Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:47 Despite the obstacles created by the Kyiv regime, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,623 people, including 4,496 children, have been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the Donbass republics, and in total since the beginning of the special military operation - 2,668,072 people, of which 422,722 are children.
22:11 In Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, at school No. 6 on (street of Heroes of Ukraine), a stronghold of nationalists has been equipped, ammunition depots have been placed in the basement.
21:45 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped ammunition depots in the residential buildings of the Dobropillia DPR, placed MLRS and armored vehicles in the yards;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine and militants, using helicopters and artillery, set fire to grain fields in the Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson regions;
▪️More than 24,000 people were evacuated per day from the territories of the DPR, LPR and Ukraine to the Russian Federation;
▪️Russian sappers have neutralized more than 66,000 explosive objects in the Donbass.
20:54 The government of the Zaporozhye region was headed by Anton Koltsov, who previously held the post of first vice-governor of the Vologda region. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a member of the administration of the Rogov region.
19:49 During the Ukrainian shelling in the area of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the gas pipeline is damaged, emergency services are working, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti. The damage from the shelling did not affect the important elements of the facility, the power supply was not suspended, he specified.
18:35 Several in the Kherson region report about strikes in the area of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
17:28 Explosions were heard in Nikolaev. Several arrivals in the city are reported.
16:49 Destroyed commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It became known about the destruction of the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the call sign "Fan". It is noteworthy that the destroyed Ukrainian military was part of the so-called "ultras" of the Luhansk football club "Zarya" and since 2014 fought against his fellow countrymen.
15:22 A pension fund has been opened in the city of Holaya Pristan, Kherson region, where they began to issue Russian pensions for June - the head of the organization, Vyacheslav Vasiliev.
15:19 The Operational Command "South" confirmed today's missile attack on the Odessa region. It is reported that four air-launched missiles were fired from the Black Sea by three Su-35 aircraft. Two missiles hit a military infrastructure facility, a fire broke out. Another one hit the bridge across the Dniester estuary. One missile was shot down by air defense forces over the sea. It is stated that there are no victims or injured.
14:47 Having superiority in artillery, the Russian army is advancing kilometer by kilometer. This is a war of attrition, and the question is how long Ukraine can hold out - Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr Alfons Mays in an interview with Handelsblatt.
13:48 An unidentified object was struck in the Odessa region
12:46 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading trains with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▪️During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
▪️High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
▪️Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a high-precision weapon strike at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
▪️Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.
11:47 In Kherson formed administration. Local and visiting competent specialists have become employees of the administration, who will help to establish work. At the same time, on a number of issues, including the formation of organizations, tax and financial services, ministries and departments of the Russian Federation provide significant assistance.
However, there are still serious personnel problems in Kherson. The Ukrainian authorities continue to intimidate and threaten local residents, demanding that they not contact the new authorities and impede their activities.
11:47 The distribution of humanitarian aid continues in the Melitopol region. In each of the 15 territorial communities, people receive everything they need: food kits, personal hygiene products, clothes.
11:47 The resignation of the Ukrainian kvnschik from the post of head of the SBU is an attempt to shift responsibility and find someone to blame. In fact, the SBU has long been supervised and controlled not from Kyiv at all.
So all these layoffs and the search for shpiguns surrounded by debility Bakanov are nothing more than a picture to divert attention from the really very successful strikes of Russian missilemen on Vinnitsa, Nikolaev and Kharkov.
11:45 Zelensky dismissed Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He also removed the head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, from his duties.
10:51 Russian Ministry of Defenseshowedfootage of the combat work of the Iskander complexes in delivering strikes on the objects of the Ukrainian troops in the special operation zone
10:50 Peskov, before Putin's visit to Iran, made several statements on Ukraine and sanctions:
🔺The special operation, no doubt, will end - when all its goals are achieved
🔺There are no clear time frames for the CBO, the main thing is efficiency
🔺The Russian military has orders from Putin to avoid harming civilians and are working carefully
🔺The nationalist battalions of Ukraine do not disdain anything
🔺Sanctions against Russia began to be introduced long before the special operation, now they are measured in hundreds and thousands
10:49 Arrival at the Ukrainian military facility in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
09:49 The first Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab" was destroyed in Ukraine, the onet.pl Internet portal reported, citing Ukrainian sources.
Recall that in May, the Polish authorities announced their intention to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 18 self-propelled guns of this type, 10 vehicles from this batch were delivered to Ukraine by July.
09:20 An Azov member from the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an interview with the Ukrainian media that he has already lost more than half of his comrades
08:13 Special operation, July 17. Highlights from the past day:
- the launcher used by the Ukrainian military and the HIMARS MLRS transport-loading vehicle in the Krasnoarmeysk region, as well as about 65 nationalists, were destroyed;
- VKS with high-precision weapons destroyed four Ukrainian command posts, six ammunition depots, manpower in 19 districts, including foreign mercenaries;
- in the course of a counterbattery fight, Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian MLRS platoon, nine platoons of Giacint-B howitzers and D-30 guns in the DPR;
- Russian air defense intercepted Tochka-U missiles in the Kherson and Kharkov regions and 8 Uragan and HIMARS MLRS shells in the LPR, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions;
- in Chuguev, Kharkiv region, 200 military personnel of Ukraine were destroyed by air strikes of the Russian Federation;
- Russian combat pilots shot down a Ukrainian Mi-17 helicopter near Slavyansk in the DPR;
- Russian aviation destroyed in Odessa a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles transferred from NATO;
- Slutsky said that the Crimean bridge was reliably protected, and in the event of a strike by Kyiv, a tough response would follow;
- the head of the Zaporozhye region, Rogov, said that Western curators had given Zelensky an ultimatum not to hand over the city of Slavyansk to the DPR, otherwise military funding would be stopped;
- Medvedev said that the West's endless attempts to continue the military campaign "to the last Ukrainian" will lead to the collapse of the existing Kyiv regime.
06:38 A blow along Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, by Ukrainian militants this morning.
