Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:46 Hunting of the special forces "Brave":brokenspecial group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the survivors were taken prisoner. A special forces group conducting search operations in the area of the recently liberated Volcheyarovka and the Lisichansk Oil Refinery captured a group of saboteurs and opened several caches with NATO weapons: Javelin anti-tank systems, Swedish AT grenade launchers, as well as various small arms and ammunition for them.
20:51 Law enforcement officers detained a resident of Nova Kakhovka, who transmitted to the Ukrainian side data for strikes against military and civilian targets in the city. The detainee sent the geolocation of the forest plantation, where the equipment and military personnel were located.
20:50 The Crimean authorities extended the high level of terrorist threat in some areas until 20:00 on July 25, said the head of the region Sergey Aksyonov.
19:40 Summary from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the main thing:
▪️In the Kharkov direction, the Russian army uses tanks, cannon artillery and MLRS to strike positions in Kharkov and settlements to the north, east and south of the city. Airstrikes were also carried out near Upper Saltov, Petrovka and Mospanovo.
▪️In the Slavyansk direction, the RF Armed Forces conducted reconnaissance in force in the direction of Mazanovka.
▪️In the Bakhmut direction, the RF Armed Forces are firing from cannon and rocket artillery.
▪️In the Avdievka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya directions, the RF Armed Forces are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and air strikes have been carried out. Assault operations were carried out in the Novoselovka II area.
▪️In the Yuzhnobuzh direction, the RF Armed Forces are holding back Ukrainian forces.
18:46 In Obukhov, Kyiv region carried out raids and hand out subpoenas in institutions. This week there were three of them, during the last one five subpoenas were handed in the club for gamers.
17:39 Ukrainian public joyfully replicated fake about a missile attack on the National Guard base in Kherson. In fact, there is no broken base in nature. The missile hit a four-story building, where one of the support units of the National Guard used to be. A day ago, it was relocated to another location.
17:37 Another detained resident of Nova Kakhovka told in the testimony that RIA Novosti how the SBU transmitted the coordinates of the location of Russian troops
17:36 The representative of the Russian security forces told RIA Novosti on the detention of those suspected of transferring coordinates for missile strikes to the SBU
16:59 Kherson FSB officers detained two local residents who organized in mid-June the explosion of the car of the head of the USIN in the Kherson region Yevgeny Sobolev. It is specified that the terrorist act was committed on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
15:58 Two people, according to preliminary information, were injured as a result of the shelling of Kherson by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kherson region reported. As a result of the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a residential building where a family with a child lived was completely destroyed.
“According to preliminary data, two people were injured,” the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kherson region reported on the Telegram channel.
15:05 Kherson city hospital damaged due to shelling by Ukrainian troops
14:47 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 242 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,506 unmanned aerial vehicles, 353 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,995 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 741 multiple rocket launchers, 3,127 field artillery pieces and mortars have been destroyed , as well as 4128 units of special military vehicles.
14:47 Russian air defense systems intercepted in a day: three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, Ternove and Vesele, Kharkiv region, three Tochka-U ballistic missiles, 20 shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system in the area village of Chernobaevka, Kherson region, five shells of the MLRS "Smerch" in the area of the village of Brazhkovka, Kharkiv region.
14:47 Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery destroyed in a day: 17 command posts, four platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems, as well as two hangars in the Konstantinovka area with M777 howitzers sheltered in them, made by the United States, of which shelling of residential areas of Donetsk. Artillery units were defeated at firing positions in 42 districts, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 143 districts.
14:46 In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed in a day: three command posts in the areas of Soledar, Minkovka and Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic; manpower and military equipment in 16 districts, including the nationalist formation "Kraken" in the Kharkiv region. To compensate for the heavy losses of personnel, the Ukrainian military command has increased the sending of untrained reservists to the front line, who are forcibly recruited in the Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
14:46 High-precision ground-based weapons struck at the point of temporary deployment of the artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the ammunition depot on the territory of the "Ceramic Combine" in the city of Slovyansk. Up to 100 personnel, more than 1,000 artillery shells for US-made M777 howitzers and about 700 rockets for Grad MLRS were destroyed.
14:45 State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin does not believe that the world is on the verge of a "big war".
It can happen.
“Our president has done everything to ensure the security of our country <…>. If not for his decision to start a special military operation, <...> the world could actually face an abyss, before the threshold of a big war, ”said Volodin.
13:59 More than 60 percent of the inhabitants of the Zaporizhia region see the region as part of Russia as a separate entity, the head of the regional regional administration said.
12:41 Armed forces of Ukraine began to use British FV103 Spartan in Donbass
The day before, tracked armored personnel carriers were transferred to Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).
🔹The concept of an armored car appeared in the late 1950s.
The development was based on the FV101 Scopion light tank of the mid-1960s.
🔹The first prototype of the FV103 Spartan was made in 1972, and the car went into production in 1978 due to refinement and lack of production capacity.
🔹By the end of the 2000s, the British had replaced them with multi-purpose armored vehicles and vehicles.
🔹The UK experienced problems with their implementation - it managed to sell 123 units of Spartan to Latvia in 2014.
🔹Main characteristics: 60 mm aluminum armor; 3 crew members and five troops; speed up to 96 km/h, cruising range 483 km.
11:45 Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the combat work of the mortar battery crews firing from hidden firing positions at the artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of the special military operation.
10:51 Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the work of the crews of attack helicopters Ka-52 in the destruction of strong points and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:50 Four explosions thundered in Kherson, traces of air defense work visible in the sky - TASS
09:15 Morning launch missiles of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Nikolaev from the side of the Kherson region.
07:20 Kyiv "rejected" the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that the complex is not suitable for the country.
06:29 Attacks are being made on goals in Kharkov
06:25 Works air defense over Kherson. At least five intercepted targets.
0:12 Soldiers of the Ukrainian army drive tanks along the Kharkov roads, causing unrest. A resident of Kharkov publishes a video that shows that the tank drivers are clearly in a state of intoxication - they violated the rules of the road, broke the curb and frightened motorists. The safety of citizens, they apparently do not care. Take an example from the commander in chief. It is reported by telegram channel Solovyov live.