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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Reservoirs Turned into Puddles. Donbass on the Brink of a Water Catastrophe
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

A young woman who I follow on V Kontakte says that water flows to a trickle and that's every three days. It is a potentially deadly situation.

by Alena Morozova and Denis Davydov

[REGNUM] Two days ago, the population of the Donetsk People's Republic watched with surprise as the bed of the Krynka River was cleared: those responsible vied with each other to claim that this would "ensure the unimpeded flow of water" into one of the reservoirs of the DPR water supply system.

Donetsk residents have been carrying water by hand in bottles for years
However, everyone knows that the Khanzhonkovskoye reservoir in question emptied in May. And, as residents of the village of Nizhnyaya Krynka claim, the water main running from here to Donetsk burst back in December, which is why the nearby village of Lipovoye was flooded for five months with water that was supposed to go to the filtration station.

This situation is all over the republic: reservoirs have emptied to critical levels, all cities, including Donetsk, have huge problems with water supply, but on “water day” it runs merrily through the streets and goes into the ground.

Nobody understands why it was impossible to clean the Krynka riverbed earlier.

"The problem did not start yesterday or even a week ago. It has been going on for years. Some people are luckier - water has finally reached them. But in a few hours you need to do laundry (preferably several times), wash dishes, clean the apartment and wash yourself, and many have children - and water consumption increases, and there is little "water" time.

Listening to the authorities about how they are "solving the problem" without stopping is funny and sad, sometimes it all looks like a mockery. We have already heard about new cool water pipelines, about wells and about water from mines. But these conversations have changed almost nothing," says Svetlana, a resident of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk,at the limit of her strength and emotions

The water supply situation in Donetsk and Makeyevka, which had been gradually improving since late 2022 - early 2023, is now close to catastrophic. On Sunday, July 20, residents of the region received a message from the Voda Donbassa company that due to an acute shortage of water, from July 21 it will be supplied once every three days from 17:00 to 21:00.

But by this time, society was already tense to the limit, since a few days before the official publication of the address by the head of government, Andrei Chertkov, a photograph of a document appeared on social networks, which contained new schedules separately for each of the largest agglomerations of the DPR.

There was no official information confirming or refuting these inputs, people read and were perplexed: is it true or not, will the supply of precious moisture be reduced or not. And most importantly, how to arrange life now in conditions of an acute shortage of water, of which there is already little.

But all official resources of the region kept silent for three days, until finally the head of the government actually confirmed: yes, there will be no water. Moreover, residents of all districts of Donetsk noticed a significant reduction not only in its supply, but also in pressure three weeks ago. Some houses in the city center saw water once every two days for only 20 minutes, during which you can only fill two buckets of 10 liters each.

At the same time, the officially established consumption rate is 330 liters per person per day (if the meter is not verified), and it is paid for as drinking water.

It takes about an hour to create such a supply of water.

"There has been no water at Artema, 84a, for the third week already, the water simply does not reach the upper floors due to the reduction in the supply time. It would start running later than everyone else, often from 18:00, and now there has been no water for the third week, even the tap does not make noise... Although the official channel of the Voroshilovsky district writes that the supply will be from 17:00 to 21:00," Elena, a resident of the Central District of Donetsktells the Regnum news agency.

Her family has a sad experience - the supply schedules change, but the water still doesn't reach the house. The house is old, without an elevator, you can't bring much to the upper floors, and they don't deliver it in the required quantity. Calls to the control room are unsuccessful, there is only one answer: "What do you want? The whole city is without water!"

On the outskirts and without adjustments the situation is hopeless.

According to Yulia, a resident of the Lidievka mine settlement, the last time they saw water from the tap was in February 2022. Most of the residents, and there are about 50 thousand of them, are pensioners. The authorities, of course, provided a supply, but the resource is catastrophically insufficient. There are only 5 tons of water for all 40 streets of the settlement.

"They brought it on Saturday. But that's nothing - only 5 tons a week for a few streets. And then what? Again in a week? We are all horrified, because the problem did not arise today. No one is doing anything in our area. And when we have to wait for water, only God knows, and hauling it all year round, in any weather, is becoming unbearable," says a woman desperate to get through to anyone.

