Ukraine – 7/25 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
Twitter: @rhomansjr
July 25, 2022
NOTE:
My colleague in Kyiv is now including dates and times for all his entries into each Sitrep, in order to help recipients keep track of the chronology of events.
The Latest Denys:
There are two significant pieces of news in Denys’ latest video:
· Destruction of the Darivka Bridge across the Inhulets River (northwest of Kherson) – This cuts the Russian-occupied area on the right bank of Dnieper River in two. It also limits re-supply of Russian forces in Kherson City, as the Antnivsky Bridge near Kherson City is now limited to smaller vehicles, and they can no longer use the bridge at Nova Kahovka. The fond hope might be if Russia sees that their position on the right bank of the Dnieper to be increasingly untenable and they retreat on their own, without Ukraine having to force them out.
· Thermal imaging appears to show the following: increased volume of Ukrainian artillery strikes around Kherson, against Russians positions on both banks of the Dnieper; very low artillery activity in Donbas, perhaps due to the loss of Russian ammunition dumps and their inability to resupply.
· It is unfortunate that the Biden Administration has, so far, decided against supplying Ukraine with the longer range, up to 300km, missiles that are compatible with the HIMERS Platform. Targets such as the Kerch Bridge, Sevastopol, and other targets in occupied Ukraine and Crimea would then be within range. However, as Denys pointed out, the Biden Administration had first decided against supplying Ukraine with HIMERS.
Times Radio
Interview with Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Malofyeva, on the current state of Ukraine’s grain harvest. The most significant news is that unless Ukraine’s 2021 harvest is released soon, and farmers can be paid, Ukrainian farmers won’t have funds to finance the sowing of winter wheat, to be harvested in the Spring of 2023. This could be something that bi-lateral and multi-lateral financing institutions can address, but they need to do so soon.
7/25 Sitrep (my comments in bold face)
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon July 24 to 12:00 noon July 25, 2022
INTERNATIONAL
July 25
11:39 AM European Commission President announced on July 26 the meeting of EU Energy Ministers in Brussels to discuss the issue of reducing gas consumption by 15%.
● She expressed confidence that the majority of the participants would approve the proposal.
11:47 AM Spiegel: The ruling coalition of Germany supported the direct supply of tanks to Ukraine
● “If this is a problem for partners, we should stop the round-trip and deliver directly to Ukraine - perhaps also (main battle tank) Leopard 2. Time is short.”
10:42 AM Polish Defense Ministry: Poland has already handed over to Ukraine the PT-91 Twardy tanks.
● Platek does not name the exact number of tanks for Ukraine. However, he says that after the transfer, there is a «shortage of more than 200 tanks» in Poland, which they plan to close with supplies from South Korea.
10:01 AM Foreign Policy Ukraine has deprived Russia of its source of income. Russia’s heavy losses in equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine are causing a significant slowdown in arms deliveries to Africa. This may lead to the substitution of arms deliveries from China and the USA, the Pentagon representatives said.
9:41 AM Financial Times: The EU countries have developed their proposals to the European Commission’s plan to reduce gas consumption by 15%. They believe that it is necessary to provide for a number of exceptions.
9:09 AM European Commission President: Europe should be ready for a complete shutdown of gas supplies from Russia, which «sooner or later» will happen
8:59 AM The Guardian - Hungarian Prime Minister: Makes nationalist statements, against the mixing of European and non-European races.
● “We [Hungarians] are not a mixed race … and we do not want to become a mixed race,” said Orbán. He added that countries where European and non-Europeans mingle were “no longer nations”.
● Such words caused mass outrage from opposition parties and European politicians.
July 24
11:46 PM The Guardian - German President:In Germany, they believe that the Kremlin's war is aimed not only at seizing the territories of Ukraine, but also at destroying unity among the countries of Europe.
8:00 PM Anadolu - Erdogan accused Greece of recently deliberately violating the provisions of the Lausanne Peace Treaty regarding the rights of the Turkish national minority in Cyprus.
4:26 PM: Poland raised funds for Bayraktar for Ukraine. More than 200 thousand Poles transferred money as part of the action. They raised 22.5 million zlotys, which is about 5 million US dollars.
3:52 PM Latvian Foreign Minister: 5 months since Russia attacked Ukraine, while Ukraine continues to fight, we must continue to support it; instead of empty talk, more HIMARS and other modern weapons systems are needed to stop the war.
