[Korrespondent] 22:46 Zelensky, in an evening video message, commented on the strikes on the Antonovsky bridge and other crossings in the Kherson region: "Of course, they will all be rebuilt, but by us. We are doing everything to ensure that the invaders do not have any logistical opportunities on our land. Whatever they had no plans - we will break them. And we will liberate our territory with military, diplomatic and all other available tools until we reach the legal borders of Ukraine."
The President also announced "very important political and diplomatic events scheduled for the second half of this week."
21:43 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced that in the first half of 2022 almost 530 thousand citizens of Ukraine entered and were registered in Russia. Another 33 thousand, according to Russian statistics, pass as citizens of the "LDNR". At the same time, according to the agency, Ukraine is in third place in terms of the number of migrants: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are ahead by a significant margin.
21:24 German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that German tanks are the worst in Europe, as the continent has been cutting defense spending for decades and was built to live in peace.
21:02 Ukraine will destroy military facilities on the territory of Russia, if there is such a need, Danilov said on the air of the telethon: "If necessary, believe me, no one's hand will waver to sign what needs to be signed so that those objects about which "You say they were destroyed. Moreover, the statement of our president that we will give an answer exactly on the territories where this comes from is a vivid confirmation of this."
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council also said that international partners are delighted with how quickly and efficiently the Ukrainian military mastered new military equipment. According to him, this is the opinion of the United States, Great Britain and a number of other partners.
20:41 Putin expressed his desire to establish in the Russian Federation the production of Bayraktar combat drones, which have become one of the symbols of Ukrainian resistance to Russian military aggression. Such an unexpected statement by Erdogan was circulated by the Turkish media against the backdrop of reports of an upcoming meeting in Sochi. About what could be behind him - in the material Putin wants to build Bayraktar .
20:13 The first ships can pass through the "grain corridor" in the next two weeks, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in an interview with Bloomberg. According to him, ships leaving the ports of Odessa will enter the Black Sea along the route determined by the Ukrainian side. After entering Turkish waters, they will continue to be tracked. Upon arrival in Istanbul, the ships will be inspected. The same procedure will apply to ships departing towards the Black Sea ports.
19:49 The Russians tried to conduct assault operations in the direction of Belogorovka-Verkhnekamensky and in the village of Berestovo, but suffered losses and retreated, the General Staff said in the evening report .
19:26 Slovenia will provide equipment for demining the liberated territories of Ukraine and help rebuild the country, in particular Kharkiv, Kuleba said.
18:47 According to Ukrainian military intelligence, today in Kherson, as a result of partisans blowing up the car of the so-called "police" at the intersection of Repin Street and Admiral Senyavin Avenue with the help of a radio-controlled mine, one "policeman" was killed, another was hospitalized.
18:23 The Czech government has agreed to help Slovakia protect its airspace after the decommissioning of MiG-29 fighters. Earlier, Bratislava did not exclude the possibility of their transfer to Ukraine. In addition, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala admitted the possibility of training the Ukrainian military in the Czech Republic: "If necessary, we will train the Ukrainian military, but it depends on the technologies that we will have here."
17:49 The Verkhovna Rada with 299 votes supported the appointment of Andrey Kostin, deputy from the Servant of the People party, as the new Prosecutor General. His predecessor, Irina Venediktova, was also a member of the ruling party, so Kostin followed the beaten track. Read more about him in the article What is known about the new Prosecutor General .
17:42 The leader of the "DPR" Denis Pushilin arrived in Belarusian Brest, accompanied by Secretary of the General Council of United Russia Andrey Turchak and Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov. After laying flowers at the Brest Fortress memorial, he said that "today the time has come to liberate Russian cities once again, founded by Russian people: Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Lutsk."
17:39 The OP showed what the fortifications on the border of the Volyn region and Belarus look like. They installed cameras with thermal imagers through which you can monitor the border section online.
