German foreign ministry summons China’s ambassador and says anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression represents a ‘threat’ to Germany’s security.
Ukraine update
July 6, 2026
The Chinese ambassador in Berlin has been summoned for urgent talks about media reports that Russian soldiers were being trained in China, the German foreign ministry said on Friday. These “deeply disturbing” reports point to support for Russia from Chinese state actors, in particular the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, it said. “Anything that enables Russia to continue its war of aggression against Ukraine also represents a threat to our security,” the ministry said. On 20 May, the German daily Die Welt reported that the Chinese army had secretly trained several hundred Russian soldiers on its territory, some of whom had been deployed in Ukraine, citing classified documents from European intelligence services.
Ukraine is looking for ways to lower tension with Warsaw, Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, adding that Poland’s neighbour to the east should come to terms with its history in order to join the European Union. Diplomatic relations between the two countries deteriorated after Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland’s top honour because Zelenskyy had named an army unit after insurgents who massacred Poles in the second world war. Tusk, a political opponent of Nawrocki, has been trying to smooth tensions, and said he had received positive signals from Friday’s meeting between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski in Warsaw. There are proposals for consultations between historians and talks between religious leaders from both nations, Tusk said.
The World Athletics Council on Friday reaffirmed its decision to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competition, four years after it initially imposed sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. World Athletics voted to end its eight-year doping ban of the Russian Athletics Federation in 2023 but the separate ban over the invasion of Ukraine kept out their athletes. “We presented options for the Council to consider on this matter, however the original decision remains on the sanctions that protect the integrity and fairness of our competitions, with no tangible movement towards peace negotiations having materialised,” World Athletics President Seb Coe said in a statement.
July 6, 2026
Russia launches deadly attacks on Kyiv on eve of Nato summit
At least nine killed in the Ukraine capital in the second major assault on the city and its surrounds in less than a week
Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv early on Monday, killing at least nine people and heavily damaging apartment blocks and other buildings, officials said, just a few days after the deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital this year.
“Nine deaths and 46 wounded have now been confirmed as a result of the Russian attack (including five wounded children),” Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv region’s military administration, said. “Sadly, this is not the final toll. Rescue operations are still ongoing.”
Another person was killed in the Bucha district northwest of the capital, authorities said.
The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed it conducted a “massive” attack on Kyiv and other locations using long-range weapons and drones.
In a Telegram post on Monday, the ministry claimed it had hit military and energy facilities in Kyiv and its surrounds, as well as military airfields in several other Ukrainian regions.
Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings shattered by the overnight barrage.
At least 15 residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the attack, including a nine-storey block in the historic Podilskyi district, emergency services said.
Rescuers used a ladder truck to get to people trapped on the upper floors of that building, which had been largely destroyed, they said.
Rescuers were also looking for residents in a 21-storey residential block in the district. Tkachenko said four residential buildings had been struck in the Podilskyi district alone.
The new attack came days after at least 27 people were killed in a Russian attack on the capital in the early hours of Thursday – the deadliest strike on the city this year – and as both sides increase long-range attacks.
US president Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy are expected to discuss the war on the sidelines of a Nato summit in the Turkish capital Ankara, which begins Tuesday.
In Russian-annexed Crimea, its governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said a Ukrainian strike near Sevastopol had temporarily cut electricity supplies.
“Following an enemy attack on energy infrastructure near Sevastopol, our city was temporarily left without electricity,” Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine has increasingly targeted energy facilities inside Russia and, in particular, Moscow-controlled territory in recent weeks in an effort to weaken the Kremlin’s war effort.
Zelenskyy said on Sunday that troops were continuing to fight for the strategic eastern town of Kostyantynivka, a gateway to key Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region.
Moscow said Friday it had taken the outpost, but Kyiv dismissed the announcement as a “lie”, saying that it was defending the town.
“Fighting is also continuing for Kostyantynivka, which (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin has already claimed as his own, but it is obvious that he will never dare to appear there,” Zelenskyy said in his daily evening address.
With Reuters and Agence France-Presse
“The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed it conducted a “massive” attack on Kyiv and other locations using long-range weapons and drones.
