[Korrespondent] 22:23 Departure from the Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine is actually blocked, because the road through Vasilievka was washed out because of the rains, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan. According to him, "it was the only more or less normal way to get out of the occupation in the direction of controlled Ukraine."
22:20 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan shocked the world over China's threats. Relations between China and Taiwan are an ever-smoldering conflict that began more than 70 years ago. Read more in the material Confrontation between China and Taiwan .
22:17 Zelensky admitted in an evening video message that Ukraine still cannot completely break the advantage of the Russian army in artillery and manpower: "And this is very felt in battles, especially in the Donbass - Peski, Avdiivka, and other directions. It's just hell. This can't even be described in words... And every Ukrainian should always be grateful to our soldiers who defend the Ukrainian positions there, despite the tangible fire advantage of the terrorists."
22:10 In one of the districts of Nikolaev, after powerful explosions around 21:00, a fire started, there are also power outages, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.
21:38 The RF Armed Forces are deploying airborne units to the Kherson direction, thus making up for the losses, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan on the air of the telethon. At the same time, he denied the information about the impending attack of the enemy. Khlan also said that the Russians are moving pontoon bridges across the Dnieper near Kherson by boats, the crossing takes about two hours. The pontoons carry civilian vehicles and military equipment.
21:17 The first dry cargo ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Istanbul, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. After inspection, the ship must deliver the cargo to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon.
20:49 In the Lviv region, during an air raid, two explosions occurred on the territory of a military facility in the Chervonograd region, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky. The extent of the damage is currently being established, and there are no casualties yet.
20:14 Today, the Russians fired eight X-101 (X-555) type cruise missiles in the direction of the central, southern and western regions of Ukraine, said Air Force Command spokesman Yuriy Ignat. Seven out of eight missiles were shot down by air defense, including six missiles destroyed by anti-aircraft missile troops and one shot down by an Air Force fighter.
19:43 The troops of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations in a number of operational areas, while in some of them the invaders had partial success, and in the rest they were stopped, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in an evening summary . In particular, the enemy has partial success in the Vozrozhdeniye-Kodema and Donetsk-Peski directions.
19:32 The United States expanded sanctions against Russia, adding 13 more individuals to the list, including Alina Kabaeva and the head of Phosagro Guryev, as well as more than 30 legal entities and two ships. New sanctions, among other things, will be introduced against Skolkovo and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, the Gauleiters of Mariupol Ivashchenko and the Kherson region of Saldo.
In addition, the US is imposing visa sanctions on 893 Russian officials, including members of the Federation Council and the military, as well as 31 third-country officials for supporting the annexation of Crimea.
18:59 Russia launched a missile attack on the territory of the Chervonograd district of the Lviv region, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
18:55 Podolyak called the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to recognize the Azov Battalion as a "terrorist organization" as legal nonsense. He recalled that no Azov volunteer battalion has existed in nature since 2014, since Azov is a separate special forces detachment, which is part of the 12th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, that is, it is part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office stressed that the decisions of the Russian courts will not have any consequences in the international legal field, and Russian jurisdiction does not extend to the territory of Ukraine and the actions of Ukrainian citizens to protect the territorial integrity of the state. "In any case, Russia will bear direct legal responsibility for the abuse of prisoners of war, in particular, by provoking invalid and fake" court decisions ". Even if these decisions are needed by the Russian Federation purely for internal propaganda use," Podolyak summed up.
18:47 The presence of the OSCE in Ukraine will continue without the consent of the Russian Federation, Zbigniew Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, said at a press conference in Kiev.
He also announced a new program for Ukraine: "Today I have the opportunity to announce that we are launching a large and ambitious program for Ukraine ... We are determined to stay on the ground and support Ukraine on its way to overcome a huge number of challenges, as well as with post-war reconstruction. I am convinced that the OSCE will play an important role in these projects."
18:35 Germany is blocking a package of assistance to Ukraine for 8 billion euros, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Igor Zhovkva said at a briefing: "We expect another 8 billion euros to be provided. Unfortunately, certain EU states, in particular Germany, are blocking consideration of this issue, and the President of Ukraine is active negotiations with partners.
18:04 Air defense has just shot down two Russian missiles over the Vinnytsia region, the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov, said.