The most amazing thing is that when water is supplied to the village, most of it again simply flows into the ground through rotten pipes. The most that emergency services do is plug the new holes with wooden plugs and bury the pipe back. People here were promised back in October of last year 2024 that the main water supply on Lyubarsky Street, which floods the nearest households, would be replaced, but nothing has changed.

According to Yulia, the problem was promised to be addressed personally by the deputy of the People's Council of the DPR Vitaly Zolotnyuk, who controls housing and communal services issues. He came to the village on July 8, called back the next day and said that Moscow would do the repair work, but he did not know when this would happen.

Almost daily, information appears on social networks that the Donbass water issue is being raised at the highest federal level and, at the same time, as the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin wrote in his Telegram channel on July 18, “planned repair work is underway on the water pipeline from the Don River to the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal.”

But people don’t believe in anything anymore, there’s no water in the tap.

And we are talking about the very same water pipeline, on which great hopes were pinned in 2023: the authorities of the republic insisted that the pipe would partially solve the region's problem. But everyone also remembers the story that the person responsible for its construction was Timur Ivanov, the former Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, who is now in a pretrial detention center and testifying on a number of episodes of embezzlement on an especially large scale.

Be that as it may, the volume of water that the branch from the Don River is capable of giving is 252.24 thousand cubic meters per day. This is not enough for Donetsk and the settlements adjacent to it, they still cannot do without local sources. And the weather in the region is becoming drier, while the number of people living in the capital of the DPR has increased many times over.

Those who do not have enough pressure on the upper floors are forced to carry water up the stairs.

"The level of Verkhne-Kalmius, Makeevka, and Olkhovsky has fallen to critical values. And the volumes that we have are not enough for industry, agriculture, or for supplying water to the residents of the republic," the head of government said on Friday evening.

The Makeyevka reservoir was replenished only from the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, the water intake of which has been under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014. Now, instead of 10 million cubic meters, there are 900 thousand left. The Verkhne-Kalmius reservoir received 12 million cubic meters, and now there are 700 thousand left. All of them simply turn into puddles.

Therefore, the authorities call the reduction in the water supply schedule to Donetsk and Makeyevka a “forced measure” in order to more rationally use the resource that the region currently has.

As a result, residents of Yenakiyevo have been receiving water once every four days since last fall, the Volyntsevskoye Reservoir, which fed the city, has dried up. And Mariupol, which for a long time saw water in the tap every day, was first transferred to an hourly schedule when the level of the Starokrymskoye Reservoir dropped by 60%, and from July 21, 2025 - to a schedule of supplying once every two days from 17:00 to 21:00, like everyone else.

By the way, there are also cities that receive water 24/7: Dokuchaevsk, Novoazovsk, Telmanovo, Amvrosievka, Starobeshevo. There are underground sources here, the presence of which can only be dreamed of by residents of that part of the DPR, where the underground water system is destroyed by mine workings.

But only a small part of the republic's population lives there.

Bolshaya lives like a young mother Emilia from the Central City District of Makeyevka. Her child is not even a year old yet, and due to her husband's frequent business trips, all household problems fall on the girl's shoulders.

"I have to lower the stroller in a building without an elevator, with a porch destroyed by time, make my way to the nearest store, pick up the baby (after all, in our stores, and in Makeyevka and Donetsk in general, there is nothing for mothers with strollers) and do everything with him in my arms. Of course, we have to wash often, we need to maintain the baby's hygiene and the cleanliness of his clothes, but there is no water for this," says Emilia.

Those whose children are going to school and kindergarten on September 1 for the long-awaited in-person learning are worried about how they will be provided with hot meals in the conditions of an acute shortage of water. And, in addition, there are other troubles: there is nothing to water the birds at the Rozovskaya poultry farm, and chickens are dying en masse there. Due to a lack of water, the Zuyevskaya TPP, one of the two key power plants in the DPR, may stop working. It is unclear how to conduct agriculture - there is nowhere to get water for irrigation.

All questions remain unanswered, there is no normal dialogue, and social tension is growing. And the new reduced feed schedules leave no chance at all to find some kind of solution on your own.

People do not hear or listen to any abstract action plans because they are tired. So far, all that the republic's authorities can offer is an increase in water delivery in "manual mode": provide hospitals and social institutions, install additional tanks, fill them more than usual.