3:08 PM Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: The UN unconditionally denies the statement about the right of Russians to shoot at the port of Odessa. Only the statement of Secretary General Guterres reflects the position of the organization, Nikolenko said.
1:53 PM ANSA: Pope Francis reiterated that he would like to visit Ukraine, he announced this on the way to Canada, where he went on an apostolic visit. "Yes, I would like to visit, hopefully. Maybe."
1:53 PM: Four fighters of the international legion died defending Ukraine from the Russians. The commander gave the following names -
● Ukrainian-American Luke ""Skywalker"" Lutsishin,
● American reserve officer Brian Young,
● Emile-Antoine Roy-Syrua from Canada
● Edward Celander Patrignani from Sweden.
1:19 PM Sieci - Deputy Prime Minister: Poland seeks to create the strongest ground forces among European countries, because it believes that Russia will not hit the strong.
12:55 PM Radio Liberty - US Ambassador: The United States is seriously considering declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism in connection with its actions because of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
12:16 PM Czech Radio: The Czech Republic has already issued more than 399,000 temporary protection visas to Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian aggression. Such data was published by the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs. On Friday visas were issued to 864 applicants
NATIONAL
July 25
11:36 AM There is a real boom in charitable organizations in Ukraine. The infographics show that in a few months of the war, organizations are registered four times more than in the whole of 2021.
10:52 AM Hollywood actor Richard Gere spoke at the summit of the first ladies and gentlemen in Kyiv:
● "This war must be won, we cannot be tired. This is the biggest war I’ve ever seen in my life, the war against evil. “This war will be finished and it must be won, we cannot get tired, it is an important element of our life. If we lose it, it will inspire other pagans around the world, so we must win it.
10:26 AM British Intelligence:
● Inconclusive fighting continues in both the Donbas and Kherson sectors. Russian commanders continue to face a dilemma; whether to resource the offensive in the east, or to bolster the defence in the west.
● Ukrainian intelligence identified a Russian military vehicle refit and refurbishment facility near Barvinok, in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, 10km from the Ukrainian border. At least 300 damaged vehicles were present, including main battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers, and general support trucks.
● In addition to its well documented personnel problems, Russia likely continues to struggle to extract and repair the thousands of combat vehicles which have been damaged in action in Ukraine.
9:04 AM Minister of Digital Transformation - Ukraine is technically ready for mutual recognition of digital signatures with the EU. The Ukrainian electronic signature recently successfully passed testing at the eSignature Validation Plugtests 2022
8:21 AM Operational Command “Pivden” (South):
● In the South, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the command and observation post of the 785th Detachment of the Special Task Force of the Russian National Guard.
● Russians within 24 hours lost 66 soldiers, 5 tanks, self-propelled howitzers "Gvozdika", anti-tank missile system "Fagot", 3 units of armored and automobile vehicles.
7:51 AM Operational report of the General Staff of the AFU :
● In the direction of Kramatorsk, the Ukrainian military repelled the Russian assault in the direction of Berestove - Ivano-Darivka, and Verkhnokamianka - Ivano-Darivka. The Russian troops have withdrawn. The Russians are advancing near Spirne. The fighting continues.
● In the Bakhmut direction, the assault in the direction of Vershyna - Luhanske ended for the Russian troops with a failure and a retreat. The Russians are advancing in the direction of Myronivske-Luhanske. The fighting continues.
● According to the available information, there are two Russian marine-launched cruise missile carriers of the «Calibr» type outside the bases.
7:14 AM The Institute for the Study of War:
● Ukrainian officials are increasingly acknowledging Ukrainian counteroffensive operations in the Kherson region
● The Kremlin is likely facing mounting (if still very limited) domestic dissent from within ethnic minority enclaves, which are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the Kremlin’s force generation efforts. Some of this is being facilitated by Ukrainian 5th Columnists, who have been operating for years to promote dissent among Russian ethnic minorities, including in such areas as lingual autonomy, resisting the draft, and by other means.
● Ukrainian strikes have damaged all three Russian-controlled bridges leading into Kherson within the past week.
● Russian forces attempted limited ground assaults northwest of Sloviansk, east of Siversk, south of Bakhmut, and in the Kherson region
● Russian occupation authorities continued setting conditions for annexation referenda in occupied territories and are recruiting Russian civilians for reconstruction efforts.