18:01 There is no reason to trust the lists of the dead and wounded in Yelenovka published by the Russians, Andrey Yusov, a representative of the GUR MOU, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the coordinating headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war immediately turned to Russia for information after the attack, but has not yet received official answers.
During the check, it turned out that the lists published by the Russians contain the names of Ukrainian soldiers who were wounded before the events in Yelenovka and in respect of which there were agreements on an exchange in the near future. At the time of the attack, they should have been in a hospital, not in a barracks in an industrial area, Yusov stressed. "Accordingly, we cannot talk about confirming the lists, and the Russians have not yet provided official answers within the framework of international law," he added.
17:51 The whole world is watching the tour of the third person in the US government to the island, which China considers its own, expecting a military conflict. There is a concept of the Thucydides trap about the inevitability of war between America and China. Read more in Taiwan Pelosi Press .
17:30 Another 500 thousand people can be called up to the Armed Forces of Ukraine if necessary, but so far there are no problems with personnel in the Ukrainian army, Major General Andriy Kovalchuk, commander of the Pivden operational command, said in an interview with Tabletmag: “We have already mobilized half a million people, and we can mobilize another half million if necessary. What we need now to continue the operation is heavier weapons."
16:48 Canada has expanded the list of sanctions against Russia, adding more than 40 individuals and 17 legal entities to it.
16:33 In the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated seven more settlements, the total number of de-occupied ones has increased to 53 , the head of the OVA Dmitry Butriy said on the air of the telethon: “To date, 53 settlements have been officially confirmed that have been liberated. We provide this information only when it is agreed with the General Staff, until the complete liberation, the military will carry out certain demining actions." At the same time, he added that almost the entire de-occupied territory is under constant enemy shelling, so it is still impossible to return to these settlements.
15:54 Miami is handing over 167 firearms to Irpin as part of a campaign to buy weapons from Americans called Guns 4 Ukraine, Irpin Mayor Alexander Markushin said. Those wishing to hand over unnecessary weapons were offered a cash reward in the amount of 50 to 200 dollars per unit. To the repurchased pistols and machine guns, the Miami police added confiscated ones. Now the legal procedure for the transfer of weapons to Irpen is being completed, a license and permits have been received. Similar negotiations are already underway with Houston. The weapons will be handed over to the Irpin police and territorial defense fighters.
15:27 Spain will not send the promised Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said. According to her, due to downtime, the equipment is in a deplorable state and is unsuitable for shipment.
15:12 Shoigu said that the occupation of the Donetsk region "is going according to plan." According to the head of the RF Ministry of Defense, after "taking control" of the territory of the "LPR", the Donetsk region is planned to be "liberated". He clarified that recently the Russians allegedly seized six settlements - Grigorievka, Berestovo, Stryapovka, Pokrovskoye, Semigorye and Novoluganskoye, as well as the Uglegorsk TPP.
14:48 American legislators have submitted a bill recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The initiators of the legislation, including both Democrats and Republicans, explain that they want to use all possible levers to end the Russian war against Ukraine. For more details - in the material , Congress recognizes the Russian Federation as a sponsor of terrorism - what does this change .
14:33 Zelensky signed a decree according to which foreign volunteers serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be able to renew their contracts for ten years at once - up to reaching the age limit for military service.
14:12 Stoltenberg said that he spoke with Zelensky about priorities in military support, the grain agreement and the need for its full implementation: "It is imperative that NATO and allies provide even more assistance to Ukraine and even faster."
14:09 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on Vinnitsa on July 14 has risen to 27 people: another doctor died from burns in the hospital, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Borzov.
13:45 Podolyak reacted to Trump's statement that Ukraine needed to give Crimea to Russia and abandon NATO: "Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if it had abandoned NATO and Crimea! - an absurd Russian propaganda stamp that is repeated by some Western politics. Why? Russia attacked because it wants to destroy Ukraine, kill children, scare Europe with its cruelty. There is no need to look for excuses for non-humans."
13:37 Partisans began to work successfully in the Lugansk region, the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai said on the air of the telethon: "The situation in the Luhansk region remains unchanged for several weeks in a row. In a small part of the Lugansk region, in the area of two settlements, our Armed Forces hold the line of defense. Everything offensives that the Russians are trying to undertake, they repulse. So the Russians have no success there. But the partisans began to work for us, and quite successfully. This is not only posting leaflets, but also the destruction of infrastructure, which helps a lot to slow down attacks and advance Russian army".
