Armed conflicts and attacks
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian missile and drone strikes kill at least five people and injure ten others across Ukraine, including three people in Sumy when a drone struck their apartment building. (Al Jazeera)
Ukraine declares a day of mourning for the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kyiv on July 2 as the death toll rises to 30. (DW)
Ukrainian forces strike nine substations across Russian-occupied Crimea causing power outages. Saky air base and Gvardeyskoye air base are also targeted with seven jets destroyed or damaged. (The New Voice of Ukraine) (Reuters)
Eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Russia reports that its forces have captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. (AFP via NDTV)
Sudanese civil war
Sudanese foreign minister Mohi El-Din Salem says that the Sudanese government is ready to engage in "sincere initiatives" aimed at ending the civil war that started in April 2023. He also says that initiatives submitted by Sovereign Council chairman and military head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to the United Nations last year must be a part of this process. (AA)
Kordofan campaign, Siege of El Obeid
United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk issues a "red alert" warning in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, of a "catastrophe" and violence in the city. (ABC News) (ModernGhana)
Gaza war
The Israeli military and Shin Bet state that Hamas militant Muhammad Na'im Jandiya, who allegedly took part in taking hostages during the attack on the Nahal Oz kibbutz in the October 7 attacks on Israel, has been killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the ongoing ceasefire. (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynetnews)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Two policemen, including an additional station house officer, are killed, while a driver is injured, as gunmen open fire on a mobile patrol vehicle in Mohmand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Dawn)
Disasters and accidents
In Pakistan, a bus en route from Quetta to Islamabad plunges into a deep roadside ditch in Sherani District, Balochistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others. (Reuters)
Four people are killed, ten are missing and eight others are injured during the collision of a car with a bus, carrying Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, on the Kabul–Nangarhar highway in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. (Caliber.az) (Pajhwok)