12:58 AM: Infographic showing how the share of the Ukrainian language in social networks is growing. The infographic shows that Ukrainians mostly communicate in Ukrainian on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
12:38 AM The Sun: British special forces helped the Ukrainians in preparing for the return of Zmiinyi Island.
● British special forces used their experience and equipment, including James Bond-style submersibles, the publication reports. They also trained the Ukrainian military to use underwater tugs, with which Ukrainian frogmen scanned the coastal area of Zmiinyi for mines before ordering the main force to attack.
July 24
10:52 PM Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada: Verkhovna Rada soon intends to adopt a number of bills to meet the requirements of the European Commission, some of them may cause discussion.
9:29 PM First Deputy Interior Minister: In one of the northern regions of Ukraine, two captured Russian tanks were confiscated from local residents. According to him, the issue of control over the circulation of weapons requires a special approach, including from the military.
9:17 PM Deputy Interior Minister: In Ukraine, violators of the curfew are taken to the military registration and enlistment offices and their service record is reviewed. These individuals go to the head of the list in case of mobilization.
9:01 PM President's Office: Spoke about when the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin.
● "The Russian army reached a plateau three weeks ago and this plateau began to curve, and on the contrary, we began to gain opportunities. When these two schedules converge, we will go on the offensive, and now we are waging a maneuver war and exhausting the enemy", he specified.
8:49 PM Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense: The Russians know that they are finished.
● "Instead of Soviet weapons, we now use the latest Western ones. If we get long-range ammunition, we will use it. And the Russians know that in any case, they will be finished with these weapons", Budanov stressed.
7:55 PM Air Assault Troops: Soldiers of the Sycheslav brigade of the Airborne Forces shot down a Russian Su-25 Grach attack aircraft with the help of the 'Igla' MANPADS today.
6:36 PM General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
● The attempts of the Russian troops to improve the tactical situation in the directions of Volodymyrivka - Bakhmutske and Dolomytne - Novoluhanske ended with significant losses and retreat.
● The Russians are losing their personnel, but stubbornly continue their attempts to establish control over the territory of the Vuhlehirsk TPP. The fighting continues. Tough battles also continue in the direction of Rota - Semihirria.
● The Russians launched an airstrike near Andriivka, the Kherson region. After that, they tried to advance in the directions of Sukhyi Stavok - Andriivka and Bruskynske - Bilohirka. But the Ukrainian soldiers did not give the enemy any chance of success. The enemy suffered losses and chaotically retreated.
6:02 PM Odesa City Council: The traditional Odesa Film Festival will be held in an unusual format and in several locations around the world due to the war.
● Thus, the program of the Odesa Film Festival will be broadcast at festivals in Norway, Canada, the Czech Republic, Kosovo and Poland.
● Already on July 26-31, special screenings of Ukrainian films will take place at the PriFest film festival in Kosovo in agreement with the OIFF.
5:46 PM Commander of the 63rd mechanized brigade: The Buryats fighting in Ukraine are particularly cruel.
● According to him, the soldiers from Buryatia "do not know pity, they are tougher than the rest". At the same time, the fighter notes, the Buryats were extremely amazed by the standard of living of Ukrainians.
5:18 PM: Soldiers of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade "Kholodnyi Yar" shot down a Russian Zala drone, which the Russians call "invisible".
4:38 PM: Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Intercepted phone conversation:
● A Russian military soldier told his mother that the top leadership was more worried about their equipment than about the lives of their personnel.
● The mother of the Russian said that propagandists say that the West has stopped helping Ukraine with finances and weapons, but the soldier noted that this is not true.
4:33 PM: The Armed Forces of Ukraine received 6 Stormer HVM anti-aircraft missile systems. The Ukrainian military for the first time showed the British air defense system at the front.
3:57 PM: Ukrposhta has announced the release of a new stamp featuring a tractor pulling a tank. The circulation of the stamp ""Good evening, we are from Ukraine"" is 5 million copies, but sales restrictions will apply. You can buy the stamp from July 28.
3:11 PM Ministry of Health: During the five months of a full-scale war in Ukraine, at least 18 doctors were killed, and more than 50 were injured. In addition, 123 health facilities were destroyed and 746 damaged.
2:25 PM State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience: At least 183 religious buildings in 14 regions of Ukraine have been completely destroyed or subjected to destruction of varying degrees since the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression.
● Among the structures damaged as a result of the Russian attack, 5 are Muslim, 5 are Jewish, and the remaining 173 are Christian.
1:59 PM Barva Invest: Ukraine will harvest half as much wheat as it was predicted before the war.
