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512th day of the special operation. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced the death of a teenage girl as a result of a drone strike in one of the settlements. At night, the Ukrainian media reported on explosions in Odessa, Chornomorsk, Sumy, Nikolaev and the Nikolaev region.
The Washington Post, citing Ukrainian sources, writes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to use cluster munitions transferred by the United States. The publication claims that such shells are being used in the southeast.
The Pentagon has announced a $1.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine.
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CIA chief Burns said slow pace UAF counteroffensives were expected.
American Conservative: Ukrainian authorities can talk about victory as long as the country remains on the map.
Former Judge Napolitano explained the Ukrainian conflict by the US desire to change power in Russia
CIA Head Burns: Washington does not see Moscow preparing to use nuclear weapons.
The US Senate rejected an amendment to the draft defense budget for fiscal year 2024, which established a limit on military assistance to the authorities of Ukraine.
RIA Novosti reports the resumption in the LPR of issuing passports to residents of front-line settlements, including liberated Svatovo.
The representative office of the DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk using 10 shells of the «NATO» caliber of 155 millimeters.
Coordinator of the National Security Council of the White House Kirby: the United States will monitor Russia's actions in the Black Sea.
Advisor to the head of Crimea on information policy Kryuchkov urged citizens not to shoot video from the Crimean bridge in order to avoid information getting into hands of the Ukrainian side.
RV military correspondents spoke about the offensive of the Russian army on Kupyansk
Minister of Culture of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko announced that he had resigned.
The LPR reported the return of 11 fighters from Ukrainian captivity
The Strana.ua agency again reports explosions in Kherson.
The operational headquarters reported the restoration of traffic on the Crimean bridge.
Operational headquarters of the republic Crimea: The Crimean bridge is temporarily closed, an air raid signal sounds.
The alarm is already all over Ukraine, the country's Air Force is reporting the takeoff of the Russian MiG-31K PKS RF fighter from the Savasleyka airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Also, according to the Ministry of Digital Affairs of Ukraine, an air raid alert is sounding in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
The Ukrainian agency Strana.ua reports that an air alert has been declared in Kiev again.
Deliveries of F-16 to Ukraine may begin before the end of the year, but they are unlikely to change the course of the conflict, the White House said.
Politico: instead of new deliveries, the US will focus on repairing equipment already transferred to the Armed Forces.
Solidarity Bank, following Tinkoff Bank, advised clients abroad to withdraw cash.
A drone fell on the veranda of a kindergarten in New Moscow
, confirmed White House strategic communications coordinator John Kirby. US President Joe Biden announced on July 7 his decision to begin deliveries of cluster munitions to the Kyiv regime. They are not provided with self-destruction devices. According to the US military, from 5% to 14% of them may not burst at all, as they have been in warehouses for a long time. In this case, they will be mines that threaten the civilian population even after the end of the conflict.
US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers conducted a training flight in the sky over Estonia, accompanied by British, French and Romanian air force fighters — the press service of the main headquarters of the Estonian Defense Forces.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that Russia is not preparing any provocations against civilian ships in the Black Sea. This is how he commented on the statements of the White House, which reported that there was information about Moscow allegedly having such plans. According to the diplomat, it is, on the contrary, that Kyiv arranges «terrorist sorties», while Washington «continues to turn a blind eye».
The President of the Russian Federation . The center is located in the village of Belokamenka and is engaged in the construction of gas liquefaction lines for the second large-capacity project of Novatek, Arctic LNG 2.
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High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell came up with an initiative to create a special mechanism for the supply of military assistance to Ukraine. According to this proposal, the Kiev regime can receive such assistance in the amount of 5 billion euros annually until 2027.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled two settlements in the Shebekinsky district, damaged households and electricity and gas supplies in one of the villages — Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Ukraine on July 21, where it will discuss the termination of the grain deal, the British Permanent Mission reported. They will also discuss the termination of the grain deal and Russia's withdrawal from it.
Kyiv is ready to take any risk to export Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said in an interview with Time. Ukraine, he said, is ready to resume «grain exports, despite Russia's naval blockade of the Black Sea.»
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The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, reported on the shelling of the village of Tetkino: «7 arrivals were recorded.» As a result of the shelling, a fire started in three residential buildings and adjacent outbuildings. The fragments also damaged the facades, windows and roofs of houses, and the water tower was damaged. Information about the victims has not been received at this moment.
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Prosecutor of the Luhansk People's Republic Gleb Mikhailov was awarded the Order of Courage by decree of the President of the Russian Federation for selflessness shown in conditions of risk to life.
The Ukrainian army is suffering defeats at the front due to the inability to conduct complex and large-scale combined arms operations, and not as a result of insufficient assistance from the Western military-political bloc NATO, which Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny complains about, writes Business Insider. Without integrated combined arms combat, the advancing Ukrainian forces become vulnerable to Russian anti-tank missile systems, artillery and other weapons.
