Wednesday, July 5th, the 496th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko reported an explosion in front of a court in Kiev for the first time late in the evening. A man reportedly set off a device he had brought to the hearing. He then attacked the guards and died in a second explosion. “There is an emergency situation at the Shevchenkivskyi Court in Kyiv. “Investigative teams, special forces, explosives experts and other necessary services are on site,” the minister said. Two people were also reportedly injured.
“I warned Emmanuel Macron that the occupying forces are preparing dangerous provocations at the Zaporizhia power plant,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement after a phone call with the French president. At the same time, on Tuesday night, the Ukrainian army claimed it had attacked a Russian “formation” in Makiivka, an occupied town in eastern Ukraine, where Russian media reported one civilian dead and 36 wounded in an attack led by Kiev.
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