But, as before, the radical solution to the problem lies only in returning control over the canals from the Seversky Donets and Dnieper and replacing the entire water supply system.


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Moscow hit by powerful tropical rain again
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A heavy downpour began again in Moscow on the evening of July 22. Eyewitnesses published footage from Red Square and other areas that were covered by the elements.

The city center is flooded the most. The rain is accompanied by sharp gusts of wind. The roads in Moscow are completely covered with water.

On the morning of July 22, leading specialist at the Phobos center Evgeny Tishkovets reported that the peak of showers in Moscow had passed and the next rains were expected to be less intense. The capital is expected to see short-term rains with an intensity of up to 8 mm, a thunderstorm is possible, the forecaster noted in his Telegram channel.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, heavy rainfall in Moscow and the Moscow region occurred on July 21. In some areas of the capital, a month's worth of precipitation fell at night and in the morning. The ceiling of the Paveletskaya Plaza shopping and entertainment complex collapsed due to the heavy rainfall.

The downpour that hit Moscow was the most powerful in recorded history since the mid-19th century.

More from regnum.ru
Meteorologist: Moscow is experiencing serious climate change

Serious climate changes are taking place in the Russian capital. This was stated by the leading specialist of the Meteonovosti news agency Tatyana Pozdnyakova.

"In mid-July, Moscow is experiencing a new climate regime for the region. It is characterized by high humidity and periods of heat, alternating with tropical showers. Thus, from 9:00 p.m. on July 21 to 10:00 a.m. on July 22, the VDNKh weather station recorded humidity levels exceeding 90%," the expert told the Moscow city news agency.

According to the weather forecaster, a tropical downpour hit a number of Moscow districts this afternoon — about 50 mm of precipitation fell in an hour, which exceeds the climatic norm by tens of times. The expert emphasized that local summer showers are an unpredictable phenomenon. A cloud no more than 5–10 km in diameter can cause intense short-term rain. Thus, in Kuntsevo and Krylatskoye on July 22, about 50 mm of precipitation fell in an hour.

"This picture has been observed in the capital for several weeks, which indicates a stable trend towards climate change. In general, the weather in Moscow and Central Russia is now increasingly acquiring the features of southern tropical regions, which leads to an increase in the number of storms and showers with large amounts of precipitation," Pozdnyakova explained.

She added that tropical downpours are characterized by very high intensity. Such a flow of water quickly fills the streets and it takes much longer to eliminate the consequences of such heavy rainfall.


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#1  Could be that people in Siberia might welcome a little climate change.
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A 6.5 magnitude earthquake has occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kamchatka
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 occurred in Avacha Bay in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kamchatka. This was reported on Tuesday, July 22, by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Kamchatka Krai.

“Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsk felt it with a force of up to four points,” the department’s Telegram channel says.

The tremors occurred 170 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, their center was at a depth of 51 km. There were no reports of casualties or damage, and no tsunami threat was announced.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on Sunday, July 20, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kamchatka. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a depth of 20 km, and in some areas of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky they were felt with a force of up to three points.

Earlier that day, a tsunami threat was declared in Kamchatka after a series of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. The regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that these waves will not be high, but it is necessary to leave the coast and it is not allowed to approach it to observe the tsunami - it is unsafe.


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Ukrainian forces are keeping Kamenskoye under fire control
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Ukrainian units are purposefully regrouping: they allow the enemy to advance to certain positions, after which they inflict fire damage.

In the Zaporizhzhya direction, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue a maneuverable defensive operation in the area of the settlement of Kamyanskoye. The situation in this area remains dynamic. This was reported by the representative of the operational command South Vladislav Voloshin on television.

"The defensive operation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces is currently ongoing in Kamyanske, and it is rather premature to say that any results have already been achieved, because the situation is changing quite dynamically. Just a few days ago, the publication (Institute for the Study of War - ed.) reported that we had lost some positions, lost a settlement, but I want to declare that we are conducting a defensive operation and conducting a maneuverable defense," Voloshin noted.

According to him, Ukrainian units are purposefully regrouping: they allow the enemy to advance to certain positions, after which they inflict fire damage.

