 22-year-old Maguchikh became the first in the world to clear 2.10 meters.
She was able to break the record after being the only one to clear 2.03 meters in a competition with Australian Nicola Olislagers. Later, the athlete updated two records – personal and world.
The leftist-green Nouveau Front Populaire alliance has claimed a surprise victory in the second round of the snap parliamentary election in France.
The leftist-green Nouveau Front Populaire alliance has claimed a surprise victory in the second round of the snap parliamentary election in France. According to preliminary results, it won just under a third of the seats, with the Macron camp Ensemble coming second and the right-wing populist RN, which won the first round of the election, placed third. Relief is mixed with concern about what comes next in Europe's press.
Macron's gamble paid off
Zelensky to meet Polish PM in Warsaw en route to US
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Warsaw on Monday, the Polish government said, before he flies to the NATO summit in Washington.
The government statement said Prime Minister Donald Tusk would receive Zelensky from 1110 GMT and the two would hold a press conference later.
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**Breaking: a massive Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine in the early hours of today has killed and injured dozens nationwide. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russians attacked Ukraine with more than 40 missiles of various types. Many appear to have used the new tactic of taking circuitous routes across the nation. "And the entire world must use all its determination to finally put an end to the Russian strikes. Killing is what Putin brings," Zelensky said. "Only together can we bring real peace and security." The missiles targeted cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Slovyansk and Kramatorsk,
Taking an apparent direct strike was the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine - Okhmatdyt in Kyiv. Early images showed heaps of rubble, broken glass and bloodied children and staff. Dozens of civilians could be seen later helping to remove rubble with their hands. “Ohmatdyt” is the biggest children's hospital in Ukraine. Since 1894, the institution has been constantly saving lives - many of them kids badly injured near the frontline.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV quoted Xi as saying the "international community should create conditions and provide assistance for the two sides to resume direct dialogue and negotiations".
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday that world powers should help Russia and Ukraine re-start direct negotiations during a visit to Beijing branded a "peace mission" by the European leader.
Orban's trip to China comes a day before NATO is due to hold a summit to mark its 75th anniversary, with setbacks in Ukraine expected to dominate discussions, and follows surprise visits by the Hungarian premier to Russia and Ukraine in the past week.
Kyiv Post special correspondent Sergii Kostezh made exclusive footage of Kyiv Children's Hospital, which was targeted in Russia's missile attack on Monday, July 8.
The TASS news agency reported a claim by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) that it had prevented Ukrainian special services’ attempt to recruit a pilot to steal a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber.
The FSB claimed on its website on Monday that it had thwarted a plot by Ukrainian special services supported by other Western intelligence agencies to hijack a Tu-22M3 supersonic strategic bomber, without producing any verifiable evidence.
According to its announcement which was reported by TASS, Ukrainian intelligence officers had offered an unnamed pilot from Russia’s Aerospace Forces $2 million along with an offer of Italian citizenship to fly and land the missile carrier in Ukraine.
Russia launched a massive missile attack on multiple Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Slovyansk, and Kramatorsk, damaging residential buildings and infrastructure.
Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday, July 8, in an attack that killed at least 20 people and smashed into a children's hospital in Kyiv.
Updated. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 31 people died in Ukraine as a result of the enemy attack, and another 154 were injured with information still being updated. Twenty people died in Kyiv, and another 61 were injured.
Ukraine is hopeful that these advanced US-made jets will help achieve air superiority over Russia and better protect its troops and cities from daily bombardments.
The Netherlands will send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine "without delay," announced Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp during a weekend visit to Kyiv.
On his first international trip since taking office last week, Veldkamp confirmed that the Netherlands is ready to dispatch the jets following the approval of export licenses last week.
He still faces several headaches, including a left that now believes it has a mandate to govern, his own unpopularity, and open dissent among some of his most influential allies.
President Emmanuel Macron has avoided his nightmare scenario of the far right coming to power in France but still faces an unprecedented challenge steering his country and the remainder of his presidency through an uncertain future.
Macron's centrist forces performed more strongly than expected in the legislative elections, projected to come in second behind the resurgent left, with the far right that won the first round on June 30 in only third place.
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The unannounced visit comes a day before the NATO summit and follows Orban's surprise trips to Russia and Ukraine in the past week.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, state media reported, in a visit the European leader has branded as a "Peace mission 3.0" after recent trips to Moscow and Kyiv.
The unannounced visit comes a day before NATO is due to hold a summit to mark its 75th anniversary, with setbacks in Ukraine set to dominate discussions, and follows Orban's surprise trips to Russia and Ukraine in the past week.
Ukrainian antiaircraft gunners shot down a Russian Su-25 Fighter Bomber that was targeting positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian antiaircraft gunners shot down a Russian Su-25 ground attack aircraft in the Donetsk region, as reported by the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops via Telegram.
“In the Pokrovsky sector, our Ukrainian servicemen shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft that was firing at the positions of units of the Defense Forces,” the report said.
Anti-Ukraine French right-wing party set to lose elections; AFU claims it brought down another Su-25; Newly appointed Dutch and UK ministers visit Zelensky in Odesa to discuss missiles, fighters.
In early exit polls of French elections wrapping up Sunday evening, a coalition of left-wing parties looked set to beat the far-right party led by Marine Le Pen, and also President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling center-left coalition, in what Agence France Presse (AFP) called a “stunning outcome” of parliamentary elections.
None of the groups won an absolute majority in the second round of the poll. Still, it projected an unexpected reversal of fortunes for Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), which was previously poised to change France’s course on key issues, especially funding for Kyiv.
