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2022-07-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 22nd, 2022
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:44 The Pentagon has begun a preliminary assessment of the possibility of transferring modern fighter jets to Ukraine, said John Kirby, coordinator of the US National Security Council for strategic communications. According to him, the US Department of Defense is conducting "a certain preliminary assessment of the feasibility of a potential provision of fighter jets to Ukraine." At the same time, a White House spokesman warned that this would not happen quickly, given how difficult these aircraft are to fly and maintain.
23:41 Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk said that today at a closed interdepartmental meeting they discussed the issue of criminal liability for obtaining a Russian passport in the occupied territories. According to her, work is underway on the relevant bill, discussions are still ahead.
23:21 The United States will not transfer ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km to Ukraine, which can be used in HIMARS systems, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: "There are certain things that, according to the US President, he is not ready to transfer, these include missiles long-range ATACMS, whose range is 300 km.
At the same time, Sullivan emphasized Biden's readiness to do everything possible to support Ukraine, but no less important goal of the president, according to him, is to prevent a world war.
22:57 Ukrainian military personnel in the UK will be trained not only by local specialists, but also by international partners - that is, military instructors from other countries, the press service of the British government said, commenting on the results of today's telephone conversation between Johnson and Zelensky. The report said that the UK is working to expand the training of "thousands" of Ukrainian troops.
22:25 Zelensky commented on the grain export agreement in an evening video message: "Today our state and the entire civilized world have reached an important agreement - there is an agreement that allows us to unblock Ukrainian ports. About 20 million tons of last year's grain harvest will be exported. This year's harvest will it is already being harvested - it will also be possible to sell it. This is the income of farmers, the entire agricultural sector and the state budget. These are jobs. We now already have grain worth about $10 billion."
22:03 Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front have significantly decreased this month, Zelensky told the WSJ. According to him, Ukraine now loses 30 people dead and about 250 wounded every day, despite the fact that at the peak of hostilities in May and June, the losses were from 100 to 200 soldiers per day. The President explained that this was due to the supply of more powerful Western weapons, because if earlier the invaders fired 12,000 artillery shells daily against 1-2 thousand shells of Ukraine, now Ukraine can fire about 6,000 shells a day.
21:51 The Russians fired at the residential quarters of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, with cluster munitions. According to Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, there are at least three wounded, as well as six damaged five-story buildings and several private houses.
21:22 Biden signed a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 270 million , said White House spokesman John Kirby, Politico journalist Lara Seligman reports. The package includes five more HIMARS, 580 Phoenix Ghost drones and 36,000 artillery shells , as well as anti-tank weapons.
20:57 Zelensky said that he had held telephone conversations with Johnson: "We talked about increasing the volume of training of Ukrainian soldiers in Britain and other versatile military cooperation. I received assurances that Britain's support for Ukraine remains powerful and unconditional."
20:35 Europol denied the smuggling of weapons from Ukraine and clarified that they had in mind a potential threat, and not specific cases: "Europol is working closely with Ukrainian officials to reduce the threat of arms trafficking in the European Union. We fully trust them, because they are implementing new measures to monitor and trace these firearms."
Europol said in a statement that a potential threat seen in war zones in the past is that firearms could fall into the wrong hands. But at the moment, such facts have not been recorded.
19:57 Ukraine is ready to help Moldova get rid of the Russian occupiers in the unrecognized Transnistria, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, said on the air of the telethon: "I support Moldova's desire to get rid of the occupying troops on its territory. And we, as a state and as a special service, will do everything to ensure that to help the fraternal state get rid of the occupiers on their land."
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not allow the enemy to advance in the direction of Pokrovsky in the Bakhmutsky direction, in the directions of Verkhnekamenskoye and Ivano-Daryevka in the Kramatorsk direction, and also repelled the assault in the directions of the villages of Veseloye and Vodyanoye, the General Staff reports in the evening report .
