The number includes 1,300 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
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At least 19 children were killed and 78 injured in April, the highest verified monthly number of child casualties since June 2022.
The agreement, signed on April 30, establishes a joint investment fund between Kyiv and Washington and grants the U.S. special access to projects developing Ukraine's natural resources.
Three women in Kharkiv, believing the truce was in effect, were injured by a Russian drone while gardening.
Russian forces struck the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant with a drone on Feb. 14, breaking through the confinement and creating a 15-meter hole in it.
The denunciation of the convention will take effect six months after the decision is made.
Xi Jinping is one of 27 leaders expected to attend the Victory Day parade in the Russian capital on May 9.
Some 2020 medical facilities were partially damaged, while another 305 were completely destroyed, the ministry's statement read.
The number includes 1,200 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"Everyone in Moscow must know that they have to reckon with us. Europe will support Ukraine," German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said.
Ukraine is considering moving away from the U.S. dollar and closer to the euro as a benchmark for the hryvnia, National Bank Governor Andrii Pyshnyi told Reuters.
The Atesh partisan group claims it disabled communication at several Russian military facilities when it allegedly destroyed equipment at a transformer substation in the village of Mogiltsy in Russia's Moscow Oblast.
Representatives of Russia's Wagner mercenary group have not yet visited the military camp near the town of Asipovichy in Belarus, Leonid Kasinsky, an advisor to the country's defense minister, said on July 7, as cited by Russian state news agency TASS.
"They will look at (the camp) when Wagner makes a final decision on whether to deploy to Belarus," he said.
Minsk allowed foreign media to access the camp amid reports that the new facility, lying 200 kilometers from Ukraine's border, is meant to house Wagner mercenaries.
According to CNN, the camp can house up to 5,000 people but remains mostly empty at the moment.
"We prepared this camp for the training of territorial defense and militia," Kasinsky told CNN.
The Wagner Group and its founders were set to leave for Belarus after its short-lived rebellion against the Kremlin on June 23-24.
Soon after that, media reports suggested that a new camp for Wagner was being built near Asipovichy in Mahilyow Oblast. The construction of the camp was later confirmed by satellite imagery.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claimed on June 27 that Prigozhin had indeed arrived in the country, but he said on July 6 that the mercenary boss had returned back to Russia.
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