Armed conflicts and attacks

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)

• https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-russia-strikes-kill-4-as-kyiv-holds-day-of-mourning/a-77813693

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian missile and drone strikes kill at least five people and wound ten others across Ukraine, including three people in Sumy when a drone struck their apartment building. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/3/four-killed-in-ukraine-a-day-after-deadliest-russian-attacks-this-year

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ukrainian forces strike nine substations across Russian-occupied Crimea causing power outages as part of a campaign to make the peninsula "unusable" for the Russian military. Saky air base and Gvardeyskoye air base are also targeted with seven jets destroyed or damaged. (The New Voice of Ukraine) (Al Arabiya)

• https://english.nv.ua/nation/madyar-strikes-again-48-targets-hit-in-occupied-crimea-50621489.html
• https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2026/07/03/ukraine-says-it-struck-two-russian-airbases-in-crimea

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)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/forty-killed-bus-falls-into-ditch-pakistans-balochistan-2026-07-03/

Disasters and accidents

Four people are killed, ten are missing and eight more 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. (Pajhwok)

• https://pajhwok.com/2026/07/03/4-killed-8-injured-in-laghman-road-accident/