17:29 The IRIS-T air defense systems will be delivered to Ukraine by the end of this year, said Christiane Hofmann, deputy spokesman for the German government. The German Defense Ministry clarified that at first it was only about the supply of one missile system. This is due to the limited capacity of the military industry, which has been shrinking in recent years due to lack of demand.
17:02 Slovenia is preparing a new package of military assistance for Ukraine, the country's Foreign Minister Tanya Fayon said at a press conference in Kiev.
16:52 Over the eight years of the occupation of Crimea, more than 34,000 residents of the peninsula were forced into military service in the Russian army, said the head of the Crimean prosecutor's office, Igor Ponochevny. At the same time, he believes that the Crimeans, forcibly drafted into the Russian army or illegal military formations, are victims of the war, and not criminals, if it is only about this, and they did not commit other crimes.
16:27 The German federal government secretly approved the sale of 100 Panzerhaubitze2000 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine for 1.7 billion euros, writes Der Spiegel. This volume will significantly exceed previous arms deliveries in the amount of about 600 million euros, the newspaper notes. At the same time, it is not yet clear when the first howitzers will arrive in Ukraine. It is expected that the production of all howitzers will take several years.
16:06 The Philippine government canceled a deal to purchase 16 Russian military transport helicopters worth $227 million due to fears of sanctions, writes Associated Press.
15:51 In Bakhmut, rescuers pulled out the body of another person from under the rubble. Thus, the bodies of two dead have already been removed from under the rubble, one person has been rescued from under the rubble, three people have been injured. Work continues, the State Emergency Service said.
15:35 In Kherson, an explosive device went off on the way of a police car, two employees were injured, Vladimir Saldo, the "head of administration" of the region, told the Russian media.
15:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered another blow to the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson, which is the most important crossing for supplying the Russian army on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region. The bridge is now completely closed to traffic. In the Armed Forces of Ukraine they say that they are not destroying infrastructure, but the plans of the enemy. Read more in the material Welcome to the cauldron .
14:57 The Rada has banned for the period of martial law the enforcement of decisions on the recovery of debt from an individual for housing and communal services.
14:34 Lithuania has banned the entry of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, BNS reports with reference to the country's Interior Ministry. Kirill was blacklisted on June 23, so far this has not been publicly announced.
14:21 In Zaporozhye, a monument to Pushkin was dismantled, the City Council reported. The wrought copper bust stood in the city for more than 20 years, it was removed the night before with the permission of the mayor's office. The City Council clarified that the monument will be stored in a certain place, which is not disclosed, its future fate will be announced when a decision is made.
13:58 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the launch of a regular ferry Yeysk - Mariupol. The line will be used to deliver goods "for the restoration of the infrastructure of Mariupol and other settlements of the DPR and LPR." Today, the first car-passenger ferry Lavrentiy left Yeysk in the direction of Mariupol. It can accommodate up to 700 tons of cargo, including up to 20 trucks and more than 130 passengers, and will initially make one round trip per day.
13:33 For the period of recovery after the strikes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Antonovsky bridge near Kherson, traffic across the Dnieper will be organized with the help of ferry crossings, said Kirill Stremousov, the "deputy head" of the occupied Kherson region. According to him, traffic on the bridge is planned to be restored in the near future.
13:29 The United States warned Russia of a "quick and strict" response in the event of the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine, the American embassy in Kiev said: "We know the next step of Russia. Russia is laying the foundation for the annexation of the Ukrainian territory it occupies, which is a direct violation of the sovereignty of Ukraine. If Russia continues with its annexation plans, we will respond quickly and sternly along with our allies and partners."
13:24 The Rada supported the appointment of Andriy Kostin as Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
13:19 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a counteroffensive in the Nikolaev region, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said at a briefing: "The situation in the region is under control, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a counteroffensive and quite effectively carry out a fire defeat. We all see this by hits on the Antonovsky Bridge."
13:10 "The head" of the occupied Kherson region, collaborator Vladimir Saldo, confirmed Girkin's information that, in addition to the Antonovsky bridge, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also hit the railway bridge across the Dnieper. At the same time, he claims that there will be no problems with the supply of the regional center.
