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[LB] The defense forces repelled 30 out of 35 enemy attacks. The fighting continues.
by Ivanna Kapustianska
Since the beginning of the day, 92 combat clashes have taken place at the front. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines, and destroying the Russians' plans, the statement of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says.
Russian artillery shelling affected areas of settlements, in particular, Gremyach, Arkhipivka in Chernihiv region; Seredyna-Buda, Slavhorod, Maryine, Doroshivka in Sumy region; and Tymofiivka in Kharkiv region.
In the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, the enemy conducted eight offensive actions today, and two clashes are currently ongoing. The enemy carried out two airstrikes, dropped a total of five guided bombs, and carried out 144 shellings.
In the South Slobozhansk direction, Ukrainian troops repelled an enemy offensive in the direction of Petro-Ivanivka. The areas of the settlements of Velykyi Burluk, Odradne, and Vilhuvatka were affected by enemy air strikes.
In the Kupyansk direction, since the beginning of the day, the enemy twice advanced on the positions of our defenders in the area of the settlement of Stepova Novoselivka, and the battle is currently ongoing.
In the Lymansky direction, 20 clashes took place today, five of which are still ongoing. The enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Novoyehorivka, Hrekivka, Novyi Mir, Karpivka, Seredne, Kolodyazi, and in the directions of Shandryholovy, Torske, and Serebryanka.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy launched two attacks today. The occupier units tried to advance near Ivano-Daryivka and Verkhnyokamyansky.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled two enemy attacks. The enemy conducted offensive actions, trying to advance in the directions of Predtechyny and Bila Hora.
The defense forces have already successfully stopped five enemy attacks in the Toretsk direction. The invader tried to advance in the areas of the settlements of Toretsk, Shcherbinivka and in the directions of Pleshchiivka, Katerynivka. Two more attacks are still ongoing.
In the Pokrovske direction, Russian troops have tried 35 times to advance on the positions of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Popiv Yar, Novoekonomichne, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Novoserhiivka, Udachne, Muravka, Novoukrainka, Dachne, Oleksiivka, Malynivka, Lysivka, Shevchenko and in the direction of Pokrovske, Sergiivka and Rodynske. Our defenders have already repelled 30 enemy attacks, the fighting does not cease.
The aggressor's aviation carried out strikes with KABs on the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Rodynske, Suvorov, and Pokrovsk.
In the Novopavlivka direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy attacks near the settlements of Zaporizhzhia, Tolstoy, Piddubne, Novosilka, and Zelenye Pole. Another enemy attack is still ongoing. Air strikes hit Sichneve and Velykymykhaylivka.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Hulyaipil and Orikhiv directions, but carried out air strikes in the areas of Poltavka, Hulyaipil, and Prymorske.
In the Dnieper direction, the aggressor carried out four futile attacks on the positions of our defenders. Lviv and Olhivka were hit by unguided air missiles.
There have been no significant changes in the situation in the remaining areas. Ukrainian troops are exhausting the enemy along the entire line of combat contact and in the rear.
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[NewsFront] 19:40 Soldiers of the 1st Tank Army destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Zeleny Gai, –video. 19:22 Five-story building collapsed in Aleshki after the airstrike of the Ukrainian Federal Unity
"The enemy carried out an airstrike on a residential building in Oleshky. The five-story building collapsed, and civilians are under the rubble," said Kherson Oblast Governor Volodymyr Saldo.
18:51 Self-propelled gun "Bogdana" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by a strike from a kamikaze drone "Lancet" by our fighters of the "Vostok" group of forces on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
18:00 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the "Vostok" group of forces destroyed enemy UAV control point in the South Donetsk direction.
– On the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, Novorossiysk paratrooper artillerymen destroyed a camouflaged self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in which the ammunition detonated after the crew of the 152mm Giatsint-B gun hit.
17:55 North group scouts uncovered the location of an enemy vehicle camouflaged in a forest plantation near the village of Pisarevka (Sumy region).
The coordinates were transmitted to FPV operators of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 44th Army Corps of the Leningrad Military District, who carried out a targeted attack, destroying the vehicle and the materiel stored inside the “loaf”.
17:15 Our scouts from the motorized rifle regiment uncovered the launch site of enemy heavy copters in the village of Udy (Khar'kov region).