19:15 UN officials hope that the first shipments of grain from Ukrainian ports can begin as early as July 23, and expect to reach the pre-war level of exports of 5 million tons per month within a few weeks, writes The Guardian. According to UN officials, there is hope that the agreement will ensure the passage of grain and essential goods such as sunflower oil from three Ukrainian ports, including Odessa.
The deal also aims to ensure the safe passage of Russian-made fertilizers amid efforts to alleviate the global food crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
18:33 Zelensky created the Primorsky city military administration of the Berdyansk district of the Zaporozhye region. Svetlana Makedonskaya has been appointed head of the Primorskaya GBA.
18:19 "Putin's cook" Yevgeny Prigozhin personally visits the colonies for former security forces and agitates them to fight in Ukraine in the Wagner PMC, promising to have their convictions expunged, said Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net. Former military, police officers, prosecutors in the Russian penal system serve their sentences separately from the rest of the convicts. Osechkin's source claims that at least 167 people have already agreed to become "volunteers."
18:14 The document that was signed today in Istanbul is called the Initiative for the Safe Transportation of Grain and Food from Ukrainian Ports. Ukraine did not sign any documents with Russia. The initiative, signed by representatives of Turkey, the UN and Ukraine, must be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers and made public in full, the UP writes. The same document was signed separately by representatives of Turkey, the UN and the Russian Federation. From the Ukrainian side, the document was signed by Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, from the Russian side - by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
18:01 Shoigu said that the signed memorandum on UN assistance in the supply of Russian food and fertilizers to world markets and the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian grain are interconnected - this is a single package. According to him, the algorithm was proposed by Russia. Inspection of vessels with Ukrainian grain will be carried out both at the exit and at the entrance to the Black Sea. Shoigu also stressed that the safety of ships in the territorial waters of Ukraine, within the framework of the agreement, should be ensured by Kyiv.
17:42 Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain with the UN and Turkey in Istanbul , RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The deal involves the export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea from three ports (Odessa, Chornomorsk, Yuzhny), the export agreement is valid for 120 days, with the possibility of extension. The ports will not be cleared of mines, the ships will go along safe fairways. Also, the agreement does not imply military escort of ships.
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A coordinating center (Russia, Turkey, Ukraine) will be created in Istanbul to monitor the process, which will resolve incidents if they occur. Vessels going to Ukraine will be inspected for the presence of weapons (access will also be received by representatives of Russia). It is assumed that the full movement of ships to and from Ukrainian ports for the export of food may begin in a couple of weeks. The Ukrainian military is confident that the routes agreed upon under the deal are safe.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that Shoigu and the UN Secretary General signed a memorandum on facilitating the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to the world market.
17:24 The European Commission has prepared an emergency plan due to the threat of Russia cutting off gas supplies to Europe. Among other things, he suggests that by March next year, EU member states should reduce their gas consumption by 15%. The President of the European Commission, followed by the European Commissioners for Climate, Energy and Industry, call for solidarity. But not all EU countries agree. Read more in the material The EU is preparing a gas plan .
17:14 The invaders close Mariupol for entry and exit from 16:00 Friday, July 22, until 6:00 Monday, July 25. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, enhanced filtration and anti-partisan measures will be carried out. According to insiders, the reason is "a bad night for the occupiers in Berdyansk, where they suddenly lost a certain number of soldiers."
16:36 A senior Pentagon official said that the Russian military daily suffer hundreds of losses in the war against Ukraine, in particular, Russia has lost thousands of lieutenants and captains, writes Reuters.
An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the media that in addition to the killed lieutenants and captains, hundreds of colonels and "many" Russian generals were killed. Russia classifies military deaths as a state secret and has not updated its official casualty figures since the spring.
The US also believes that Ukraine has destroyed more than 100 "high-value" Russian targets on its territory, including command posts, ammunition depots and air defense facilities.