"There (Kamyanskoye - ed.) the enemy actually destroyed all the shelters, fortifications, and there was nowhere to hold them, and in order to reduce losses, we had to retreat to the flanks, deep into the defense. But we are keeping this settlement under fire control, and the enemy is currently using the so-called "infiltration" tactic - these are not assaults by small groups of infantry, but simply attempts to enter there one or two people at a time and gain a foothold, hold on. We are destroying those who enter this settlement, using all available weapons - in particular, our UAV operators are working quite productively," Voloshin said.

Let us recall that 75 combat clashes have occurred on the front since the beginning of the day. More than half of the Russian attacks are aimed at Pokrovsk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.


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176 battles on the front, about a third of them in the Pokrovsky direction
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] The defense forces struck five areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment and two missile forces and artillery installations of the Russian invaders.

Tetyana Boyarchuk


The 1245th day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. In total, 176 combat clashes were recorded over the past day.

The General Staff reported this.

According to updated information, yesterday the enemy launched two missile strikes with 25 missiles and 74 air strikes on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements, dropped 122 guided aerial bombs, and engaged 3,832 kamikaze drones. The enemy also carried out 5,387 artillery attacks, including 56 from multiple launch rocket systems.

The enemy carried out airstrikes, in particular on the areas of the settlements of Lobkove, Stepnohirsk, Primorske, and Bilenke in Zaporizhia region; Kozatske in Kherson region, and the city of Sumy.

Over the past day, the missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces have struck five areas of concentration of personnel, weapons, and military equipment and two missile troops and artillery facilities of the Russian invaders.

In the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions over the past day, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 22 attacks by the invaders. The enemy also launched eight air strikes, using twelve guided aerial bombs, and carried out 318 shelling, five of which were from multiple rocket launchers.

In the South Slobozhansk direction, the enemy tried in vain six times to advance in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Kamyanka, Stroivka, Zapadne, and Kutkivka.

Seven attacks by the invaders took place in the Kupyansk direction yesterday. The defense forces repelled the enemy's assault actions in the areas of Golubivka, Kupyansk, Pishchany, Zagryzovy, Zeleny Gay and towards Boguslavka.

Twenty-three combat engagements took place in the Lymansky direction. The enemy tried to advance near the settlements of Novyi Mir, Karpivka, Kolodyazi, Yampolivka, Torske and towards the settlements of Serebryanka, Seredne, Shandryholove, and Hryhorivka.

In the Siversky direction, our troops repelled three enemy attacks in the areas of Serebryanka, Verkhnyokamyansky, and Pereyzny.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy carried out six attacks in the area of Bila Hora and towards Predtechyny.

Over the past day, in the Torets direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units of the defenders 11 times in the areas of Diliivka, Romanivka, Toretsk, Oleksandro-Kalynovye, Novospassky, and towards Katerynivka and Pleshchiivka.

In the Pokrovske direction, over the past 24 hours, our defenders stopped 57 assault actions of the aggressor near the settlements of Popiv Yar, Volodymyrivka, Novotoretske, Mykolaivka, Udachne, Novoekonomichne, Lysivka, Zvirovo in the direction of Novoukrainka, Pokrovske, Dachny, Myrnograd, and Mayak.

In the Novopavlivske direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 18 attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Zirka, Piddubne, Myrne, Shevchenko, Dachne and towards the settlements of Novokhatske, Temyrivka, Oleksandrograd, Voskresenka. There were no combat clashes in the Hulyaipil direction over the past day.

In the Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled three attacks in the Kamyanske area.

In the Dnieper direction, enemy units tried to advance four times - but were unsuccessful.

No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions.

Our soldiers inflict significant losses on the occupation forces in manpower and equipment, and actively undermine the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.

In total, the losses of the Russian invaders over the past day amounted to 1,090 people. Ukrainian soldiers also neutralized one tank, seven armored combat vehicles, 43 artillery systems, one multiple launch rocket system, 256 operational-tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, 18 missiles, one heavy flamethrower system, 94 units of automobiles and one unit of special equipment of the invaders.


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#1  I read Pokrovsky has functionally fallen with Russia occupying all the higher ground and vantage points.