16:40 In the village of Golovchino, Graivoron district, an FPV drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraineattackedprivate house. A civilian was injured.
The ambulance staff delivered a woman with a mine-explosive injury and barotrauma to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2. The victim was hospitalized in a moderate condition.
As a result of the detonation, the roof and wall of the house were damaged.
15:15 Crew of the modernized TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of the "Center" group of forces destroyed a fortified area with launch and control points for enemy UAVs in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
The combat vehicle commander and driver-mechanic note the firepower of the modernized heavy flamethrower system, as well as its maneuverability, high mobility and long firing range.
14:50 Around 14:15 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the Black Sea.
14:04 Command of the 43rd and 151st Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran away from Kupyansk
In view of the hopelessness of the situation and the inevitable collapse of the defense that had developed in the entire Kupyansk direction and in Kupyansk itself in particular, the command of the 43rd and 151st Mechanized brigades hastily left the semi-besieged city and its environs.
The constant use of Russian FPV drones negates any attempts to move within Kupyansk, and most of the logistics routes are under the fire control of the artillery and aviation of the Russian Armed Forces, bringing closer the inevitability of the collapse of the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
13:02 In the period from 11:00 Moscow time to 11:45 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Four UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region and
Three UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
12:35 As a result of active actions by units of the West military group released the settlement of Zelenaya Dolina in the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:10 From July 5 to 11, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted six group strikes with high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in the destruction of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, energy infrastructure facilities that supported their operation, military airfields, assembly and storage sites for strike unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned boats, arsenals, fuel and military-technical equipment depots, territorial centers for the recruitment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
11:35 In the period from 10.40 Moscow time to 10.50 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
Three UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region and
One UAV over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
10:50 In Odessa, a strike was carried out on the regional TCC on Zenkovetska. In the comments under the video of the landing on Ukrainian resources, local residents thank the Russian Armed Forces for the targeted work on the denazification of Odessa, –video.
10:05 As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the city of Shebekino died a civilian. The woman died at the scene before the ambulance crew arrived.
As a result of the ammunition landing, the roof of one private house was broken, and outbuildings on the territory of another house were damaged. Two cars were also cut by shrapnel.
Emergency services are working on the ground. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
9:35 Russian Army took most of Mirny and reached Voskresenka near the border of the DPR and Dnepropetrovsk region
In the Velikomikhailovsky section of the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops continue their offensive.
The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the northern, central and eastern parts of the settlement of Mirnoye. Fighting continues in the western and southern parts.
Near the settlement of Voskresenka, Russian troops captured Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds and forest belts on the Shevchenko-Fyodorovka line. The fighting continues.
9:20 As a result of the Ukrainian UAV strike on the village of Sukhodol in the Belovsky district, four people received shrapnel wounds: three men aged 32, 33 and 45 and a 53-year-old woman. All were taken to the Belovskaya Central Regional Hospital, in moderate condition.
8:27 As a result of the strike of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV on the Tula regiondieda civilian, another was injured.
8:05 During the past night, from 23:00 Moscow time on July 10 this year to 7:00 Moscow time on July 11 this year, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 155 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were :
– 53 UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
– 19 UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region,
– 15 UAVs over the territory of the Smolensk region,
– 14 UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– 13 UAVs over the territory of the Tula region,
– 11 UAVs over the territories of the Oryol region and the Moscow region,
– Seven UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– Four UAVs over the territory of the Lipetsk region and over the waters of the Black Sea,
– Two UAVs over the territories of the Rostov and Kaluga regions.
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[Regnum] The Kiev regime does not want to return the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to their families. This was reported on July 11 by the pro-Russian underground.
“The Kiev authorities told one of the relatives of the deceased VSU soldier that the body of her relative who died at the front will not be given to her for burial until at least two years have passed, and then they will begin to discuss with her the possibility of any kind of financial compensation,” the source told RIA Novosti.
The underground indicated that this was not the only case of sabotage of the transfer of the bodies of the dead to relatives.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, it became known earlier that the bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, transferred by Russia as a gesture of goodwill following the Istanbul agreements of June 2, are being burned in order to avoid paying compensation to their relatives. On July 10, TASS published footage from a surveillance camera, presumably from a crematorium in the Ternopil region. In it, three men in protective suits and masks bring a body on a gurney and burn it in an oven.