15:52 The businessman and the head of the headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the Dnieper, Gennady Korban, had their Ukrainian passport taken away at the border when he was returning to Ukraine. Representatives of the SBU, NABU and the SBI arrived at the border. Korban, in a commentary to the Ukrainian media, confirmed that the passport was confiscated because he was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship. Earlier, the media reported on Zelensky’s decree, by which he deprives a number of people of Ukrainian citizenship, including Korban and Kolomoisky.
15:35 Ukraine initiates the creation of an international tribunal to try Putin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrey Smirnov said: "A separate tribunal against Russia with the participation of the international community will accelerate the prosecution of Putin and his inner circle, and the presence of an indictment and a warrant for the arrest of Putin or Shoigu will be a big step forward in achieving justice."
15:01 The situation in the Luhansk region is difficult, but controlled, fighting is underway in the areas of Belogorivka and Verkhnekamenka, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold the line of defense and do not allow the enemy to advance. Ukrainian artillerymen destroyed many warehouses behind enemy lines. Gaidai said that the Russians are increasingly throwing units of private military campaigns into attacks because their army has suffered huge losses. Also, the invaders have problems with the delivery of ammunition.
14:40 One of the largest ports in Europe - Rotterdam - announced the suspension of container traffic to and from Russia.
14:22 The NBU put into circulation a new 10 hryvnia coin dedicated to the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:19 There will be no signing of a direct agreement between Russia and Ukraine on unblocking grain exports, Podolyak said. According to him, Ukraine will sign an agreement with Turkey and the UN, and Russia will sign a mirror document with them. The agreement is planned to be signed today at 16:30 in Istanbul.
14:17 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said in an interview with TSN that thousands of residents of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk helped Russian troops and provided information about the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “There were 10,000 residents left in Severodonetsk. Even if they were hypothetically traitors, it’s not even 10 "% of the total population that lived there before the full-scale invasion. So it's not a big percentage. But even if it's one or two thousand people who could help, it's still a lot."
13:43 The Rada will adopt the laws necessary to start negotiations on joining the EU by the end of the year, Stefanchuk said. According to him, the main activity on the European integration track in the session hall will begin in September. "We clearly know how we can fulfill the seven requirements that Ukraine received almost a month ago," the speaker stressed. He said that the parliament is already preparing the necessary list of bills, in particular, we are talking about the reform of the Constitutional Court.
13:38 Since the outbreak of hostilities in February, Ukraine has received 12.7 billion dollars of Western financial assistance, and the total volume of announced assistance from Western countries is 27 billion, said the head of the National Bank, Kirill Shevchenko.
13:05 The official representative of Europol, Jan Op Gen Oort, said yesterday that he allegedly has evidence of arms smuggling from Ukraine. According to him, small arms are being exported from Ukraine, and investigators from EU member states have data on the trade in heavy weapons. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said in response that Ukraine expects a substantive conversation with Europol. Danilov stressed that the publication of "arms smuggling" in the Western media coincides with the start of a large-scale information special operation of the Russian Federation MakZim, discrediting Ukraine. The main goal of the campaign is to stop the supply of weapons from the allies.
13:02 Russian media report that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Istanbul to sign an agreement on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine. From Turkey, the document will also be signed by Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar, and from the Ukrainian side - Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov.
12:59 Only 11% of educational institutions in Ukraine have their own protective structures of civil protection, the State Emergency Service reported. At the same time, the presence of bomb shelters is a key condition for launching offline training.
12:33 Since the beginning of a full-scale war, the Russian army most often hit Izyum in the Kharkiv region - a total of 476 missile strikes, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov. In second place - Mariupol, then Nikolaev.
12:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explained the blow to the Kramatorsk school: according to Moscow, "the stationing point of the Black Hundred national formation" was destroyed there.
