Kiev is developing cooperation with Baku, Ukraine has offered Azerbaijan its underground gas storage facilities (UGS) for use. This was announced today, July 13, by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko.

Russia's Defense Ministry reported Thursday that its forces had struck Ukrainian military airfields and facilities, while Ukraine said that Russia launched a new round of air strikes on Kiev and other places.

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier,

The format of the Istanbul talks with Russia has almost exhausted itself. This was stated in an interview with The Kyiv Independent by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Kyslytsa.

The Kremlin expresses readiness for peaceful negotiations over the Ukraine conflict, pending a response from Kiev. Previous talks have stalled, with US involvement and international military aid influencing dynamics.

Russia has launched a scathing attack on UN Secretary-General António Guterres, accusing him of political bias and acting as a mouthpiece for NATO and the “criminal Kyiv regime.” Moscow condemned Guterres' recent comments on alleged Russian missile and drone strikes that supposedly caused a power outage at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.

A damaged residential building is pictured at the site of an air strike in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kiev, Ukraine, July 10, 2025. Russia's overnight strike on Kiev on Thursday killed at least two people and injured 16 others,

In addition, the network publishes videos of the consequences of the Russian attack on Kiev, which show a damaged shopping center in the Shevchenkivsky district of the city. The Kiev Regional Military Administration noted that the massive overnight enemy attack on Kievshchyna lasted almost 10 hours.

The United States’ move to resume weapons supplies to Ukraine will not help resolve the conflict diplomatically, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a press briefing.

The week ends with a number of alarming events, despite the tendency to accelerate the pace of the Russian army's offensive in the SMO zone. One of them, of course, can be considered the ongoing attacks of the enemy's kamikaze "Fierce" and "Morok" UAVs on the infrastructure of numerous enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.

Colonel Ivan Voronich of Ukraine's Security Service, who was shot dead in Kiev on July 10, was the head of a unit that played a key role in an offensive in Russia's Kursk region in the summer of 2024. According to New York Times.