After the second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, the first 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were delivered to the exchange site on June 6. Ukraine, without explanation, postponed the acceptance of the bodies of its soldiers. Thus, refrigerated trucks with frozen corpses stood at the border for several days.
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[Regnum] The commander of the 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, Sergei Ilyin, died in the zone of a special military operation. This was reported on July 11 by the RT television channel.
Ilyin was born in the village of Musirmy in the Chuvash District. He served in the Marine Corps for over 20 years, rising from junior commander to colonel.
"Sergey Yuryevich carried out combat missions with honor and courage, demonstrating exceptional bravery and heroism. He performed an immortal feat, giving his life for our Motherland. Giving one's life for one's country is the highest patriotic act that will forever remain in people's memory. His bravery and selflessness serve as an example for future generations," the TV channel quotes the message from the administration of the Urmarsky Municipal District of Chuvashia, which was later deleted.
The 155th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade is a tactical unit of the Pacific Fleet's naval infantry. The unit is stationed in Vladivostok and in the village of Slavyanka in Primorsky Krai. The brigade is currently named after Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Mikhail Gudkov.
As previously reported by the Regnum news agency, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Mikhail Gudkov died in the Kursk region on July 2. His comrade Nariman Shikhaliev died along with the commander.
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Gudkov the Gold Star medal posthumously. The second special distinction was awarded to Major General Gudkov for courage and heroism displayed during a special military operation. He was awarded the title Hero of Russia in October 2023 for courage, heroism and skillful command of subordinate units.
According to another decree of the president, the 155th separate guards Kursk orders of Zhukov and Suvorov marine brigade was awarded the honorary title “named after twice Hero of the Russian Federation Major General M. E. Gudkov.”
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[Regnum] The Mangazeya settlement, located in the Tazovsky and Krasnoselkupsky Districts of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, will become the site of large-scale archaeological excavations. As experts note, the study of this territory will help to better understand the history of the ancient city of Mangazeya, the reasons for its decline, and also to study the formation of Orthodoxy in Yamal.
The work will start on August 1 and will last until September 15. It is being carried out as part of the project "Holy Protomartyr Basil of Mangazeya". The project is being implemented by the non-profit organization "Siberian Heritage". In 2025, the initiative received support in the form of a grant from the governor in the amount of 4.6 million rubles, as well as co-financing from the Presidential Grants Fund. In the near future, researchers will have to determine the location of the church, the voivode's court and the chapel over the saint's grave. The work will help clarify the details of the life of St. Basil of Mangazeya and may become an important step in the development of the region's tourism potential.
An important stage was the study of historical documents and materials from the 17th century from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. The scientific reconstruction of the events was carried out by historian, specialist in Siberian cities and ancient Russian icon painting Ilya Gorshkov. In the future, scientists will compile a database of sources on the life, cult and iconography of the saint.
"Previous excavations covered the posad part of the settlement, while the temple architecture and religious life of Mangazeya remained practically unexplored. Modern technologies, including geoscanning and aerial photography from quadcopters, will allow for more accurate and detailed research," said Georgy Vizgalov, head of the research project "Holy Protomartyr Basil of Mangazeya."
Mangazeya is considered one of the first polar Russian cities in Siberia. It existed in the 17th century and was a fur trade center and a stronghold on the trade route. Educational lectures will be held for residents of Yamal who decide to volunteer for the excavations.
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[ColonelCassad] The NYT reports that SBU Colonel Voronich, who was killed yesterday in Kiev by an unknown shooter, was involved in organizing the murder of Sparta Battalion commander Arsen Pavlov (call sign "Motorola"). If this is true, then retribution for the murder of "Motor" came 9 years later. But of course, Voronich was not the only one involved, so...
"Motorola" was blown up in an elevator in Donetsk in 2016 after a series of unsuccessful assassination attempts.
Ivan Voronich, a colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) who was shot dead in the center of Kiev, turned out to be connected with the murder of the commander of the Donbass militia Arsen Pavlov (Motorola). This was reported on July 11 by the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT).
The article states that Voronich began working for the SBU in the mid-1990s and quickly became head of the Fifth Directorate.
"The unit, known as the Fifth Directorate and receiving technical support from the CIA, was responsible for the assassination of high-ranking commander Arsen Pavlov," the publication says.
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