Read UKR Defenses are collapsing with Russia making a lot of gains.
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Azerbaijan has arrested and charged former Wagner mercenaries for crimes committed in Ukraine
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…Wagner’s Project-K pipeline to fight in Ukraine. They now face charges under Azerbaijan’s laws against mercenary and terrorist activities.

Source: Euromaidan

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Current information on the situation on the front line on July 22 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 20:54 Ministry of Defense (Russian Federation):

Servicemen of the 34th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Sever group destroyed military equipment and disrupted the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Sumy region.

A calculation of the "West" troop group carried out a precise strike on an M-113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.

Servicemen of the Vostok group destroyed a towed American M198 howitzer in the South Donetsk direction.

20:04 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the naval infantry destroyed targets on the right bank of the Dnieper.

19:32 Attack aircraft of the 35th Separate Guards Volgograd-Kiev Orders of Lenin, Suvorov and Kuzov Red Banner Motorized Rifle Brigade. Unit of the Center group successfully knocked out the enemy from a powerful fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsky) direction.

18:17 Powerful blow inflicted at the Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in the Kirovograd region

🪖The guardsmen carried out an operation to clear out a complex defense system, including dugouts and camouflaged firing points.

Under the cover of artillery and drones, our soldiers approached the enemy fortifications and, using special ammunition, destroyed the enemy's shelters.

16:49 A crew of an FPV drone on fiber optics from the West group of forces destroyed a pickup truck of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region, and operators of attack UAVs from the North group of forces hit a howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region, –video.

16:42 Zaporizhia direction. Fighters of the 5th Army occupied two strongholds south of Temirovka, –MAP.

15:06 On frames: Under objective control, UAV operators from the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade destroyed six enemy pickups in different areas of the Sumy Front.

14:02 Artillerymen are covering the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 220mm BM-27 Uragan rockets in the area of the settlement of Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region, –video.

12:56 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of July 22, 2025

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.

Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position. Manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault brigades, airborne assault and assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Ryzhevka, Yunakovka, Khrapovshchina, Varachino, Sadki and Kondratovka in Sumy Oblast.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Gatishche and Melove in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 130 servicemen, three vehicles, four artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.

Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Osinovo, Petrovpavlovka and Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 210 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, including a U.S.-made MaxxPro armored vehicle, 16 vehicles and two field artillery guns. Three electronic warfare stations and eight ammunition depots were destroyed.

The units of the "Southern" group of troops took up more advantageous lines and positions. The manpower and equipment of five mechanized, mountain assault, and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Kleban-Byk, Zvanovka, Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, and Shcherbinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost up to 215 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, including a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, five pickup trucks and an artillery piece. An electronic warfare station and five ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the Center group of forces actively liberated the settlement of Novotoretskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Formations of two mechanized, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Pershe Travnya, Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskoye, Udachnoye, Poltavka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Filiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 365 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, two cars, as well as six field artillery pieces, including the 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Braveheart" made in Great Britain.

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. The manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Velikomikhailovka, Maliyevka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Zeleny Gai in the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 195 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, seven cars, an artillery piece and an ammunition depot.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Pridneprovskoye and Pervomayskoye in the Kherson region.

Up to 65 servicemen, five vehicles, a field artillery gun, five electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged storage depots and assembly shops for unmanned aerial vehicles, training facilities for pilots of unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian formations, nationalists and foreign mercenaries in 143 districts.

Air defense systems shot down two long-range Neptune guided missiles, as well as 259 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

664 aircraft,

283 helicopters,

71,722 unmanned aerial vehicles,

622 anti-aircraft missile systems,

24,297 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,

1,577 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,

27,710 field artillery pieces and mortars,

38,560 units of special military vehicles.

12:42 Units of the "Center" group of forces are actively involved in operations released the settlement of Novotoretskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.

12:33 Russian troops have entered Torskoye again, –MAP.

11:47 Ministry of Defense RF:

UAV crews of the Nevsky Volunteer Brigade of the Southern group of troops supported the advance of assault groups in the Chasovo-Yarsk direction.

Operators of attack UAVs of the Stavropol paratroopers destroyed command posts and an armored vehicle "Kozak" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region.

