🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russia's Defence Ministry releases its full July 6 operational update, Russian MoD reports.

Tsentr Group (Donetsk)
Losses inflicted on a mechanised brigade, jaeger brigade, assault brigade, assault regiment, two marine brigades, and three national guard brigades near Dobropolye, Annovka, Shilovka, Novofedorovka, Svetloye, and Sergeyevka.
Losses: up to 310 troops, two AFVs, four motor vehicles, and five EW stations.

Vostok Group (Dnepropetrovsk & Zaporozhye)
Continued advance into enemy defences; strikes on an assault brigade, three air assault brigades, one unmanned systems brigade, three assault regiments, and one marine brigade near Kolomiytsy, Pokrovskoye, Velikomikhaylovka, and Chervonaya Krinitsa.
Losses: 455+ troops, five AFVs, nine motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.

Dnepr Group (Zaporozhye)
Fire damage inflicted on a mechanised brigade and a UAV brigade near Orekhov, Razumovka, and Kushugum.
Losses: up to 55 troops, eight motor vehicles, and three EW stations.

Air & Missile Activity
Aviation, drones, and artillery struck Ukrainian troop deployment areas and foreign mercenary positions across 153 locations. Air defence intercepted nine guided aerial bombs and 811 UAVs.

Cumulative Russian MoD totals (as of July 6)
673 aircraft, 284 helicopters, 175,506 UAVs, 664 air defence systems, 30,048 tanks and AFVs, 1,754 MLRS vehicles, 35,666 artillery guns and mortars, 65,761 support vehicles.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — NEW: Hamas dissolves its de facto Gaza government in a move toward transferring authority to a US-backed technocrat committee, Reuters reports.

➡️ Hamas announced the dissolution of its Government Emergency Committee, which has overseen Gaza's ministries for over a decade, as part of the Trump-backed post-conflict governance plan.

➡️ Despite the dissolution, Hamas confirmed ministries and their staff will remain operational, and the group will retain control of security and policing in areas it still controls.

➡️ The Trump-appointed Board of Peace acknowledged the move but stated its assessment would be guided by "actions, not promises."

➡️ The US-backed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, led by Ali Shaath, said its 15-member body is ready to assume responsibility once "necessary resources and enabling conditions" are in place.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Ukrainian Mi-8, along with its entire crew of 4 people, was lost in the Poltava region during a mission to repel an attack by drone kamikazes "Geran-2".

The exact cause of the loss of the aircraft was not specified.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russia carried out a massive long-range strike on Kiev, the Kiev region, and military airfield infrastructure across Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, Chernigov, and Kiev regions, targeting military-industrial enterprises, fuel and energy facilities, and airfields — Russian Ministry of Defense report.

➡️ On the night of July 5–6, the Kiev regime launched 625 long-range strike drones against targets outside the special military operation zone; 613 were shot down over Russian territory.

➡️ Russian Aerospace Forces struck UAV control posts and temporary deployment areas with aerial bombs; FPV drone operators disrupted Ukrainian logistics and destroyed manpower across the front.

➡️ Geran UAVs struck a fuel depot supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

➡️ Vostok Group of Forces servicemen shared details on the liberation of Lesnoye in Zaporozhye region.

➡️ The Maritime Interaction 2026 joint Russian-Chinese naval exercise opened at Qingdao port, China.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian strike sets a Nova Poshta branch ablaze in Novomoskovsk (Samara), Dnepropetrovsk region.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — A Nova Poshta branch in Novomoskovsk (Samara), Dnepropetrovsk region, continues to burn following an earlier Russian strike.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — NOW: Ukraine strikes Belgorod again, with explosions reported and smoke rising over several districts following attacks on the TV tower and other facilities.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukraine strikes Belgorod's main gas pipeline.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — NOW: A gas pipeline is burning in Belgorod, Russia, following a Ukrainian strike.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian HIMARS GMLRS rockets struck the Belgorod Linear Production Department of Main Gas Pipelines earlier tonight.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Over 430 drones were flying towards the Moscow region from the evening until 6:00 am.

Most of them were destroyed at long-range positions, and 36 UAVs were eliminated on their approach to Moscow.

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