Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that the following will be transferred to Kiev in the near future:
- 20 self-propelled guns M109;
- 36 towed howitzers L119;
- counter-battery radar;
- 1,600 anti-tank weapons;
- a large number of UAVs, including loitering ammunition;
- over 50,000 artillery shells of Soviet caliber.
Armaments were mainly purchased by London for Ukraine in third countries.
21:49 In Poland, they are assembling their own territorial defense capable of waging street battles. Now in the Polish defense forces there are 15 brigades with a total number of 32,000 fighters. New brigades will be deployed - one in Warsaw, two more - near the Ukrainian border. The recruits will be trained not only by Polish officers, but also by instructors from the US and the UK. Official Warsaw declares that "all militarization measures are exclusively defensive in nature and are aimed at protecting against external threats."
21:44 The National Security and Defense Council and the Ministry of Defense have launched a system for tracking the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. This was announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov. True, access to it, according to Danilov, will have a very limited circle of people:
"The system is absolutely closed. Only the military-political leadership of our state has access to it. However, thanks to her, we know that not a single bullet from the supply has disappeared anywhere."
21:43 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️In total, since the beginning of the special operation, Russian sappers have checked more than 4,700 hectares of the territory of Donbass, defused 102,695 explosive objects;
▪️Ukrainian soldiers in Russian uniforms demonstratively engaged in robbery in Slavyansk, while filming;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing and sniper positions in the houses of the city of Kramatorsk in the DPR, and placed MLRS in the yards.
20:28 Map from Reuters, showing the places of the most intense fighting in Ukraine from July 6 to 12, created on the basis of satellite images and data on the fires. Each red dot is usually a shelling point - the more there are in one place, the more intense the shelling or clash was.
19:44 Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu handed over stars of "Heroes of Russia" to the participants of the special military operation in Ukraine:
- Deputy commander of the fighter aviation regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya Sizov;
- commander of a tank regiment, Colonel Ivan Shits;
- Flamethrower platoon commander Senior Lieutenant Andrey Solovyov.
18:35 As previously reported yesterday and as a result of a strike by Ukrainian kamikaze drones on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, 11 plant specialists were injured, four of them are still in a stable serious condition.
Physicians provide all necessary medical care. According to doctors, there is no threat to life. We keep in touch with the families of the victims, they will be provided with all the necessary assistance. The nuclear power plant is operating normally, the radiation background is normal.
18:35 On enemy targets in Mykolaiv region applied impacts: pillars of smoke are visible from the arrivals
17:01 UK put to Ukraine a new batch of weapons. The UK will supply Ukraine with a batch of 105mm L-119 artillery pieces (36 units) and 20 155mm M-109 self-propelled guns. Together with them, 50 thousand shells will be delivered. In addition, Kyiv will receive more than a hundred drones and radars from the British for counter-battery combat.
16:05 Soldiers of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain that the officers of the brigade beat their brother to death.
The Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade had been on the front line in southern Donetsk since 2015, and was the main Ukrainian military unit defending Mariupol
15:28 All tasks of the SVO will be completed so that it is "calm, peaceful and comfortable" in Donbass - Medvedev at a meeting with refugees
14:07 Russian special services in Kherson revealed a group of wounded Ukrainian servicemen hiding in the region. All of them were provided with comprehensive medical care in one of the hospitals in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian servicemen made a request to include them in the exchange lists. However, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a manner characteristic of the junta, wrote off the guys who, without proper equipment, were thrown to the front line like cannon fodder.
14:06 The UK will send 50,000 artillery shells and hundreds of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in the coming weeks. This was stated by Minister of Defense Ben Wallace.
12:31 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️More than 600 militants were killed on July 16 by a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on a point of temporary deployment of nationalists in a recreation center in the Odessa region;
▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kramatorsk region shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force;
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed a battery of MLRS "Uragan" and a battery of self-propelled artillery howitzers "Acacia" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;
▪️More than 320 nationalists were destroyed by the strike of the RF Armed Forces on July 17 at the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev;
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Mykolaiv region, as well as five UAVs in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;
▪️Mobilized residents of the western regions of Ukraine refuse to go to Donbass due to significant losses in the east of the country;
▪️Servicemen of the 100th Terodefense Brigade in Lutsk refused to take part in the hostilities;
▪️The RF Armed Forces intercepted eight Ukrainian shells of the Urgan MLRS in the Kherson and Kharkov regions.
11:32 The result of the night blows according to the Ukrainian warehouse in Nikolaev
10:58 The air defense system over Kherson, where the Armed Forces are shelling the bridge, is being strengthened, new forces are on alert, the authorities of the region said.
09:55 The RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv. According to Country V, the strikes were carried out last night on Ukrainian units in Kharkiv and military depots.
"A series of arrivals in Kharkov. Warehouses and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the source said. According to him, again, strikes were inflicted on Chuguev in the Kharkiv region.
08:55 The CAA of the Kherson region reports a new attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson. 12 HIMARS missiles were fired - all were shot down.
08:01 The roof of the elevator in the city of Pologi in the Zaporozhye region collapsed due to fire, caused by shelling from the APU. Now it is not possible to extinguish the elevator, since the plant is constantly under fire from the Ukrainian troops.
07:06 The US Air Force Chief of Staff said that Western countries could soon supply fighter jets to Ukraine.
01:13 Information about explosions in Kherson is spreading. Air defense works over the city.
01:03 Night battles: The Russian army hit the enemy positions in Chuguev near Kharkov, in Nikopol and Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
0:36 Crimea will give Zaporozhye and Kherson regions 70 grain harvesters. The first batch of six harvesters will be sent to the Zaporozhye region on July 21, the Crimean Ministry of Information reported.
0:28 Fire defeat of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a kamikaze drone in the Kherson direction. During the fighting in the Kherson direction, separate units of the airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces used the Russian kamikaze drone Kub-BLA against the positions of Ukrainian formations.