General Sobolev: Rheinmetall plant in Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that from midnight on July 21, it will consider all ships in the Black Sea and going to Russian ports as carrying military cargo «with all the associated risks.» The department said that shipping in the northeastern part of the sea and in the Kerch-Yenikal Strait is prohibited from July 20 as dangerous.
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The head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that on Thursday, an air defense system was triggered by an UAV in the central part of Crimea. Enemy drone shot down.
The Washington Post, citing Ukrainian sources, writes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun using cluster munitions transferred by the United States. A July 20 publication claims that such shells are being used in the southeast «to break through heavily fortified Russian positions.»
Russian Defense Ministry: Russian army continued to strike retaliation against Ilyichevsk and Odessa.
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of well-coordinated and active actions of units of the «Southern» group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, 16 enemy attacks were successfully repelled in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Pervomayskoye, Veseloye, Krasnogorovka, Marinka and to the north of Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People's Republic — the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
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Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot shoot down Russian Onyx missiles, the speaker of the Air Force admitted Ukraine Yuriy Ignat.
The owner of the tanker Beks Loyal denied the involvement of the vessel in the attack on the Crimean bridge. «At the time of the incident, our vessel was at least a hundred miles from the place of emergency. We have data from the MarineTraffic international tracking system,» said Efe Tunaly, director of the operations department of the organization that owns Beks Loyal.
The Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the village of Smorodino in the Graivoron urban district. There were no casualties. In three private households, windows were broken, facades and roofs were cut. Shell fragments damaged gas and electricity lines, as well as one of the premises of the agricultural enterprise.
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The singer SHAMAN presented a new video filmed in the SVO zone.
Russian personnel left Istanbul Joint Coordination Center amid Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative — TRT channel, citing Turkish Defense Ministry sources.
The Ukrainian edition of Zerkalo Nedeli reports that explosions occurred in the Sumy region, located in the north-east of Ukraine. Data from the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation indicate that an air raid alert was announced in the region at 12:04.
Pavel Krasheninnikov, head of the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation, said that the lower house of parliament could adopt amendments to the legislation on military service by the end of July, including an increase in . «I think that we will (put the bill for consideration) for that week,» Krasheninnikov said. «Maybe we'll even split the second and third (readings).»
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Acting head of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction had stopped their offensive attempts. He clarified that at the moment the situation in this area has stabilized. At the same time, on the Vremevsky and Pologovsky sectors of the front, the Ukrainian military does not attempt to attack the positions of Russian military personnel.
Tankers Beks Loyal and Khudayar Yusifzade, which could be used in the attack on the Crimean bridge, are located in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, according to data published on the Marine Traffic website. Thus, the Beks Loyal tanker is in the roadstead near the port of Constanta in Romania, and Khudayar Yusifzade is moored in the port of the Greek city of Elefsis.
Voenkor Sladkov: the Russian army has established a process for recruiting volunteers
The Crimean emergency services spoke about the consequences of a drone attack.
Volodymyr Rogov said that in the Orekhovsky section of the front line near the village of Rabotino, the Russian military managed to stop a large-scale offensive by Ukrainian troops. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine used armored vehicles to carry out the attack, but were stopped by massive oncoming fire. The Russian military used artillery and aircraft, which helped push the enemy back into the forest plantations,” he added.
“The enemy’s mosquito tactics underlying his creeping offensive, despite all our difficulties, do not bring him much success — in general, the line of contact remains static,” Alexander Khodakovsky, deputy head of the National Guard in the DPR.
An emergency mode was introduced in the village of Razdolnoye in Crimea after a drone attack. Four administrative buildings were reportedly damaged in the village.
A girl who was injured in a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge on July 17 was taken to a Moscow hospital. “During the evacuation, the child’s condition was stable,” the doctors said. They hope for a speedy recovery of the girl.
The details of the death of a girl during a drone attack on the Crimea became known. A 14-year-old Crimean woman met the dawn with her friend and was talking on the phone with her parents when the drone got into the building of a store in Razdolny. The child was taken to the hospital at about five in the morning without consciousness, breathing and cardiac activity. It was not possible to save her.
Retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko said that the Russian military in the Kharkiv region are entrenched in positions recaptured from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the moment, Russian military personnel are creating a foothold for further advancement.
Ukraine is planning an operation to seize the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant by the end of July. This was stated by the head of the public movement «We are together with Russia» Vladimir Rogov. According to him, the Ukrainian military want to commit a provocation to force the Dnieper in order to capture the ZNPP at the end of the month. This time is recognized as the most favorable for movement along the shallowed Kakhovka reservoir.
Rogov specified that the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will send an assault group in light armored vehicles across the Dnieper to the Zaporizhzhya NPP.