● Given the partially occupied Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, where wheat, barley and sunflower are grown more, as well as the failure of farmers to comply with agronomic measures, it is expected that the wheat harvest will be significantly less - at the level of 16.5 million tons, which is half that predicted before the war. - he said.
1:49 PM Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense: The Russians want to blame the Ukrainians for the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theatre.
● The Russian Federation is preparing for publication its own pseudo-investigation into the circumstances of the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater. The purpose of such an event is to try to remove responsibility for the murder of several hundred civilians who were hiding in the theater at the time of the strike. Most of them are women and children.
● Russian propagandists even found so-called ""witnesses"" who saw how ""people in uniform carried boxes"" into the building the day before.
1:34 PM Deputy Defense Minister: More than 50,000 women serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including civilian personnel. About 5,000 are on the front line.
● Also, the deputy head of the Ministry of Defense noted that there used to be restrictions for women in the profession in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but now they have more opportunities.
1:04 PM National Police: In Ukraine, during the five months of the war, law enforcement officers opened more than 1,000 criminal cases for collaborationism.
12:21 PM British Intelligence:
● On 20 July 2022, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia had expanded the scope its 'special military operation' beyond the self-declared Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics. of Lavrov claimed that the operation now included new additional areas, including the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, as a result of Western countries supplying longer range weapons to Ukraine.
● This is almost certainly not true. Russia has not 'expanded' its war; maintaining long-term control of these areas was almost certainly an original goal of the invasion. Russia invaded these areas in February and the occupation authorities have been publicly discussing the prospects for legal independent referendums since at least mid-March. There is a realistic possibility that Lavrov made the comments to pave the way for referenda to take place in occupied territories beyond Luhansk and Donetsk
● In the Donbas, small-scale Russian offensive action remains focused on the Bakhmut axis, but it is making minimal progress.
MORDOR (Russia)
July 25
11:47 AM Russian confectioners have lost emulsifiers and dyes due to EU sanctions.
● Sweets manufacturers lack emulsifiers and coloring agents, which are under sanctions. They are going to ask the EU to remove the ingredients from the restrictions. However, lawyers consider the chances of success extremely small.
11:06 AM Financial Times: China stopped investments in Russia through its Belt and Road Initiative. Beijing has not concluded agreements with Russian organizations in the current year as part of this initiative, signaling Beijing’s reluctance to face sanctions following the war in Ukraine.
10:47 AM The ship named PAWELL was unloaded in the Turkish port of Izmir, which came from the port of Russian-occupied Sevastopol. The Russians took the grain stolen in the south and east of Ukraine. According to Marine Traffic, the ship is now in the Aegean Sea and traveling to the port of the Caucasus (Russia). PAWELL sails under the flag of Syria.
July 24
7:37 PM Medusa - Russian Foreign Minister Serhii Lavrov: Russia, Turkiye and one more participant, which will be determined later, will escort ships with Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea.
● Declared that Russia’s mission is to rid Ukraine of its anti-historical and anti-human regime.
○ We pity the Ukrainian people whose history is being destroyed, and who are being brainwashed by Kyiv that Russia is Ukraine’s eternal enemy.
○ We will do everything in our power to help rid the Ukrainian people of the Kyiv regime.
6:50 PM: In Moscow, 8 people were detained for laying flowers at the "Wall of Sorrow". The action was held under the name "In memory of the victims of Putinism and Stalinism."
6:35 PM The Insider: Russian contract soldiers who refuse to continue participating in the war with Ukraine are being held in custody in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region and forced to return to the front.
● At the same time, the military command of the Russian Federation declares to their relatives that they are not involved in the detention, and the contract soldiers are being held by "Luhansk military."
6:03 PM Liberal Democratic Party: The State Duma of the Russian Federation proposes to rename the Kyiv railway station, located in Moscow, into Briansk railway station.
3:41 PM In occupied Donetsk, local residents complain about Russian soldiers who ride tanks and destroy roads in the city.
2:30 PM Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: Citizens of Russia refuse to do military service in the army of the occupying country.
● If in the first months the same BARS - the "combat army reserve of the country", as they call it, was actively involved and we know how the formation of these battalions went and is going on - now there are already signs that Russian citizens refuse to sign contracts.
● In BARS they refuse to sign contracts for service, because they understand that they will immediately be sent to our territory to conduct hostilities.