12:59 Poland buys about a thousand tanks, more than 600 artillery systems and dozens of fighter jets from South Korea. The Polish Ministry of Defense announced that some of this equipment will replace the equipment transferred to Ukraine. Warsaw expects the first 180 tanks to arrive this year.
12:53 A joint coordination center will be opened in Istanbul today to control the export of Ukrainian grain, Reuters writes. According to a high-ranking Turkish official, the first ship will leave the Black Sea ports of Ukraine in the next few days.
12:44 Russia has released a "guidebook for the citizens of Ukraine on organizing resistance to the Kiev puppet government." According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Moscow Region, the 14-page publication provides detailed "advice" on sabotaging work in almost all socially significant areas. The reference book is full of propaganda of hatred for everything Ukrainian (“the villagers who broke through to Kyiv form a new reality”) with the appropriate set of terminology: “Kyiv junta”, “puppet government”, “Nazis”, etc.
12:23 In Mariupol, every fifth hospitalized person dies. As Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, said, over the past week, 36 Mariupol residents died in the smallest ambulance hospital in the city, on average, 170 people are being treated. That is, at least 20% of all patients die in a week in the hospital. The average age of the dead is 60 years.
Andryushchenko noted that before the war, the mortality rate in hospitals in Mariupol did not exceed 5%. So, with a 4-5 times decrease in the population, mortality from natural causes has already increased five times and continues to grow.
12:05 Major General Dmitry Marchenko, who led the defense of Nikolaev until April, returned to the city, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. Earlier, Marchenko said that the Crimean bridge would become the main goal of Ukraine after receiving new Western weapons. Media reports that now Marchenko will carry out tasks in the Nikolaev and Kherson regions.
12:02 Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanya Fayon said that she had arrived in Kiev on a visit "to express Slovenia's political and practical support to Ukraine and its courageous people."
11:53 Russians this morning fired at Bakhmut of the Donetsk region, including hitting the hotel. As Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said, according to preliminary information, there are dead and wounded, and the rescue operation continues.
The State Emergency Service specified that one person was saved, another remains under the rubble.
11:29 In the Nikolaev area because of hit of enemy ammunition and fragments from them there was a fire as a result of which 230 hectares of a crop of wheat near the village are destroyed. Kotlyarevo of the Shevchenkovsky community of the Nikolaev area, reported the State Emergency Service. For the same reason, a field with barley burned on an area of 4 hectares near the village. Kotlyarovo, wheat on an area of 2.5 hectares near the village. Estuaries of the Galitsyn community of the Nikolaevsky district, dry grass on a total area of more than 1.5 hectares outside the village of Bereznegovatoe, Bashtansky district. In addition, outbuildings in the village were burned twice. Spring on an area of 35 sq. m and s. Shevchenkovo on an area of 150 sq. m, as well as a car at one of the enterprises of Nikolaev.
10:58 Kiev journalist Oleksandr Savochenko died in the battles near Bakhmut, CHEline reports. He worked for STB, for the French news agency France-Presse and for Suspіlny.
10:47 British intelligence reported that the Russian PMC Wagner succeeded in a tactical offensive in the Donbass in the area of the Uglegorsk thermal power plant and the nearby village of Novoluganskoye. Some Ukrainian forces are likely to have already withdrawn from the area, analysts say.
10:43 Korostenskaya RVA reported that the explosions in the city are military exercises that coincided with an air raid.
10:18 Podolyak about the shelling of the Antonovsky bridge: “A rare bird will fly out of the middle of the Dnieper. You can, of course, call the Antonovsky bridge a Russian air defense system that intercepts Ukrainian missiles, but you won’t get away from reality: the occupiers should learn to swim across the Dnieper. Or leave Kherson until there is a possibility. There may not be a third warning."
10:07 Explosions thundered in Korosten, Zhytomyr region, said the head of the Korosten RVA, Yuriy Tarasyuk.
10:05 Nord Stream gas supplies have been reduced to about 20% of the pipe's capacity, German operator Gascade said.
