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On July 1, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1911, Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012) was born. In 1911, Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. In 1915, Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. In 1916, Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985) was born. In 1917, World War I: Russia launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war. In 1919, Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (died 2021) was born. In 1942, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (died 2020) was born. In 1942, World War II: First Battle of El Alamein. In 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes. In 2014, Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.

Ukraine’s new civilian battlefield: Surviving FPV drone attacks

Washington Examiner

July 1, 2026

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Ukraine’s new civilian battlefield: Surviving FPV drone attacks

Russian FPV drones, once used primarily against military targets, are increasingly becoming a weapon of terrorism against civilians. In front-line Kharkiv, residents are being forced to learn entirely new rules of survival as inexpensive battlefield drones reach residential neighborhoods, roads, buses, and private vehicles. Russia is now attacking Kharkiv in a new way, and the []

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