Russia fired 68 missiles and 351 attack drones at Ukraine overnight into July 6.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because Russia has resumed hitting Ukraine's grid substations heading into a war-strained year and just opened a new front across the Oskil river near Kupiansk, threatening both civilian heat and a fresh Ukrainian defensive collapse.
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"Russia fired 68 missiles and 351 attack drones, he added."
"on the night of July 6, the enemy launched a massive combined strike against Ukraine, using a record 419 aerial assault weapons (68 missiles and 351 UAVs). The main direction of the strike was Kyiv."
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Extracted JUL 6; approved JUL 6 at 0.65. Corroborated by interfax.com.ua JUL 7; confidence 0.65 → 0.80.
- Russian forces established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Oskil river north of Kupiansk
- Strikes on Ukrainian transmission substations resumed on Jun 26 after a five-week pause
- Russian Shahed-type drone output has reached roughly 190 airframes per week
- Neither side retains the capacity for a decisive offensive before autumn
- The EU approved a fourteenth military-assistance tranche including long-range strike systems