This is the status on Sunday, July 21, 2024:

To fight

• Russian missile and artillery fire in northeastern Ukraine killed at least two people before dawn, law enforcement agencies said. The northeastern Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office said two men, aged 48 and 69, were killed and about 50 buildings damaged in the attack, which was apparently carried out with three Russian Iskander missiles.
• Separate artillery fire killed a 44-year-old man in the southern city of Nikopol, national police said.
• The death toll in a Russian attack on a playground in the southern city of Mykolaiv rose to four on Friday, including one child, and 24 people were injured, Mayor Oleksander Senkevitch said on the messaging app Telegram.
• Air defense systems destroyed 35 of the 39 attack drones launched by Russia overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram.

• Russia launched its fifth drone strike on Kiev in two weeks, destroying all of Ukraine’s air defense systems before they could reach the capital, the Ukrainian military said. No casualties or damage were reported, Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration, said on Telegram.

• Russian air defense systems destroyed eight Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Three of the drones were destroyed over the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, and three were intercepted in the Black Sea, the ministry said on Telegram.

Cyberspace

• Spanish police said they have arrested three people accused of taking part in cyberattacks by a pro-Russian group targeting public institutions and strategic sectors in Spain and other NATO countries. Two of the suspects were arrested in Huelva and Seville in southern Spain, while the third was held in the Balearic Islands, a statement from the Guardia Civil said. They were accused of “computer-related crimes with terrorist intent” over a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks, which render websites or network resources unavailable by flooding them with malicious traffic.