A grenade was found on one of Lviv’s streets — a trolleybus driver spotted it and evacuated the passengers

This morning, in the centre of the town of Rylsk, in the Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation, a car carrying local administration staff was blown up by a landmine.

In the Mykolaiv region, a car in which a man with special protection status was being taken to a court hearing was involved in a road traffic accident. He and a police officer from the Kherson region were killed; other law enforcement officers were also injured.

The Russian Embassy in Sweden reported that, on the night of 2 July, it was ‘attacked’ by two quadcopters. One of them dropped a container of red paint onto the embassy grounds, whilst the other, with a mock-up of a homemade explosive device attached, crashed near the embassy building.

In Venezuela, following two powerful earthquakes, the number of buildings that have been destroyed or seriously damaged may be as high as nearly 59,000. The death toll and number of injured continue to rise, whilst rescue operations are ongoing.

The death toll from the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on 24 June has risen to 1,719. The state of La Guaira has been hardest hit, where rescue operations are ongoing and temporary shelters have been set up.