10:14 Rosgvardia special forces destroyed a German armored recovery vehicle and a 122mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, supporting the offensive in the Sumy region –VIDEO

09:44 Harpy UAV crews destroyed temporary deployment points and motor vehicles of the 104th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Orlovka in the Sumy region.

08:46 Artillerymen of the "Center" group destroyed enemy UAV control point in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

A 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crew attacked a building housing an enemy FPV drone crew.

07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:

Advance in the area of the settlement Prohody

Expansion of the control zone north of Yablonovka

Advance west of the settlement of Belaya Gora➡️

Control zone in Zverevo has been expanded➡️

Russian Armed Forces storm Poltava➡️

Varacino liberated

Expansion of the control zone in Malaya Tokmachka

Clarification of the control zone in Kondratovka in favor of the enemy

07:12 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyedand 35 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted:

Nine over the territory of the Bryansk region,
Seven over the territory of the Rostov region,
Six over the territory of the Kaluga region,
Three over the territory of the Samara region,
Three over the territory of the Moscow region,
Three over the territory of the Tula region,
Two over the territory of the Belgorod region,
One over the territory of the Kursk region,
One over the waters of the Black Sea.


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'Dragon's Teeth' in Two Rows. The Ukrainian forces are Building a Defense Line Far from the Front
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Adamov

[REGNUM] The Ukrainian army is actively increasing the pace of construction of new defensive lines. Military analysts studying satellite images published by commercial companies have drawn attention to the progress of the work.

The new line consists of two defensive lines located 10-15 kilometers apart. The first line, in turn, is created approximately 10 km from the current line of defense.

On flat areas, barriers are created with several rows of barbed wire or "razor wire", which makes it difficult for infantry and mobile equipment to move.

The defensive line also includes two or three anti-tank ditches, reinforced with concrete barriers called “dragon’s teeth”.

In this case, the barriers are connected with steel cables and also wrapped with wire to make it difficult for sappers and engineering equipment to work.

The enemy is also creating fortified shelters from drones for infantry soldiers and is trying to use the terrain to its advantage, military expert Alexander Romanenko explained to Regnum News Agency.

Initially, the Ukrainian Armed Forces began preparing for defense by creating a second, that is, more distant from the front line, line of defense, and by mid-July they had practically completed its construction.

Then work began much closer to the front line.

But still outside the main settlements of the northern part of Donbass, which still remain under the control of Ukrainian troops.

WHERE THEY BUILD
The scale of the line being created is impressive: fortifications stretch from the Kharkiv region (from the area of the city of Izyum) to the south - all the way to the Zaporizhia region. A number of analysts believe that Kyiv is considering the possibility of withdrawing from some of the existing defensive lines in the Donbas.

According to information that has appeared on the Internet, active work is underway to the west of the city of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk in Ukrainian terminology). The defensive line consists of anti-tank ditches, concrete barriers and so-called "dragon's teeth", trenches and ditches.

Barrier lines are also being built in the rear of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.

Special attention during construction is paid to the city of Dobropolye, which has become a major logistics hub over the past six months. Military transport from the Kharkov region to Krasnoarmeysk and Slavyansk passes through it.

As Russian troops advanced in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, several lines of trenches were dug around Dobropolye.

At the same time, some of the defensive structures already extend beyond the Donbass and are located in the territories of the Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions. This region is characterized by a predominantly flat terrain, without large settlements.

"There is a section at the junction of the borders of the DPR and Dnipropetrovsk region, in the area of the village of Shevchenko. Analysis of maps shows that there is swampy, difficult terrain there. The enemy takes and builds fortifications in such a way that the flank is covered by this section. This is just a local example," Romanenko points out.

The main, more distant line of defense extends from the northern borders of the Donbass all the way to Kharkov. Behind it are several small settlements — Velykyi Burluk, Shevchenkove, and Izyum — that could be converted into “fortress cities.”

WHY ARE THEY BUILDING?
A version is put forward: the very fact of creating defensive lines in the deep rear indicates that the Ukrainian command is allowing a retreat from several cities of the DPR: Seversk, Krasny Liman and Dimitrov (Mirnograd), Konstantinovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka.

However, this does not mean that Kiev has decided to leave its positions without a fight, military expert and reserve officer Alexander Mikhailovsky suggested in a commentary to IA Regnum. He is skeptical about the above-formulated version that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command is allowing a quick retreat.

