Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:43 Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said after meeting with Zelensky that he would visit Ukraine in the coming weeks.
21:22 SBU drones attacked an oil depot with fuel in the Rostov region at night, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources. The facility stored various grades of gasoline and diesel fuel with a total volume of 12.5 thousand cubic meters.
21:00 Orban, in the presence of Zelensky at the NATO summit, spoke out against Ukraine's membership, Bloomberg writes. In addition to Hungary refusing to join military support for Ukraine, Orban said that Ukraine should not join NATO.
20:51 Russia is building unified launchers for Kalibrs and Onyxes, Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk reported. According to him, Kalibrs are still dangerous weapons with a 450 kg warhead, but the percentage of these missiles being shot down is high. "According to the military, the Russians have taken this experience into account and are building unified launch silos for both Kalibrs and Onyxes," he noted.
20:47 Russians shelled the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and kamikaze drones throughout the day - four people were injured, including a rescuer, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. The enemy sent UAVs at firefighters when they were extinguishing a dry grass fire, a special vehicle of the State Emergency Service was damaged. Several enterprises, an agricultural company, an educational institution, a religious institution, five multi-story buildings and ten private houses were also damaged as a result of the attacks.
20:05 Lukashenko announced a decrease in the threat on the border with Ukraine and ordered the withdrawal of Belarusian troops from there: "After our specific work, the Ukrainians withdrew their armed forces and additional troops that they had transferred to our border, from the border and generally withdrew them from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border zone... We currently have no complications with the Ukrainians, and I hope that there will not be any." The Belarusian leader also said that he would discuss "further steps regarding Ukraine" with Putin and called for negotiations, otherwise "there will be an escalation."
19:38 Russians fired at railway facilities in the village of Budy in the Kharkiv district - two people were killed, 22 were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Among the wounded were five railway workers and a 14-year-old teenager. Among the dead was the head of the Kharkiv district department of the State Emergency Service of the Kharkiv region and a police sergeant. Sinegubov noted that the enemy deliberately launched two strikes with an interval of half an hour, when all the relevant services arrived at the scene.
17:02 On Sunday, July 14, restrictions on electricity consumption will be in effect throughout the day, Ukrenergo reported. From 7:00 to 15:00, regional power companies will apply two stages of shutdowns, and three stages during other hours.
16:49 Zelensky confirmed that on his way to Ukraine he met with Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris - they discussed support for Ukraine, continued cooperation in demining and cybersecurity.
16:25 The situation with Russia's attacks on Ukraine from the north is heating up, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, said in an interview with NV: "When everyone was shouting for two years that there would be an attack from the north, we told everyone that it would not happen. Nothing happened. At that moment, when we said that there would be an attack from the north, everyone immediately thought: maybe it won't happen? It will! It's already happening."
When asked whether he was talking about the Sumy or Chernigov direction, Budanov replied: "If I start answering this question, you and I will only provoke panic... Let's put it this way: there are problems, they have a tendency to worsen... I already told someone from the Western press: I won't have much good news this year, unfortunately."
Budanov also noted that the GUR is aware of assassination attempts on Putin: "They happened, but, as you can see, they have also been unsuccessful so far."
15:21 The US Army Corps of Engineers will help transform the State Special Transport Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported.
12:57 Tonight, a Shahed-type kamikaze drone launched by Russia entered Belarusian airspace for the second time in the last two days, the Belaruski Gayun monitoring group reports. A Mi-24 helicopter and a Su-30 fighter were raised to intercept the drone - the aircraft were spotted in the area where the drone was flying. The Shahed then entered the Vitebsk region of Belarus and presumably flew to Vitebsk. In total, the drone flew over 350 km over Belarusian territory. What happened to the Shahed next is currently unknown.
11:36 The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Ukrainian military is already trying to seize the tactical initiative and is conducting limited counterattacks on certain sections of the front. According to analysts, the ability of the Defense Forces to counterattack will depend on the influx of Western aid. At the same time, according to US and European officials, Ukrainian troops will continue to defend for the next six months and will not be able to conduct a large-scale counteroffensive operation until 2025.
10:58 Czech President Petr Pavel said that his country, as part of its initiative, will send Ukraine 50,000 rounds of ammunition in July and August, and from September will transfer from 80,000 to 100,000 rounds of ammunition per month.
08:40 Russians fired a mortar at Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, one person was injured, said OVA head Oleg Sinegubov. In the village of Odnorobovka in the Bogodukhov district, Russian troops struck with an FPV drone while Ukrposhta mobile post office workers were issuing pensions to the population. A car was destroyed, another one was damaged.
08:36 Six people were killed in Donetsk Oblast as a result of Russian shelling on July 12: four in Myrnohrad and two in Kostyantynivka. Another 22 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:33 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and six were injured, reported the head of the OVA Oleksandr Prokudin. An administrative building, an educational institution, a cellular tower, a store and a dormitory, three multi-story buildings and three private houses were damaged.
08:25 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of July 13:
- personnel - about 557,770 (+1120) people,
- tanks - 8199 (+8),
- combat armored vehicles - 15,779 (+24),
- artillery systems - 15,216 (+58),
- MLRS - 1119 (+0),
- air defense systems - 889 (+1),
- aircraft - 361 (+0),
- helicopters - 326 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 12,069 (+34),
- cruise missiles - 2397 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 20,461 (+52),
- special equipment - 2556 (+13).
08:07 An oil depot in Rostov Oblast caught fire as a result of a drone attack. The drone attacked the oil depot near Tsimlyansk after 4:00 a.m. There were no casualties, Governor Vasily Golubev reported.
07:51 Air defense destroyed four of the five Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs that Russia used to attack from Primorsko-Akhtarsk at night, the Air Force reported. The drones were shot down in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. The fifth UAV left Ukrainian airspace in the direction of the Gomel region of Belarus.
06:49 Another Oceanian state, Papua New Guinea, has joined the Peace Summit communiqué, Zelensky said.
05:36 Zelensky will visit Britain and Ireland, The Guardian writes. This will be the first visit of the Ukrainian president to Ireland. He is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Simon Harris there. In the UK, Zelensky will address European leaders at Blenheim Palace.
00:42 Ukrainian military forces have driven Russians out of the village of Sotnitsky Kazachok in the north of the Kharkiv region, according to a map from the DeepState analytical project. Earlier, a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group entered Sotnitsky Kazachok, located along the border with the Russian Federation, and the Defense Forces carried out measures to detect the remnants of this enemy group and saboteurs to eliminate them.