In a Telegram post on Monday, the ministry claimed it had hit military and energy facilities in Kyiv and its surrounds, as well as military airfields in several other Ukrainian regions.”
Who buys this fucking shit?
It’s genocide, committed by putinaZis, who are more evil and demonic than the last lot of nazis.
“On 20 May, the German daily Die Welt reported that the Chinese army had secretly trained several hundred Russian soldiers on its territory, some of whom had been deployed in Ukraine, citing classified documents from European intelligence services.”
This has been known for some time.
The chicoms are hateful, sly fascists like putler. They have not been punished in any way for enabling putler’s genocide.
A comment from Chris O on his Reddit page :
“Nikolai Patrushev, a key adviser to Vladimir Putin, says that Russia is fighting a pan-European neo-Nazi alliance, and advocates Russian naval action in the English Channel. He warns the Baltic states of “the end of … peaceful, carefree life and sovereignty.”
Patrushev says that Russia is fighting a pan-European neo-Nazi alliance, and advocates Russian naval action in the English Channel.”
The sheer gall of these fucking Nazis is just breathtaking.
Donald Lerma, from Ukraine News, Slava Ukraini! :-
I don’t think it’s possible but he said it. A puppet of Vladimir Putin has launched into an insane rant and claimed entire cities ‘must be razed to the ground’. 😳
Vladimir Solovyov was ranting on his flagship state television programme, demanding total destruction in Ukraine.
He told viewers that major cities like Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv must be flattened.
The explosive comments aired on The Evening with Vladimir Solovyov, alongside a panel of Russian academics and politicians.
One of his guests, Henry Sardaryan, complained that Russia is becoming a “laughing stock” on the world stage.
He told the studio that it is time for Moscow to “show willpower” against neighbouring countries.
This type of extreme rhetoric has become standard programming on Russian television.
Hardline pundits regularly demand the total annihilation of Ukrainian territory to avenge Moscow’s struggling invasion.
Western governments and Ukrainian officials continue to point to broadcasts like this as clear evidence of genocidal intent.
Solovyov himself has previously called for entire cities to be wiped “off the face of the earth”.
Henry Sardaryan, an academic on the panel, said the situation stems from “a whole group of cretins in these countries” who are convinced that Russia has big problems.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2224393/putin-puppet-says-entire-cities-razed-ground-ukraine-russia
Reminder : Solovyov has the same job as dead nazi Zhirinovsky : to express publicly the shit that putler utters in private.
Otherwise his job would not exist.
From DT comments:
Tim Gower
Trump aka Agent Krasnov a Russian Asset, Putin appeaser and sympathiser is incapable of bringing peace to conflicts, just, escalate situations.
Trump has criticised Zelensky and Ukraine whilst happily meeting the tyrannical despot Putin in Alaska.
Trump’s ‘so called’ peace envoys are utterly incompetent and useless.
Europe and NATO must stand strong to defeat Putin and his Generals who commit war crimes daily, bombing civilians.
Ian Carmichael
Russia won’t stop. Trump’s pals in Moscow know he won’t help Kiev.
It’s a disgrace but typical of the US relations with Europe.
Nicholas Hilliard
These strikes are an act of desperation. Hitting residential building – zero impact on military operation.
In the next 48 hours there will almost certainty be more strikes on key Russian infrastructure supporting the Russian army, which will have a real effect.
David Jones
Putin is a war criminal. He has killed children, women and innocent men. He should not be allowed to win.
Erik Evans
Murdering civilians, leveling cities, and stealing from their neighbors — Russians don’t have a civilisation; they have a rap sheet.
J Finnemore
Mr. Trump telling Sean Hannity on Fox News that he would end the war in 24 hours:
As with so much of Mr. Trump’s campaigning reality has turned out differently.
Donald J. Trump: “I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars”:
Two campaign commitments long since abandoned.
In office Mr. Trump has repeatedly rolled out the red carpet for Mr. Putin, whilst shouting down Mr. Zelensky in the Oval Office.
Roll on the mid-terms.