13:30 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Azov battalion as a "terrorist organization" and banned it on the territory of Russia.
13:26 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism could lead to a break in diplomatic relations with the United States.
12:38 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau arrived in Ukraine, the organization reported. OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid arrived with him. The delegation has already visited Bucha.
12:35 The first vessel with Ukrainian grain successfully passed through the grain corridor, the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul reported. Now the ship is moving to Istanbul, where it will arrive at midnight, it will be inspected by representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN.
12:14 Ukraine has not yet lost a single HIMARS system, Major General Andrei Kovalchuk, commander of the Pivden operational command, said in an interview with Tablet Magazine. At the same time, he emphasized that every HIMARS missile hits the target: “Each missile destroys a bridge or an ammunition depot. Our allies also saw tremendous economic efficiency in the way we use missiles. Each missile fired destroys much more of its value in Russian equipment or ammunition.”
The general noted that Ukrainian troops use missiles against HIMARS much more effectively than the Russians, who hit missiles worth millions of dollars for "insignificant gain."
11:41 In Crimea, they are preparing to return to the control of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told TSN: "The enemy continues to regroup its forces in the Kherson and Zaporozhye directions. A battalion tactical group of Russian paratroopers has arrived in the occupied Crimea to be sent to the mainland of Ukraine. In addition "On the peninsula, the invaders are strengthening the air defense system. Against this background, the partisans and the movement against the invaders have become more active. People are preparing for the fact that we will return there."
11:37 Blinken said that the Russians are using the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as a military base, which serves as a kind of "nuclear shield" for them. According to him, Russian troops are constantly firing at Ukrainian forces from the territory of the nuclear power plant, but they do not receive a response, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot allow an accident at the plant.
In turn, the representative of the Russian Federation to the UN stated that "there are no military formations at the nuclear power plant, with the exception of a limited number of military personnel necessary to control its safety."
11:29 The Ministry of Culture recommends renaming streets throughout Ukraine named after Gagarin, Pushkin, Gorky, Lermontov, Mayakovsky, Michurin, Chkalov, Komarov, Suvorov and Matrosov. According to the ministry's expert council, these are the ten most common toponyms associated with Russians whose lives and activities have nothing to do with Ukraine.
11:08 Irina Vereshchuk announced the start of mandatory evacuation from Donbass. The first train arrived this morning in Kropyvnytskyi. Among the evacuees are women, children, the elderly, and many people with limited mobility. "Everyone was met and settled, everyone was helped," the minister assured.
10:53 The share of Russian gas in Germany's imports has fallen from 55% to 30%, Scholz told The Globe and Mail: "I don't want to deny that we have relied too different reality and are adjusting quickly. We have stopped importing coal from Russia, we will stop importing oil by the end of this year. Gas is the hardest thing."
The chancellor also called Moscow's idea of gas supplies through Ukraine instead of Nord Stream a trap, and problems with the delivery of the turbine - Putin's bluff: "He can no longer use this pretext and refer to technical reasons for reducing gas supplies. This is already a well-known scheme: the Russian Federation wanted to stop gas supplies and blame the outcome on EU sanctions."
10:38 The Administration of the Sea Ports of Ukraine reported that 68 ships with 1.2 million tons of cargo on board have been in Ukrainian ports since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Two-thirds of these cargoes are "food awaited around the world."
10:25 The head of Nibulon Alexey Vadatursky knew that Russia was hunting him, Le Monde journalist Olivier Truk, who met with Vadatursky in Izmail in mid-July, told Le Monde journalist: “The day before our meeting, he barely escaped from a missile attack on Nikolaev University. Visibly stunned However, he was preparing to return on the road to Nikolaev. He asked us not to remember his visit. He knew that he was a priority target. Alexey Vadatursky knew that he was under attack, especially since he condemned the organized theft of Ukrainian grain by Russian troops, the victim of which he became in his warehouses in Kherson.
10:19 In the Kharkiv region, Russians fired at Kharkiv, Bogodukhovsky, Chuguevsky and Izyumsky districts at night, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. As a result of the shelling, civilian infrastructure was damaged: production in the Chuguevsky district, a residential building in Kharkovsky, a hotel and restaurant complex and outbuildings in Cherkasy Tishki, a farm in the Bogodukhovsky district. People were not hurt.