12:09 In the Kherson region, the invaders are trying to engage in "military-patriotic education" of Ukrainian youth. According to the GUR MOU, "public organizations" such as "young builders of the Kherson region", "youth of Kherson", etc. are being actively formed for this purpose. The participation of Ukrainian youth in them is increasingly becoming compulsory. At the same time, the older generation of the region is involved in the newly created organizations "union of mothers of the Kherson region", "organization of veterans of the Kherson region".
11:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that from July 5 to July 20, "four HIMARS launchers and one transport-loading vehicle" were allegedly destroyed in Ukraine.
11:26 In the "DNR", following the "LNR", they also decided to block Google, Pushilin said.
11:21 Head of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann announced the need for direct supplies of tanks to Ukraine. According to her, the principle of circular exchange, according to which Poland provides Kyiv with its Soviet-designed equipment, and in return receives German equipment, makes sense, but in the case of Ukraine it did not work: “We must have the courage to admit that everything does not work the way we imagine represented, and should instead supply [tanks] directly to Ukraine if needed."
Strack-Zimmermann added that Ukrainian soldiers have proven their ability to quickly master and start using new equipment.
11:15 The Japanese Ministry of Defense in its annual report warns of an increased military threat from Russia and growing pressure from China on Taiwan. The agency notes, in particular, that the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine may serve as a signal that it is permissible to change the status quo by force unilaterally.
A whole chapter is devoted to the war in Ukraine in the document, writes Die Zeit. It says Moscow may increasingly rely on its nuclear capability as a deterrent, which in turn could mean a surge in activity around Japan, where Russian nuclear submarines regularly maneuver. There are also concerns about the expansion and deepening of relations between Russia and China.
11:09 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region are trying to equip a pontoon crossing across the Dnieper, not being able to quickly restore the Antonovsky bridge damaged by Ukrainian strikes, Yury Sobolevsky, First Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional Council, said on the air of the telethon: "The damage is really so significant that they have already applied to Moscow with in order to raise the archival plans of this bridge and develop documentation for the repair. With the design documentation for the bridge, it is not yet formed, and without it, it will not be possible to quickly prepare a restoration work plan. "
According to Sobolevsky, the Antonovsky Bridge is a priority target for both Ukraine and the Russian Federation, so the Russians are actively protecting it with missile defense systems. As an alternative to the bridge, the occupiers have the "Kahovsky way", but it does not allow them to quickly bring heavy ammunition due to a difficult detour.
11:03 From under the rubble at the Kramatorsk school after yesterday's shelling, rescuers removed the bodies of three dead, search work continues, the State Emergency Service reported. Rescuers have already cleared 200 tons of destroyed parts of the building. As a result of the strikes, a school was destroyed in the city, a five-story building and 85 private houses were damaged.
10:44 SBU eliminated in Kiev the scheme of theft of protective equipment of the National Guard for more than 8 million hryvnias. The attackers tried to illegally sell about 2,000 plates for body armor, helmets and other military ammunition. In addition, 120,000 unregistered cartridges for firearms prepared for sale were confiscated from them.
The scheme was organized by the head of a specialized network of stores selling military equipment and the director of the capital's commercial structure. They brought into Ukraine a wholesale batch of protective equipment, allegedly for the needs of the National Guard.
10:28 After yesterday's shelling of Kharkiv, which killed three people, 16 wounded remain in the hospital. Of these, two are in extremely serious condition, the condition of three more doctors assess as serious, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
10:04 Russia has expanded the list of "unfriendly states" to include Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia.
09:47 The Ukrainian military repelled an enemy attack from the Lisichansk Oil Refinery, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, during July 21, the Russians launched two missile and two air strikes, carried out five shelling and two more with the use of mortars.
09:28 British intelligence reports that in the Donbass the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to repel attempts to storm the Uglegorsk TPP, Russian artillery is shelling in the directions of Kramatorsk and Seversk. Intelligence also cites statements by the head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, that Russia has begun to use the S-300 air defense systems more often to attack ground targets. According to analysts, this is due to an acute shortage of specialized missiles for ground attacks.