"It is highly unlikely that they were going to flee somewhere. There were no prerequisites or precedents for this. Why are they building so far away? Engineering work near the front, within range of artillery and tactical drones, is suicide. They would like to do it closer, perhaps, but there is no opportunity," the expert believes.

However, the work can be considered a sign that the option of retreat as such is being considered in principle, Mikhailovsky added. Although Kyiv has previously repeatedly declared its readiness to fight to the last. The Ukrainian Armed Forces still have two lines of defense directly in Donbas.

The first is the Krasnoarmeyskaya agglomeration, which has been prepared for assault for the past sixty months. The second is the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, to which we can add the cities of Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka, located to the south, with their industrial zones and residential areas.

Even despite the gradual subsidence of the front line in Donbas, the enemy can impose heavy urban battles, similar to how the defense of Mariupol, Avdiivka, Artemovsk and other "fortress cities" was organized. On the other hand, over the years of military actions, Russian troops have already perfected the tactics of encircling and blocking enemy garrisons, which is forcing Kyiv to change its plans.

Since it will be problematic to hold the front in such conditions, the enemy is trying to change the landscape in its favor in advance, so to speak. However, the prospects for this enterprise are dubious, Mikhailovsky believes.

"The fate of all defensive lines, starting with the Maginot Line, the Siegfried Line or the Mannerheim Line, is that they are eventually broken through. The Ukrainian conflict is no exception. There was already the Poroshenko Line, also planned as a reserve fortification system approximately 20 kilometers from the then demarcation line. Our troops "jumped" over it. Why? An ABC truth: castles are not guarded by walls, but by people on the walls. And there are no people. The new Zelensky Line may suffer the same fate," the expert adds.

WHY THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES ARE GOING INTO DEEP DEFENSE
Let us recall that during the SVO, the enemy already tried to stop the Russian offensive by creating a defensive line. In 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces relied on defensive nodes - Krasnoarmeysk, Kurakhovo and Slavyansk/Kramatorsk. A year later, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Kurakhovo, and Krasnoarmeysk is semi-encircled.

If the defensive line has slowed the pace of the Russian advance, it has done so only slightly. According to analysts, since the beginning of 2025, the Russian Armed Forces have liberated an area of 2,395 square kilometers, which is larger than some small European states.

At the same time, a significant acceleration in the pace of the offensive is noted: for comparison, over the entire last year, Russian troops occupied 3,388 square kilometers. If the trend continues, the Ukrainian Armed Forces may leave more than 4 thousand square kilometers by the end of this year.

In June alone, the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned about twenty settlements. It is noted that the main reason for such losses is the lack of personnel. The Ukrainian command is forced to allocate detachments of 5-10 people to defend small settlements. If similar methods are used to organize the defense of the "Zelensky line", its assault will become a much simpler task.

"The main conclusion: if the enemy goes into deep defense, it means that he is giving up the initiative and, most likely, is not planning to attack. Otherwise, these resources would be used for other purposes. They will not surrender Donbass without a fight, that would be strange, but they will not try to recapture the lost positions either, and that would be almost an admission of defeat," Alexander Romanenko sums up.

As of mid-July, Russian troops continue the operation to encircle Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka, after which they will be able to switch to blocking the Slavyansk agglomeration, which means that in the coming months the "Zelensky line" will face a test of strength. But if the enemy prefers to send reinforcements to new equipped positions, instead of the existing "inconvenient" front line, Krasnoarmeysk and other cities will repeat the fate of Avdiivka in the foreseeable future.


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Negotiations in Istanbul. Expectations
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] According to the announced negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Istanbul.

1. New exchanges of prisoners of war will be negotiated.

2. Agreement will be reached on the new transfer of the troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Ukraine.

3. No meeting between Putin and Zelensky will be agreed upon.

4. A single agreed memorandum is not expected.

5. The war will not end in the 50 days announced by Trump.

6. There will be another round of negotiations in August. And then in September, etc.

Such expectations.

But if ours is still changed, then in any case there is a benefit from it. Well, the corpses of the Armed Forces have to be put somewhere.

