Ukraine claimed to have stopped Russia's attacking efforts to northern Donetsk, but some areas in the province were shelled.

We are holding the opponent's feet at the boundary of Lungansk/Donetsk, the Governor of Lugansk Serhiy Gainai told Ukraine TV channels on July 6, the fierce fighting announcement happened when the Russian forces tried to enter Donetsk from Lugansk and

Gaidai Governor and other Ukrainian officials accused the Russian forces attacking the targets inside Donetsk with missiles.

Donetsk province is the main target of the Russian army in completing the Donbass liberation plan, after the force controlled Lugansk province over the weekend.

Fire firefighters at Sloviansk's central market on July 5.

Mayor Sloviansk on July 6 warned that Russia was likely to try to conduct an attack on the city and destroy the infrastructure here.

The British Ministry of Defense on the same day said the city of Sloviansk would be the next key battlefield in the battle to win Donbass, when the Russian troops were close to the area.

British intelligence said that while expanding the attack to Sloviansk, the Russian army will continue to consolidate control capacity in Lysychansk and Lugansk provinces.

The battlefield of the east and southern Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense on July 6 announced that the country's armed forces destroyed two Himars high mobile jet systems provided by the US at the Eastern Ukraine Front.

However, the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces quickly rejected Moscow's information, confirming that Himars still used to blow into the Russian forces.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously called for the West to provide a more modern defense complex, when the country's current air defense net did not block Russia's ambush.

Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on July 5, saying that the country had attacked many Ukrainian targets with high precision weapons, including a mercenary base in the Southern Mykolaiv province.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu previously said the Russian forces have destroyed 170 mercenaries and employees of private military companies, adding that 99 foreign citizens refused to fight and leave Ukraine.

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On the diplomatic front, Western countries are constantly putting pressure on Russia on military campaigns in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Martin, meanwhile, confirmed that Ireland would stand side by side with Ukraine on every journey.

The United Nations defines genocide crime as actions taken with the purpose of destroying part or the whole nation, ethnicity, race or religious group.

Western officials said that Russian forces were better working together than the beginning of war.

The UN refugee agency on July 6 announced that 8,793 million people had left Ukraine since February 24.

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) recorded more than 4,800 ordinary people and 6,200 injured after more than 4 months of war in Ukraine.

Under the Russian artillery fire in the Eastern battlefield, the only option of Ukrainian soldiers is to be dormant under the trenches, waiting and praying.

Ukraine now has to protect Donetsk in a key battle to prevent Russia from completing the goal of liberating Donbass, but the mission is not easy.