Intelligence notes that these weapons have relatively small warheads designed to destroy aircraft. They can pose a significant threat to troops in open areas and in unfortified buildings, but are unlikely to penetrate through fortified structures.
08:56 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 22. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog and Bakhmut directions.
- personnel - about 39,000 (+150) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1704 (+0),
- armored combat vehicles - 3920 (+8),
- artillery systems - 863 (+4),
- MLRS - 251 (+0),
- air defense systems - 113 (+0),
- aircraft - 221 (+0),
- helicopters - 188 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 713 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 167 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2803 (+22),
- special equipment - 72 (+0).
08:50 In Transnistria, they said they want to join Russia. Foreign Minister of the "republic" Vitaly Ignatiev told the Russian media that Tiraspol intends to seek the implementation of the results of the "referendum" held in Transnistria in 2006. Its results assume "independence followed by free accession to the Russian Federation."
08:37 On July 19, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian electronic warfare station Repellent-1 near the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the speaker of the Odessa OVA, Sergey Bratchuk, told. According to him, the control center of this station is located in an armored kung equipped with a system of protection against chemical and bacteriological weapons. Repellent-1 was first demonstrated in the Russian Federation in September 2016 at a defense exhibition. The station is capable of detecting miniature aerial targets at a distance of 30-35 km, as well as jamming drones at a distance of up to 2.5 km.
07:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the Yuzhnobuzhsky and Bakhmutsky directions, battles continue near the Uglegorsk TPP and Pokrovsky, the General Staff said in the morning report .
07:49 At night, the Russian army covered three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with fire - Nikopol, Sinelnikovsky and Krivorozhsky, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. In particular, the Russians fired at Nikopol twice from the MLRS, fired up to 100 shells. Initially, one person was killed and one injured. 11 private houses were damaged, there are gusts of gas and water pipes, and railway tracks were destroyed.
In the Pokrovskaya community, the enemy hit the warehouses, broke the transformer - several villages were left without electricity. The Zelenodolsk community was hit by cannon artillery, touched a private house, the fire had already been extinguished. In Apostolovo, seven rocket attacks were recorded, three schools were destroyed, and residential buildings were damaged. Eight people are preliminarily wounded.
07:41 The IRIS-T air defense system is still at the production stage in Germany and will be ready for shipment to Ukraine at the end of summer, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock told DW: "Our problem, like many European countries, is that that the stocks do not have everything that Ukraine needs, so we will send to Ukraine, for example, IRIS-T - one of the most modern air defense systems, which is now only at the production stage and, I hope, will be ready at the end of summer. Thus, we are always checking what else can be done to support Ukraine even more."
02:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that the current operational pace of the Russian troops does not differ significantly from that which was during the officially announced operational pause between July 7 and 16. Since July 16, the Russians have continued local attacks east of Seversk and east and south of Bakhmut; as of July 21, they had not made significant territorial gains in those areas.
The lack of successful ground attacks outside the Slovyansk, Seversk and Bakhmut areas is consistent with the ISW assessment that the Russian advance is likely to end without the capture of Slovyansk or Bakhmut.
01:55 Ukrainian defenders in the south attacked five strongholds and two ammunition depots in the Skadovsky and Beryslav districts of the Kherson region, as well as at the place of accumulation of enemy personnel in the Nikolaev region, OK Pivden reported.
01:19 According to WSJ sources, the European Union at the last moment excluded the Russian titanium giant VSMPO-Avisma from the new package of sanctions. It is the main supplier of the French Airbus. In addition, the company supplies materials for Russian fighters.
00:54 The ability of the Russian Federation to spy in Europe has halved. Since February 24, European countries have expelled 400 Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover, British Foreign Intelligence Service chief Richard Moore said.
00:41 The head of the Nikopol RVA, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, announced an attack on the city from the MLRS.
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