Kyiv time on July 5, a total of 170 combat engagements had been recorded on the front lines since the beginning of the day. Nearly a third of them occurred in the Pokrovsk direction, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight in the largest aerial assault since the war began. The capital Kyiv was the primary target.

Russia overnight hit Ukraine with the biggest missile and drone attack of the war, launching a record number of drones at Kyiv, hours after President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin to urge him to end the conflict.