Defense Ministry: the Russian navy destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers in the Odessa region
The troops of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, together with the Russian army, have recaptured 255 settlements, the DPR said. The attack on Soledar continues. The Russian military retaliated by suppressing Ukrainian positions from which the shelling of border areas in the Kursk region was conducted, Governor Roman Starovoit said. For the second day in a row, the AFU fired rockets at the bridge over the Dnieper River in the Kherson region. Sergei Shoigu instructed to "rigidly" shoot down Ukrainian UAVs. A missile strike destroyed up to 200 Naval reservists. "Newspaper.Ru" collected the latest news from the front.
There is an offensive on Soledar
The troops of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, together with the Russian army, recaptured 255 settlements from the Ukrainian military during the special operation. This is reported by the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian command was forcibly mobilizing the local population to make up for major losses in the area.
Soledar is located 20 km from Artemovsk (Bakhmut), a major transport hub controlled by Kiev.
200 reservists destroyed
The Russian Navy has destroyed more than 200 servicemen with long-range cruise missiles over the past day at the reservist training center for the Ukrainian army, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
The strike by sea-based missiles was inflicted on the temporary deployment point of the 35th Marine Brigade in the village of Dachnoye, Odessa region.
In the area of Usatovo, Odessa region, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the launcher of the American Harpoon missile system.
Suppressed the positions of the APU
The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that Russian artillery returned fire suppressed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from where the shelling of the border territories of the Russian region was conducted.
Starovoit noted that the international automobile checkpoint "Krupets" was also shelled.
He noted that the power line was damaged, three settlements remain without light. Repairmen went to the place.
Over the past two days, the AFU has also fired at the border post of the village of Chernozemny and twice at the village of Novye Yurkovichi, Bryansk region. The fire was also conducted in the village of Lomakovka. On July 12, Ukrainian mortars fired 18 mines at the village of Belaya Berezka. There is a yellow level of anti-terrorist danger in the region.
Shelling of the bridge across the Dnieper
For the second day in a row, the AFU fired missiles from the HIMARS MLRS at the bridge across the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
As the deputy head of the military-civil administration of the region Kirill Stremousov told TASS, 12 missiles were fired at the crossing, 11 of them hit the target. There are no casualties.
Antonovsky Bridge is an automobile and pedestrian bridge over the Dnieper River, 1.3 km long, connecting the suburb of Kherson Antonovka with the city of Alyoshki on the left bank.
Countering shelling
The Russian military must "strictly stop" the shelling of Donbas settlements by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during an inspection of the Zapad group of troops.
"Shoigu gave instructions on further increasing the efficiency of destroying enemy unmanned aerial vehicles over the areas bordering Russia, as well as tough suppression, taking into account the arrival of new means of counter-battery warfare, nationalist shelling of residential quarters of liberated settlements," the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said in a statement.
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Peter Nikolaev
