Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a number of statements:
- Ukrainian nationalists mined bridges across the Konka and Ploska Osokorovka rivers in the Zaporozhye region in order to blow them up and blame the RF Armed Forces;
- At a radiation hazardous facility in the DPR, Kyiv prepared a provocation to accuse the RF Armed Forces of creating a threat of radioactive contamination of regions of Ukraine;
- When retreating from the city of Konstantinovka to the DPR, the nationalists plan to blow up storage facilities for radioactive and chemical waste;
- Militants and employees of the SBU terrorize and kidnap residents of the city of Seredina-Buda, Sumy region, with pro-Russian views;
- Almost 22,500 thousand people were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine per day.
21:27 The United States began to study the possibility of supplying combat aircraft to Ukraine - White House.
21:27 Military expert Oleg Zhdanov says that the Crimean bridge can be destroyed with one blow - it is enough to deliver it when a railway train with ammunition is moving along the bridge.
20:17 Ukrainian media publish the text of the grain export agreement signed by Ukraine today in Istanbul.
19:10 In Kherson region completed combat coordination Odessa brigade - in the near future offensive operations will begin in the Nikolaev and Odessa directions
"In the near future, together with the allied forces, we will begin to liberate the city of Nikolaev and the hero city of Odessa. There will be no mercy for the Ukrainians, mercenaries and any Bandera scum from us," a representative of the brigade said.
16:20 FSB officers detained in Crimea an accomplice of militants who planned terrorist attacks. The detained 35-year-old resident of St. Petersburg planned to illegally cross the Russian border and join the Ukrainians to participate in sabotage against Russian military and civilians.
The failed militant quit his job in advance, acquired camouflage and underwent an accelerated tactical and fire training course. At the moment, the issue of choosing a measure of punishment for him is already being decided.
16:15 Gennady Korban, the head of the “terodefense headquarters” of Dnipro, had his passport seized at the border. Ukrainian border guards reported that Korban's citizenship had been suspended and referred to Zelensky's unconfirmed decree depriving a number of well-known politicians of their citizenship. It is noteworthy that the passport was confiscated without any officially presented documents.
15:09 In Kherson, they report a strong explosion. Local publics write that it happened in the area of the Epicenter store, the smoke that rose was orange.
14:04 A powerful explosion near Chernobaevka was heard in Kherson.
14:04 Yevgeny Balitsky signed a decree approving electricity tariffs for residents of territories that suffered from Ukraine's actions after the gas supply was cut off. For the period of absence of gas supply, an electricity tariff was approved in the amount of 0.5 rubles kWh.
13:40 Military units of the Russian Armed Forces will be permanently deployed in the Kherson region. The head of the military-civilian administration of the region, Vladimir Saldo, said that the issue of the permanent presence, and not just for the period of the North Military District, of military units of the Russian army is already being worked out.
12:48 In the Bulgarian Black Sea, the annual Breeze military exercises are being held with the participation of 11 NATO countries, writes the Bulgarian news agency News Bg. The exercises are attended by: 24 combat and auxiliary ships and boats, five aircraft, four helicopters, 1,390 military personnel of the navies of Bulgaria, Albania, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, USA, Turkey, France, as well as from the NATO Naval Command.
11:50 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
▪️The RF Armed Forces destroyed four US-made HIMARS launchers transferred to Ukraine from 5 to 20 July;
▪️Russian troops destroyed the point of temporary deployment of the Black Hundred national formation in the school of Kramatorsk, liquidated up to 300 militants;
▪️Air defense systems of the Russian Federation shot down 12 Ukrainian UAVs in the Kharkiv region and the DPR in a day, intercepted two rounds of the Uragan MLRS;
▪️The RF Armed Forces, as part of counterbattery combat, suppressed four platoons of the Grad MLRS, 24 artillery platoons of D-20 howitzers;
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the depot of rocket and artillery weapons of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev, up to 30 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were eliminated.
10:58 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of combat sorties by the crews of the Su-35S and Su-30SM fighters of the Eastern Military District to destroy the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special operation.
10:56 Ukraine, Transcarpathia, catching conscripts on the streets
09:30 Arestovich, commenting that Russian air strikes were carried out all day yesterday almost along the entire front line:
"This means big trouble in the Russian army. They use aviation only in extreme cases, and the fact that they do not hit along the entire front line shows that they cannot attack and cannot follow the order."
07:19 Strikes on Ukrainian targets in Nikolaev. Smoke over the city, at least five explosions reported
06:01 Payment of pensions and social benefits in the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region will begin in August. Currently, the formation of lists of recipients of payments continues, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the region, Andrei Siguta.
05:03 The Melitopol railway will work in full after the completion of its safety check. Currently, a special commission is engaged in this work, Andrey Siguta, head of the military-civilian administration of the district, said.
03:40 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Civil-Military Administration of the Zaporozhye region, was included in the "black list" according to the new package of EU anti-Russian sanctions.
0:48 The Russian army hit the targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikopol region from the side of Energodar, and objects in the Nikopol region were fired from the Kherson region