Ukraine Breaking News Today Live on 08-07-2024

Former SEAL Team Six Squadron Leader Chuck Pfarrer reviews and comments on a clip taken from a Ukrainian airstrike conducted southwest of Kherson City.

In addition to the typical criticism of Kyiv, the Russian president didn’t comment on potential responses and said he would meet later with military and intelligence officials.

The incursion began on Tuesday morning, with the Russian defence ministry announcing it had deployed air and artillery firepower to try to quash Ukrainian troops breaking into the Kursk border region.

As F-16s arrive in Ukraine, a video published on social media shows the Russian pilot dangling from a parachute as his fighter aircraft falls far below, but just who “they” are is not clear.

The Russian dissidents who were released in last week's prisoner swap have called for Russians not to be sweepingly condemned as war enthusiasts and Putin supporters.

Posted in the ravaged cities of Irpin and Bucha, 27-year-old Filip Siman stole from civilians and dead soldiers, Czech media said.

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