Ukraine: 5 dead including a family in Russian strikes

“We firmly condemn the decision of the FIDE council to authorize the Russian women’s team to participate in the 2025 women’s world team championship,” said Ukrainian Sports Minister Matvy Bidny. “This decision is a blatant contempt for the fact that the Russian occupants have already killed more than 600 Ukrainian athletes and coaches,” he added.

At the start of the week, the Fide announced that a team of players of Russian nationality would be authorized to participate “under banner of the Fide” and on condition of obtaining a “letter of non-objection” from the International Olympic Committee (CIO) at the next World Championships by women’s team, scheduled for November in Spain.

“I spoke with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz,” says Volodymyr Zelensky, evoking “a very good conversation” with a “will to help and continue to support us”.

During this discussion, the two leaders addressed the recent “bill guaranteeing the independence and efficiency of anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine”, “the implementation of agreements with the EU” and the “first line situation”, as well as “the need for additional funding for drone production.

The authorities of the Ukrainian Donetsk region (east) ordered the evacuation of “families with children” of a dozen localities located near the front on Thursday, where Russian troops continue to nibble on the ground. “We start the forced evacuations of families with children of the city of Dobropillia” and nine villages, details on Telegram the governor of the region, Vadim Filachkin, who specifies that “around 928 children are currently in these localities”.

Two people were killed and 14 others injured Thursday in Russian strikes in Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine, local authorities announced. “The Russians have dropped four bombs on the city and bombed it with artillery,” said Vadym Filachkin, the governor of the Donetsk region.

Previously, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a Russian strike in a village near Izioum (northeast) had caused the death of three people, a couple and their 36-year-old son.

The Ukrainian parliament has adopted this week a law reducing the autonomy of two anti -corruption bodies. A decision seen as a step back by thousands of demonstrators who paraded in kyiv Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 July. Volodymyr Zelensky finally retroped this Thursday, announcing a new bill.

Publications on social networks show Dodge RAM 1500 vehicles armed with drones in Russia. This type of vehicle from the Stellantis group should not be able to be imported because of the commercial sanctions which aim Moscow. The verifiers take stock of these images.

Volodymyr Zelensky announces proposing a new bill ensuring “independence” of anti -corruption structures, while demonstrations shake Ukraine.

A family of three was killed in the night from Wednesday to Thursday by a Russian strike in northeast of Ukraine. This bombing in a village near Izioum caused the death of a couple and their 36 -year -old son at their home, said the prosecution of the Kharkiv region, where the locality is. This family had fled her village in Bogouslavka, taken by Russian forces at the beginning of 2022 and later released by the Ukrainian army, to take refuge in that of Pidlyman where she perished.

The European Union welcomed the will of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday to propose in his country a new law on the independence of anti -corruption agencies, after having expressed his concerns on this subject this week. “We have seen that the Ukrainian government has taken measures. We welcome these actions,” said a spokesperson for the European Commission during the daily press point in Brussels.

One woman was killed and another was injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Sochi, in southern Russia, Russian authorities on Telegram said on Thursday, the day after a new session of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul. “These are two women who were on the street at the time of the fall of fragments,” said authorities in the Krasnodar region.

In total, 42 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed by Russian anti -aircraft forces on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, including seven in the same region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. One of the drones touched an oil base in Sirius, near Sochi, said a local official, Dmitri Plichkin, on Telegram.

On the move to Beijing on the occasion of a China-EU summit, the president of the European Council Antonio Costa urged China on Thursday to “use its influence on Russia” to end the war in Ukraine. “As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, we call on China to use its influence on Russia (…) to put an end (…) (to) war of aggression against Ukraine,” he said.

A new peace negotiation session was held in Istanbul on Wednesday evening. Ukraine and Russia have reached an agreement on a new exchange of prisoners. Proposals from Trier and a meeting between the two heads of state were also mentioned. We take stock.

Hello everyone and welcome to this direct dedicated to war in Ukraine. The United States announced on Wednesday that it has approved a sale of arms to Ukraine notably aimed at strengthening its anti-aircraft defense for an amount of $ 322 million. New talks between kyiv and Moscow have allowed the two camps to agree solely on a new exchange of prisoners.