More from regnum.ru
US does not intend to strictly adhere to the stated deadlines for a settlement in Ukraine

Washington does not view the September deadline set by US President Donald Trump as a hard benchmark for introducing new sanctions in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. This was stated on July 22 by US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

"I would be more careful: when the president talks about a time period, he could be talking about any part of it, we have already seen this on one occasion. At the same time, if real negotiations are underway, things will move forward, then everything can change quickly," she said during a briefing.

Bruce added that the schedule could be adjusted depending on the progress of the dialogue between the parties.

Earlier, a State Department representative confirmed that the US maintains direct contacts between Moscow and Kiev.

Trump said on July 14 that the United States could impose 100% import tariffs on Russia and its trading partners if a deal on the Ukrainian conflict is not reached within 50 days. In addition, the head of the White House suggested that the agreed arms supplies to Ukraine with the EU would speed up the process of concluding a peace agreement.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, on July 22 gave the order to form a negotiating group for dialogue with the Russian side. As before, Rustem Umerov, who held the post of head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine until July 17 and is now the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, was appointed the head of the delegation.

Earlier, Zelensky announced plans to hold new talks in Turkey on July 23. According to a number of Russian media outlets, Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul could take place on July 24 or 25.


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'On sanctions'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram age of Alexey Drobinin

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics
.
[ColonelCassad] Director of the Department of Foreign Policy Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the goals of the Western sanctions campaign against the Russian Federation.

About sanctions Recently, the European Union introduced the 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions, and the US Congress has prepared or is still preparing the sanctions "Graham-Blumental bill". It has long been unclear what goals are pursued by those in Brussels and Washington engaged in sanctions policy.

Either they want to hit the Russian economy or the economy of Russia's partner countries.

Either they want to "leave the opportunity to finance the war in Ukraine", or "force negotiations", or simply "punish" Russia for independence.

Either they want to crush the interests of Russian economic operators, or decision-makers, or to provoke a popular revolt.

The statements of officials, parliamentarians and politicians accumulate like a snowball, often contradicting each other. For the sake of a thought experiment, let's go back to the moment when everything more or less began.

Here are selected quotes from American and European officials in 2014, who explained why and why anti-Russian sanctions are being introduced "for the annexation of Crimea": Sanctions are not considered a punitive measure, but are aimed at changing the policy or actions of the target country, organizations or individuals.

Measures are always aimed at policy or activity, the means of its implementation and the persons responsible for it. The EU makes every effort to minimize the negative consequences for the civilian population and for legal activities. (Official statement of the Council of the EU, Brussels, April 29, 2014)

* * *

So, as you know, we focused on individual sanctions against those who participate either in the development or in the implementation of policy — in particular, the seizure of Crimea and aggression in the east. The USA also expanded this list, including those who finance and support the president and his staff — that is, people close to him.

Now we are talking about the fact that if the elections are disrupted or we see the further movement of Russian troops into the territory of Ukraine, we will have to go to the so-called "surgical sectoral sanctions". ( Viktoria Nuland, US Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, at a briefing in Luxembourg, May 13, 2014)

* * *

The goal of the US is not to cause harm to the Russian people, but to change the course of the Russian leadership in relation to Ukraine. (Victoria Nuland, US Deputy Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, congressional hearing, May 8, 2014) So, the original purpose of the sanctions, according to their initiators, was to force Russia to change its foreign policy, primarily in the Ukrainian direction. The result is zero or the opposite of what was intended.

But this does not prevent Americans and Europeans from ignoring reality and continuing to believe that if they push even harder, Russia will break and change course.

It is not our business to believe in it.

The consequences, obviously, will be completely different.

However, the persistence of the West in carrying out sanctions policy has to be taken into account.

Today, predictions that the maximum possible set of unilateral restrictive measures will be introduced against Russia, meaning a complete severance of direct trade and economic ties with the Western community, do not seem detached from life. It is also impossible to ignore the possibility that, in pursuit of the illusory goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the Ukrainian battlefield, sooner or later the West will use against our country all the types of weapons it has, with the exception of non-conventional ones.

Hard to disagree. I have been writing since 2022 that everything below the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons can and will be used in Ukraine.

At the moment, almost all the conventional steps on the escalation stage have already been taken, not counting the few remaining types of missiles.



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