09:43 Russians again fired at two districts of Nikolaev from MLRS Smerch and S-300 tonight. The dormitory of one of the universities was damaged, a guard was wounded. Residential buildings and shops were also damaged. Previously without casualties, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim. Settlements in the Nikolaevsky and Bashtansky districts also came under shelling, there is no information about the victims and injured.
09:26 Before the launch of HIMARS missiles, Ukrainian and American intelligence are holding consultations, allowing Washington to stop any potential attacks if they are "dissatisfied with the intended target," said Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, in an interview with The Telegraph. According to him, for precision strikes on Russian targets, Ukraine “uses real-time information,” but at the same time, “US officials do not provide direct targeting information so as not to undermine the argument that they are not direct participants in the war.” .
Skibitsky also said that a special group of GRU special forces from unit 29155 is hunting for HIMARS systems in Ukraine. Today, the total number of installations in Ukraine is 16 pieces, their destruction is not confirmed. According to Skibitsky, Russian agents monitor all Western weapons that enter Ukraine mainly through the airfield in Polish Rzeszow. Then they pass the information on to agents in Ukraine, who direct them to the places where Caliber is stored. Skibitsky admitted that "Russia has a lot of information", they use all types of intelligence: air, space, collaborators from the Ukrainian side.
09:09 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy by the morning of August 2. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Krivoy Rog directions.
- personnel - about 41,170 (+140) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1768 (+0),
- armored combat vehicles - 4014 (+3),
- artillery systems - 936 (+4),
- MLRS - 259 (+0),
- air defense systems - 117 (+0),
- aircraft - 223 (+0),
- helicopters - 191 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 739 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 174 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2914 (+2),
- special equipment - 82 (+0).
08:42 British intelligence notes that the incident with a drone near the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol was another setback for the Black Sea Fleet in the five months of the war against Ukraine, among which was also the loss of its flagship, the cruiser Moskva. After reports of the cancellation of the celebrations, it is unlikely that the Black Sea Fleet will be able to hold high-profile public events in parallel with hostilities, analysts say.
08:29 In the occupied Kherson region, the Russians are suffering significant losses - the number of wounded is constantly increasing, which caused the deployment of a military hospital in Berislav on the basis of the hospital. According to the deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, Yuriy Sobolevsky, doctors were brought from Russia, about forty people. They tried to resettle them in dwellings left by people, but the locals drove them away, so for now military doctors are forced to live in one of the hospital buildings.
08:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the enemy assault on the Bakhmut, Kharkov, Kramatorsk, Yuzhnobugsky, Avdeevsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning report .
08:06 Scholz said in an interview with Globe and Mail that Ukraine is receiving weapons from the Germans that the Bundeswehr does not yet have: “Self-propelled howitzers, multiple rocket launchers, anti-aircraft systems, counter-battery radars. Some of these systems are so new that they were very few were produced, and some of them were not even represented in the Bundeswehr."
Ukrainians are being trained on new and more sophisticated equipment at several locations in Germany, he said, and Berlin will continue to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes."
07:35 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is convinced that the Russian forces are responsible for the death of 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the colony in Yelenovka. According to analysts, satellite and other images from the site show that only one building was damaged in the attack, the walls of this building were not destroyed, and there were no shell craters around, which is very strong evidence that the destruction of the prison was the result of either point strike, or embedded inside an incendiary or explosive. In addition, there are no traces of the use of HIMARS on the territory of the colony, as stated in the "DNR".
06:01 In Nikolaev around 4:00 powerful explosions thundered in several districts of the city, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said. According to preliminary data, one person was injured.
03:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians are transferring troops from the north of the Donetsk region to Zaporizhia and stop the campaign to attack Slavyansk. This is likely to create an opportunity for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to launch a counteroffensive in the Izyum direction - just as the Russian seizure of the Luhansk region allowed Ukraine to create conditions for a counteroffensive in the Kherson region, analysts say.
The redeployment of Russian troops to the Zaporozhye region suggests that Ukrainian counter-offensives will not be limited to the Kherson region and will likely be carried out along the entire southern axis, according to ISW.