North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Russia his full support on the war in Ukraine during talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, state media in North Korea said.

The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to July 12, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,032,690 people, including 1,070 more in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, said on July 5 that he had visited the front line in Kharkiv Oblast, warning of a growing threat of renewed Russian offensives in northeastern Ukraine.

Russia fired a record 728 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, as well as 13 cruise and ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian air force said, in the latest escalation after weeks of mounting Russian aerial and ground attacks in the more than three-year war.

Ukraine is benefiting from President Donald Trump’s recent frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Trump’s first six months in office show that no one knows if it will last. Trump has prioritized trying to find a diplomatic resolution to the war,