Russia's Defense Ministry reported Thursday that its forces had struck Ukrainian military airfields and facilities, while Ukraine said that Russia launched a new round of air strikes on Kiev and other places.

US President Donald Trump is exploring the possibility of imposing tough secondary sanctions against countries that trade oil with Russia, including China, India and Turkey. It is reported by The Times.

The Kremlin expresses readiness for peaceful negotiations over the Ukraine conflict, pending a response from Kiev. Previous talks have stalled, with US involvement and international military aid influencing dynamics.

In addition, the network publishes videos of the consequences of the Russian attack on Kiev, which show a damaged shopping center in the Shevchenkivsky district of the city. The Kiev Regional Military Administration noted that the massive overnight enemy attack on Kievshchyna lasted almost 10 hours.

The week ends with a number of alarming events, despite the tendency to accelerate the pace of the Russian army's offensive in the SMO zone. One of them, of course, can be considered the ongoing attacks of the enemy's kamikaze "Fierce" and "Morok" UAVs on the infrastructure of numerous enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.

A damaged residential building is pictured at the site of an air strike in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kiev, Ukraine, July 10, 2025. Russia's overnight strike on Kiev on Thursday killed at least two people and injured 16 others,

Kiev is noisy due to explosions on July 11, according to a correspondent of "Focus". Before that, the Air Force warned about the threat of UAVs in the capital. "Kiev - threat of attack UAVs! Possible work of air defense, during the alarm stay in shelters!", - said in the message of the Air Force.

Russian ambassador Denis Alipov responded to one story (‘If you take a gun to culture, you kill human spirit’, July 4) in TOI ’s eight-part series on .

The collective West seeks strategically defeating Russia, using Ukraine as a ram, but it will not succeed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during talks with Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev.

Chloropicrin is banned in war under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Moscow is a signatory. Russia is already widely using tear gas, the Dutch Defense Ministry said, and called the deployment of chloropicrin a "grave violation" of the CWC.

Mining and ore exports are rapidly falling in Ukraine. The National Association of Mining Industries of Ukraine (NADPU) is sounding the alarm: changes to the Tax Code and The subsoil code will finish off the industry.