Top news for July 4

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Top news for July 3 ✹ Putin’s rating is falling again. But now at the fastest pace of the entire war. ✹ The Russian Defense Ministry proposed abolishing mandatory medical exams for contract soldiers and the mobilized. ✹ In Novorossiysk, every gas station ran out of gasoline for several hours…

Top news for July 4

✹ Nearly 400 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia overnight. Over Moscow in 24 hours — 200. In St. Petersburg, there was a fire at an oil terminal.

✹ Zelensky called the Russian claims of the complete capture of Kostiantynivka a “lie.” And he proposed that Putin meet him in that city.

✹ In St. Petersburg, police carried out a raid on Cabaret over suspicions of “LGBT propaganda.” The club was stormed.

✹ Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married in New York. Police cordoned off four blocks near Madison Square Garden, where the wedding was held. Crowds of fans poured into the streets despite the 42-degree heat. Here’s what it looked like.

✹ Text of the day. Russia and Ukraine spent 10 years litigating in The Hague over their rights to the waters around Crimea. In the end, the court issued a ruling that Moscow called “the collapse of efforts to challenge Russia’s sovereignty over the peninsula.” Is that really true?

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