● Pilots and aviation personnel of Russian state-owned airlines operating within the structure of the Russian Ministry of Defense are involved in the Russian military aggression against Ukraine.
● The crews of the An-124-100 and Il-76 MD aircraft have repeatedly transported personnel, weapons and military equipment to participate in the war against the people of Ukraine.
12:13 PM In Russia, the list of "unfriendly" countries was again expanded to include the Bahamas and the islands of Guernsey and Man.
SUMY
July 25
10:02 AM Regional Military Administration:
● Last night, at 10 p. m., the Russians opened mortar fire in the vicinity of Bilopillia. 4 attacks. There were no losses and destruction.
● At 1.30 a. m., they launched 20 rockets from MRL “Graf” and shelled the territory of the Krasnopillia territorial community.
KHARKIV
July 25
10:27 AM Regional Military Administration
● The consequences of the night shelling of Chuhuiv.
○ The House of Culture, where people were hiding in the basement, was destroyed by the Russians. Three people were rescued from the rubble, but there were still people in the basement, and all services continue to work.
○ Russians damaged residential buildings, and educational institutions and hit an open area.
○ In one of the rooms there were people who trapped under the rubble. 3 people have been released by rescuers.
● Russians shelled residential sectors in the village of Korobochkyne and of Pechenihy several times. There was a fire in a wheat field outside the settlements, with an area of one hectare.
● In the Bohodukhiv district, the roof of the farm warehouse was burnt due to the shelling. Russian shelling was also recorded in the Izium region.
July 24
9:16 PM Regional Military Administration: The format of the educational process in the Kharkiv region will be agreed upon closer to the beginning of the academic year
● According to him, 17 schools in the region were completely destroyed, 200 were damaged. 21 higher education institutions out of 24 were also affected. Another 300 educational institutions are located on the territory occupied by the Russian Federation.
● Among the institutions that survived and remained under the control of Ukraine, 56 have shelters that meet security requirements.
2:56 PM Mayor: The invaders started shelling public transport stops in Kharkiv. He urged citizens to only use the subway.
LUHANSK
July 25
10:08 AM The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated 100 Russians in a hotel in the town Khrustalnyi.
8:37 AM Regional Military Administration: The Russian troops tried to get to the border of the Luhansk region, but withdrew
● In the last 24 hours, the Russians fired 3 rockets and carried out 3 massive artillery attacks, and 2 long mortar shells.
● Three more times the Russians tried to develop a tank offensive.
DONETSK
July 25
11:29 AM: In 24 hours, the Donbas police recorded 26 war crimes committed by Russia.
● The Russian troops attacked the towns of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Zalizne, Toretsk, Mykoliavka, Kurdiumivka, Petrivka, Pivdenne, the villages of Halytsynivka, Ivanhrad, Lysivka, Novomykolaivka, Pavlivka, and Sukha Balka.
● Russians destroyed and damaged forty civilian facilities: 32 houses, a greenhouse, a hangar, a tractor, and power lines.
10:58 AM Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol: Posted a video of the movement of grain trucks that were driving through the city towards the port from the Donetsk direction.
● According to him, the electricity supply to the port has been resumed and preparations in the port are underway for grain transshipment.
9:46 AM Regional Military Administration: On 24 July, Russians wounded eight civilians of Donbas: three in Pavlivka, one in Bakhmut, one in Halytsynivka, one in Novomykolaivka, one in Pivdenne, and one in Siversk.*
12:24 AM Slоvyansk city military administration: Due to the war, it will not be possible to start the centralized heating season with the onset of cold weather.
● “We understand that if the temperature is below zero, the water tank will freeze. The cistern that we will drive and leave for the night will freeze. You will heat your apartment - this is if there is electricity, but the sewage system will freeze.
● Here you need to seriously think about how to proceed, how to survive. Precisely to survive, because there will actually be no heating season".Lyakh added that the inhabitants of Slоvyansk need to evacuate, since there will still be an attempt to capture the city by Russian troops.
● According to Lyakh, about 22 thousand people remain in Slavyansk, of which about 3-4 thousand are children.
July 24
10:53 PM Mayor of Pokrovsk: In the Donetsk region, as a result of hostilities, the Karlovskaya filtration station was de-energized, a number of settlements were left without water supply
6:35 PM Adviser to the mayor: In the temporarily occupied Mariupol, the Russians dismantled and removed the fountain from the Theater Square. They even stole water sprinklers.
