Russia claims to have taken the “complete control of Lysychansk”. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Sunday July 3 that Kremlin forces controlled this key life in Donbass as well as the entire Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine. “Sergei Shoigu informed the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, about the liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic”, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Follow our live.
Four dead in the Russian city of Belgorod. A series of “strong explosions” killed at least four people and injured four in the Russian city of Belgorod, said the governor of this region bordering Ukraine. The Russian army then claimed to have shot down “the three Tochka-U missiles with cluster munitions launched by Ukrainian nationalists against Belgorod”.
Belarus threatens. the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday that his army had shot down missiles fired from Ukraine at his country, amid speculation of a growing involvement of Minsk in the conflict between kyiv and Moscow. “We are provoked”he launched, threatening to retaliate “instantly” to any strike towards Belarus.
Sloviansk and Kharkiv still under pressure. In eastern Ukraine, At least four civilians have been killed and 12 injured in Sloviansk since Friday morning, according to Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko. In Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, “the morning […] was particularly agitated”for his part declared the regional governor Oleg Singoubov, according to whom missiles hit a district of the city without causing casualties.