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516th day of the special operation. Today, at about 4 a.m., drone strikes on two non-residential buildings were recorded in Moscow. A Ukrainian drone crashed on a business center under construction on Likhachev Avenue. The second drone fell on a building on Komsomolsky Prospekt.
In the sky over the Crimea, 11 enemy UAVs were shot down by air defense forces and suppressed by electronic warfare. There was a hit in an ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy district — people from villages within a radius of 5 km from the state of emergency in the Dzhankoy district were evacuated. Also, UAV debris damaged a private house in the Kirovsky district.
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Zelensky called on the countries of Eastern Europe to lift the ban on the transportation of Ukrainian grain by land — restrictions were introduced in May until September 15 in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. The authorities of these countries, taking the appropriate decision, sought to protect their markets from being filled with cheaper Ukrainian grain.
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An air raid alert has been announced in the Poltava, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, as evidenced by the online map data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation. According to the online map, the alarm sounded in these regions at the same time — at 20.01 Moscow time.
Speaker of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Alexander Belsky confirmed the information about the death of Colonel Yevgeny Vashutnin, who commanded the «Leningrad Regiment» in the NVO zone.
A draft decree for each has been prepared. Assistance will be provided to the families of children who have been injured or wounded since February 24, 2022, living in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as in the subjects adjacent to the NWO area: Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Oryol regions, as well as in the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Crimea.
Four civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, said. During the day, 9 residential buildings were damaged in the Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of the capital, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, 7 civilian infrastructure facilities, including a hospital and a kindergarten in Makeevka. Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops have carried out 37 attacks on the territory of the DPR, firing 148 ammunition.
US citizen Dylan Collins, a video journalist of Agence France-Presse, was injured in a drone attack near Artemovsk in the DPR, the agency reports. Whose drone carried out the attack is not specified. Collins received multiple shrapnel wounds and was evacuated to the nearest hospital.
The Foreign Ministry declared Russia's right to take tough measures after the drone attack.
Deputy Head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev commented on the change of the Twitter logo, linking it with the symbols of the special operation. Earlier, Elon Musk introduced a stylized X as a new service symbol. , — Medvedev wrote in his English-language account.
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Deputy Gurulev spoke about the gunners of Ukrainian drones in Moscow and Crimea.
The mayor of Donetsk Kulemzin reported that the driver of a fixed-route taxi was wounded during the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The victim was admitted to the hospital. Vishnevsky.
On July 25, the State Duma in the second and third readings will consider a bill on raising the military age to 30 years, said the head of the State Duma Defense Committee, Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov.
Ukrainians began to buy death certificates, fearing being drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Traffic on the Crimean bridge has been restored.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian military were able to repel six attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov. The attacks were repulsed in the areas of Belogorovka in the LPR and Klescheevka in the DPR. The Russian army also managed to defeat the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Vesele, Bogdanovka, Predtechino, Belaya Gora, Dyleevka, Yampolovka, Torsky and Serebryanka in the DPR, as well as Karmazinovka in the LPR.
Traffic on the Crimean bridge is temporarily blocked.
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The volume of monthly production of means of destruction by Russian defense industrial enterprises per month exceeded the production volumes for the entire 2022, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. Thus, the production of ammunition in Russia has increased by more than 12 times.
The Ministry of Defense: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zmievka in the Kherson region.
Moscow Deptrans: traffic along Komsomolsky Prospekt was completely restored.
Ministry of Defense: in the area of the settlement of Dzerzhinsk (DPR), a communications center of the 24th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit. In the areas of n.p. Nuts and a small tokmachka (Zaporizhzhya region) are amazed: the control point of the 65th mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces and the fuel warehouse for military equipment of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
are called the settlements of Zaporozhye, which are dangerous to visit along the way to the Crimea, Energodar, Vasilyevka, Mikhamasza, Kuybyshevo, and Tokmak «. P>
Ukrayinska Pravda: the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is behind the night drone attack on Moscow.
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Peskov: this was confirmed by traces of explosives on the cargo ship. Earlier, the FSB informed: traces of explosives were found on a ship sailing from Turkey to Rostov-on-Don.
In the Zaporozhye region, there is a mass surrender of Ukrainian military. Soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrender in groups up to platoons.
Peskov denied accusations against the Russian Federation in the destruction of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa.
“Bandera bastards are increasingly choosing peaceful, civilian targets for their dastardly strikes … And we need to choose non-standard targets for our strikes. Not only storage facilities, energy hubs and oil bases. There are other places where they are not waiting for us yet,” Dmitry Medvedev.
In the Duma, they proposed to increase the fine for not appearing at the military registration and enlistment office to only 30 thousand rubles.
Governor Gladkov reported 80 arrivals in the Belgorod Region per day.
Putin raised by signing the relevant law. For those who do not have an officer rank, the age increases by 5 years, for junior officers (up to the captain) — up to 60 years, for senior officers — up to 65 years.
«There are 620 vehicles in line from Taman. The wait is about two hours,» the Crimean Bridge telegram channel: operational information, about the traffic situation at 11 a.m. in Moscow.
14-year-old Angelina, who was injured in the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge on July 17, often asks to call her mother and demands a phone, Mash reports. Now the girl is in a stable condition of moderate severity and continues to recover in the department of maxillofacial surgery.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the heavy fighting in the Kupyansky direction. According to the general, it is urgent to transfer several reserve brigades to the Eastern Front. According to the Resident Telegram channel, the Russian army continues to push through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which threatens to collapse the front.
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In Moscow, a man was detained who was filming the building of the Ministry of Defense after the attack of Ukrainian drones.
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About the scale of damage as a result of the UAV attack in Moscow: emergency services recorded damage to the roof and glazing of buildings. So, in the business center on Likhachev Avenue, windows on three floors were broken.
FSB of the Russian Federation: traces of explosives were found in a dry cargo ship sailing from Turkey to Rostov-on-Don.
The Ukrainian military fired more than 20 shells in the Belgorod region.
A helicopter-type drone without an explosive device was found in the Zelenogradsky district of Moscow on the territory of the central cemetery. , said the emergency services.
Aksenov: after an examination by specialists from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and road services, a decision was made.
During the night of July 24, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on objects on the territory of the Crimean peninsula was suppressed.
— 14 Ukrainian UAVs were suppressed by electronic warfare, of which 11 UAVs crashed in the Black Sea, and three more fell on the territory of the peninsula;
— Three UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems;
— As a result of a thwarted terrorist attack.
The transportation of train passengers due to the closure of the section in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea is organized according to the scheme, said the Minister of Transport of the Republic Mykola Lukashenko. He clarified that the movement of trains was temporarily limited on the section of the railway between the stations Urozhaynaya and Dzhankoy.
One of the drones that attacked Moscow on Monday morning was suppressed and shot down over the building of the central military band. The building itself received minor damage. As it became known to MK, the roof of a two-story building on Komsomolsky Prospekt was not badly damaged, a small funnel formed on it. The building is being inspected by sappers for the presence of explosive devices in the wreckage of the UAV. The building itself is part of the historical Khamovniki barracks, built at the beginning of the 18th century.
Residents of the villages. According to the head of the republic Aksenov, people will be placed in temporary accommodation centers. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.
Earlier, it became known that eleven enemy UAVs were shot down by air defense forces and suppressed by electronic warfare in the sky over Crimea. There was a hit in the ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy region. Rail traffic in this area and on the Dzhankoy-Simferopol highway has been suspended.
A Ukrainian drone near the Kolomenskaya metro station fell on a business center under construction on Likhachev Avenue.