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Russia & the Warfront (1/2)
> Russian missiles struck Sumy’s power grid, plunging thousands into darkness and forcing emergency crews to reroute electricity from Poltava.
> Two kamikaze drones damaged passenger train 45 at Sumy station; staff swiftly evacuated travellers, and the service resumed after carriage repairs.
> A Molniya drone exploded beside a Kharkiv apartment block, wounding ten people including a five-month-old baby and two schoolboys, and shattering dozens of homes and cars.
> Moscow launched 72 Shahed-type drones overnight; Ukraine’s air defences shot down most, but the sheer volume strained stocks of interceptor missiles.
> The 31 July missile strike on Kyiv has risen to 31 dead and 159 injured, five of them children; President Zelensky demanded even harsher sanctions on Russian finance.
> Earlier casualty lists recorded 26 dead from the same attack before rescuers cleared 2 000 t of debris, illustrating how tolls grow as rubble is removed.
> In occupied Donetsk chronic pipe bursts left residents scooping muddy puddle water, spotlighting Russia’s failure to restore basic utilities.