according to a separatist official, the Russian armed forces have entered the city of Siversk, in the Donetsk region

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Cover image: A woman on a bicycle passes by a Russian missile planted in a road, near Siversk, in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, July 8, 2022. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP

• According to Russian state news agency TASS, quoting Vitaly Kiselyov, an official of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, Russian and separatist forces entered Siversk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. According to him, the city could fall in a few days, without it being possible to verify these assertions for the time being.
• The regional governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reports this Thursday morning “one dead and five injured” in Bakhmoutafter, according to him, a Russian bombardment on this area of ​​​​eastern Ukraine.
• The death toll from the Russian shelling of an apartment building in Chassiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday has risen to at least 48 dead, including a childVolodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday night, calling the strike one of the most “brutals of the whole war”.
• Russia and Ukraine made progress on Wednesday during a meeting of military experts in Istanbul on the thorny issue of blocking grain exports from Ukrainian ports, with Turkey announcing further talks on the subject next week.
• North Korea has officially recognized the two pro-Russian breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent countries, North Korean state media reported Thursday morning. kyiv has announced that it is severing diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday ruled out ceding territories to Russia as part of a possible peace agreement, while specifying that no peace negotiations were underway between Moscow and kyiv.

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