Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least seven people on Monday and wounded more than two dozen others, Ukrainian officials said.
Five people were killed in the central city of Dnipro, when a private business was hit by a Russian missile, while two were killed in an attack on a city bus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.
In Dnipro, 28 were wounded — four in a critical condition.
“People have traumatic brain injuries, shrapnel wounds, fractures, and blast trauma,” AFP quoted regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha as saying.
The police force posted photos showing paramedics tending to the wounded under the bright sun.
In Zaporizhzhia, the drone strike blew out the windows and back doors of a white minibus, photos published by the regional authorities showed.
Both Russia and Ukraine have escalated aerial attacks in recent months as stalled negotiations have made no progress in halting the four-year war.
Dnipro, an industrial city around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the front line, has been regularly targeted by Russia’s military.
Zaporizhzhia, 30 kilometers from the front, is the capital of a region which Moscow claims as its own and is fighting to capture.
The Balkans felt the impact on Monday of the record-breaking heatwave that has caused hundreds of excess deaths and disrupted daily life across the continent for more than a week, with growing concerns over the spread of wildfires, said Reuters.
There was also a warning that the heat was likely to build again from the start of next week in countries such as France and Germany that bore the brunt over the past few days.
In Croatia, the weather service issued a red alert on Monday for regions including the capital Zagreb and the tourist destinations of Split and Dubrovnik.
Dozens of firefighters, assisted by four aircraft, battled a wildfire burning pine forests on the tourist island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea, some 34 miles (55 km) southwest of Split.
In neighboring Serbia, the State Hydrometeorological Service (RHMZ) has warned temperatures would reach 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday.
Further south, Albania contained a wildfire that has consumed many hectares of bushes and olive trees near the southern village of Klos over the weekend.
Scientists have said the heatwave, which began on June 20, was the worst recorded in Europe, and the blistering conditions have disrupted power generation, damaged infrastructure and overwhelmed healthcare systems.
France has reported 1,000 excess deaths during the heatwave. The French public health agency said most of the heat-related fatalities involved older people and warned the number was expected to rise.
The heatwave would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, which has made this week’s soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, according to scientists.
HEAT TO RISE AGAIN FURTHER WEST
Luca Mercalli, the president of Italy’s Meteorological Society, said temperatures were set to soar again from July 5-6.
“The areas affected look broadly the same as in the first wave, including France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and to some extent Britain,” he told Reuters.
“With the extreme heat the risk of forest fires increases, but we are also seeing a lot of rainstorms, which obviously mitigates that risk,” he added, noting that storms were very localized so rainfall amounts could vary greatly.
Further tragedies related to the heat were reported at the weekend.
Two boys aged 8 and 10 from Bulgaria were found dead in a hot car in Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, police said. Cyprus is currently experiencing temperatures of around 38 C, which is not classified as a heatwave on the east Mediterranean island for the time of year.
Two cyclists, a 30-year-old and a 71-year-old, died while taking part in an event in the Poland Bike Marathon series in Marki near Warsaw on Sunday.
Temperatures in Poland reached a new record high on Sunday at 40.5 C.
The Democratic Republic of Congo said late on Sunday that confirmed Ebola cases in the country had reached 1,274, including 360 deaths.
US health authorities on Friday activated the highest level of response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo, while announcing the shipment of experimental treatments to the region.
“Our assessment (is) that the risk to the United States continues to remain low,” said Satish Pillai, who is leading the Ebola response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The leading US public health agency nevertheless announced a Level 1 response — the highest level — as it did for the worst-ever Ebola epidemic in 2014.
The heightened response level is an “internal cue” indicating that the outbreak is a top priority for the agency, a CDC official said.
“We will mobilize staffing and additional resources as efficiently and rapidly as possible,” he added.
The number of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has shot up since the launch of the US-Israeli offensive against Iran this year, a senior Israeli security official was quoted as saying on Monday.
Yossi Karadi, Director General of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, told German newspaper Die Welt that in June 2025 during Israeli military operations against Iran, Israel’s authorities registered around 1,600 hostile cyber incidents.
During the same month in 2026, the number had jumped to some 4,800 incidents, he told the paper.
“Some groups are very skilled,” Karadi said, according to the German text of the interview. “We can handle them, but we have to take them seriously. Unlike in the kinetic realm, there’s no ceasefire in cyberspace.”
Karadi said the attacks were directed against systems used by Israel’s critical infrastructure, central organizations, small to medium-sized companies and the public, citing law practices and accounting firms as among the smaller ones hit.
“So far — and hopefully it stays that way — we’ve managed to fend off attacks on critical infrastructure,” he said.
Companies that were easier to penetrate often ended up having their computer systems wiped, he said, without mentioning any names.
Iran typically denies carrying out hacking campaigns against other countries while reporting attacks on itself.
