Ukraine mourns Kyiv dead as Ali Khamenei's funeral begins in Tehran

Ukraine declared a day of mourning for victims of a Russian bombardment of Kyiv on July 2, with the death toll at 30. Further Russian missiles and drones killed at least five people and injured ten elsewhere, including three in Sumy when a drone hit their apartment building. Ukrainian forces struck nine substations in occupied Crimea, causing outages, and targeted Saky and Gvardeyskoye air bases, with seven jets destroyed or damaged.

Russia said its forces had captured Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Oblast. United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk issued a red-alert warning for El-Obeid in North Kordofan, speaking of catastrophe and violence in the city. Sudan's foreign minister Mohi El-Din Salem said the government was ready for sincere initiatives to end the war that started in April 2023, and that proposals from Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to the United Nations last year had to be part of the process.

The state funeral of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei began with his body lying in state at Tehran's Grand Mosalla. He was killed in an airstrike on his compound on the first day of the war, February 28. The funeral was expected to draw large crowds, including foreign dignitaries, before later stages in Iraq and Mashhad.

Armenia's parliament passed a law requiring citizens abroad to meet stricter residency rules before voting, after reports of Russian efforts to influence the June election through Armenians in Russia. Cambodia's palace said King Norodom Sihamoni had returned from Beijing after treatment and surgery for prostate cancer. Moldova's prime minister Alexandru Munteanu resigned.

Israel and Shin Bet said Hamas member Muhammad Na'im Jandiya, accused of taking hostages at Nahal Oz on October 7, was killed in a strike in northern Gaza, in violation of the ceasefire. Two policemen, including a station officer, were killed when gunmen fired on a patrol vehicle in Mohmand district in Pakistan. The funeral, the Kyiv toll, and these killings were separate items on one political day.

The Kyiv figure to use for that bombardment is 30 dead, the number given when mourning was declared. Kostyantynivka was reported captured by Russia. Khamenei's funeral had started in Tehran and had not yet reached its last stop.