09:44 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 27. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog direction.
- personnel - about 40,070 (+200) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1738 (+1),
- armored combat vehicles - 3971 (+12),
- artillery systems - 883 (+3),
- MLRS - 258 (+0),
- air defense systems - 117 (+0),
- aircraft - 222 (+0),
- helicopters - 190 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 726 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 174 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2847 (+12),
- special equipment - 75 (+0).
09:21 In the Donetsk region, the Karlovskaya filtration station has been de-energized due to hostilities, Pokrovsk Mayor Ruslan Trebushkin said. The water supply was stopped until the completion of the repair work.
08:58 The press secretary of the Pivden operational command, Natalia Gumenyuk, confirmed the strikes on the Antonovsky Bridge on the air of the telethon: “We are destroying not the infrastructure, but the plans of the enemy. The work of our artillery is so delicate and jewelry that it is more aimed at demoralizing the troops. Yes, there were strikes but they were filigree."
08:56 Zelensky submitted to the Rada a draft resolution on the appointment of Andrei Kostin to the post of Prosecutor General.
08:53 As a result of the shelling of the Industrial District of Kharkiv, six people were injured, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. Also in the morning, the Russians fired at the Novobavarsky district - there were no casualties and no fire, but the windows in a residential building were shattered.
08:51 Russians since morning fired at Nikolaev, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. The blows fell on the industrial zone and the repair enterprise, the building and private transport were also damaged. Previously without victims and victims.
08:49 Iran has agreed to supply parts and equipment for aircraft to Russia - the corresponding agreement has already been signed, said Mirakbar Razavi, a spokesman for Iran's civil aviation department.
08:28 In the Donetsk region over the past day, one civilian in Seversk was killed from Russian shelling, another person was injured, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
08:17 Traffic on the Antonovsky bridge is blocked after the attack of the Ukrainian troops , said the "deputy head of the administration" of the occupied Kherson region Kirill Stremousov. At the same time, he assured that this would not affect the lives of civilians: "the military created crossings, pontoon bridges."
08:09 In the Kharkiv direction, the Russians have built pontoon crossings, they are trying to improve the logistics of the units. The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the Russians in the Kramatorsk direction and in the Kherson region, the Geshtab reported in the morning report .
07:19 Russian troops fired at night from Gradov and cannon artillery at the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. In Marganets, Nikopol district, one person was injured, eight five-story buildings, a hospital, a kindergarten and transport of an industrial enterprise were damaged. In Velikaya Kostromka, Zelenodolsk community, a power line was damaged, the village was partially without electricity.
05:42 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that at 4:25 Russians fired at the Industrial District of the city with two S-300 missiles. According to the preliminary information of the rescuers, there were no victims.
04:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that Russia is aiming to seize more territories of Ukraine before holding "referendums" and annexation. The Russian-backed occupying "authority" in the occupied territories is likely to be pushing for time limits for military purposes in order to support fast-track annexation terms, although Russian troops are unlikely to occupy significant additional territory in Ukraine before the said annexation deadline begins in the first half of September.
Over the past day, Russian troops have captured insignificant territories northeast of Bakhmut and continue fighting east and south of Bakhmut. Also, Russian forces made a limited attack northwest of Izyum, probably to secure Russian rear areas on the Izyum-Slavyansk line. In the north-west of the Kherson region, Russian troops concentrated on the defense of the occupied lines and made a limited ground assault. Ukrainian troops continued to strike at Russian logistics hubs in the Kherson region.
04:01 The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that he had a telephone conversation with Reznikov: "I assured him that we are working to deliver equipment to Ukraine as soon as possible to counter Russian aggression."
03:12 The Armed Forces of Ukraine finally liberated and cleared the village of Andreevka, Kherson region , from the occupiers, the Operational Command Pivden reported. The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted four strikes on the enemy using ground attack aircraft, bombers and helicopters. Four strongholds of the enemy in the area of Andreevka, Belogorka and Blagodatny were hit. The command added that a few days earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also "securedly secured their positions" in Lozovoe.