Key Takeaways
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is likely continuing to allow Russia access to Belarusian airspace to indicate support to Russian President Vladimir Putin without risking the consequences of direct Belarusian military involvement in Ukraine.
Russian forces conducted limited and unsuccessful ground assaults northwest of Slovyansk and west of Donetsk City.
Russian forces continued air and artillery strikes around Siversk and Bakhmut.
Russian forces conducted localized ground assaults northwest of Kharkiv City.
Russian forces continued to focus on defensive operations along the entire Southern Axis.
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⚡️Update: Death toll in Chasiv Yar rises to 33.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported that they have retrieved a body of another victim, aproximately a 9-year-old child, on July 11. This brings the death toll from a Russian missile strike on a five-story residential building in the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast to 33 people. The rescue operation continues.
⚡️Official: Ukraine hits Russian ammunition depot in Kherson Oblast.
⚡️US Congresswoman Spartz calls for Yermak’s resignation, better support for army from Kyiv.
U.S. Representative Victoria Spartz said that President Volodymyr Zelensky's Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak launched a “smear campaign” against her after she voiced concerns over his integrity.
⚡️Permanent Court of Arbitration rejects main Russian objections, supports Ukraine in Kerch Strait Arbitration Case.
Akhmetov will not transfer media empire to state, only the broadcasting licenses.
⚡️Pentagon: Next Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting to take place July 20.
According to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, a virtual group meeting will take place on July 20. Austin also discussed the $400 million aid package announced last week in a phone call with Ukraine's Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov.
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❗️ The Russian military seized the Institute of Animal Husbandry "Askania-Nova" in the Kherson region. The invaders hung a Russian flag on the Institute's administrative building and introduced the "director of the enterprise" to the staff
🔚 About 900 companies out of 1,400 have ceased operations in Russia
Many Chinese companies remain in Russia. About 30 from the USA and some from France, Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries.
Of the world-famous brands, these are Leroy Merlin, Auchan, and Mary Kay.
The world-renowned company Tetra Pak is also active in Russia.
📌 The first eight foreign vessels arrived at the ports of Ukraine to transport agricultural products through the mouth of the Bystrinsky Canal of the Danube-Black Sea
The unblocking of the crossing became possible due to the liberation of the Zmiinyi Island from the invaders.
💡The Chornobyl nuclear power plant moves to the Paris Center of the World Organization of Nuclear Power Plant Operators. Since 1989, the Chornobyl nuclear power plant has been part of the capital's regional center.
❕Almost 80% of the population was evacuated from the Donetsk region
This was told by the head of the Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko.
👥 The Pentagon announced the date of the Ramstein-4 meeting
The fourth meeting of the Ramstein format will take place on July 20 in a virtual format.