● Yesterday, a grenade exploded in a private courtyard in Mariupol. Two civilians were injured, one is in serious condition
○ “Several drunken military soldiers (in the form of“ DPR troops) were walking loudly. A local resident made a remark. In response, the invaders threw a grenade into his yard.
ZAPORIZHYA
July 25
10:33 AM Regional Military Administration: Yesterday at 3 p.m. the Russians began shelling the Nobooleksandrivka territorial community of Zaporizhzhia District. The loud sounds of these explosions were heard in the regional center last night and tonight. There were no casualties. Russians destroyed houses, infrastructure, and an agricultural firm in the village of Yulivka.
9:40 AM National Police Service: In the Zaporizhzhya region reports that Russians over the past day shelled civilian infrastructure in the areas of Mala Tokmachka and Orikhiv.
July 24
4:44 PM Mayor of Melitopol: In occupied Melitopol, doctors refuse to receive salaries in Russian rubles, which Russian soldiers impose on them. Doctors continue to work, but do not accept payment in the currency of the Russian Federation. According to him, a large number of doctors left the city. The remaining doctors cannot cover all the needs of citizens for help.
DNIPRO
July 24
11:21 PM Nikopol military administration: Announced volleys of MLRS from the territory of Energodar in the direction of Zaporizhia an hour ago.
KHERSON
July 25
10:10 AM The Security Service of Ukraine: All collaborators and traitors who joined the occupation of «Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia» in the Kherson region have been identified.
● The «Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kherson Region», created by the Russians, carries out tasks to suppress resistance and intimidation of residents of the temporarily occupied regions. This occurs through mass repression, persecution, and unlawful detention of citizens.
● For this, the Russians have resumed the activity of the regional police unit «Berkut».
● Psychological pressure, violence, and death threats are used against the victims. Kidnapping and torture of people have been also documented. Also, collaborators, under the guidance of the special services of Russia, recruit «like-minded» people.
10:17 AM Security Service of Ukraine: During the operational actions, the Security Service officers collected all the constituent data of each traitor, documented the criminal activity, and established the places of their stay and travel routes.*
According to the Security Council of Ukraine, 26 representatives of the «regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs» have already been informed about the suspicion. 14 of them are ex-employees of the National Police.
9:40 AM Deputy head of the Occupational State Administration: Ukrainian hryvnia will be removed from circulation in the territory of the Kherson region, residents will use only Russian ruble in the region.
July 24
8:08 PM Regional Military Administration: Temporarily occupied Kherson and the region will be liberated from the Russians by September
● "The turning point at the front in the Kherson region has already arrived. Based on the results of this turning point, the Kherson region will definitely be liberated by September"
● Russian soldiers in Kherson are forcing local entrepreneurs to re-register their business, but for this you need to get a passport of the Russian Federation.
● It is reported that the occupied region remains without communication from Ukrainian mobile operators for almost two months. The Internet is still working, but traffic goes through Russia, so many services work only through VPN. Markets and shops were filled with goods imported from Russia labeled with famous Ukrainian brands.
3:29 PM Operational Command Pivden (South): Missile and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an enemy S-300 air defense system in the area of Zelenotropinsky, Kherson region.
● It is also noted that several transport infrastructure facilities in the temporarily occupied territory were taken under fire control, which significantly limits the maneuverability and logistics of the Russian troops.
2:45 PM First Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional Council: Russian soldiers are trying to restore damaged bridges in the Kherson region as soon as possible to supply equipment and ammunition to the front line. Loss of the bridges across the Dnieper River will cut off Russians operating on the right bank of the Dnieper River.
● The military of the Russian Federation conducted searches in the residents of Nyzhnikh Syrogoz, Kherson region. The Russians went around the houses, checked passports and documents for cars.
ODESA
July 25
12:00 PM: Regional Military Administration - With the help of the Bayraktar TB2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine damaged the Russian P-275 boat of the 'Raptor' type. It was evacuated to one of the Russian-controlled ports.
KHMELNYTSKYI
July 25
12:25 AM Air Force Command: The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed all four Russian Caliber cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea in the direction of the Khmelnytskyі region
● "Earlier, we reported on the downing of three missiles by anti-aircraft missile units of the "Zakhid" air command. According to updated information, the fourth missile was also destroyed by the anti-aircraft defense of the Pivden air command," the message says.
July 24
7:37 PM Regional Military Administration: announced new details of today's shelling of the region.
● Fragments of downed Russian missiles fell in two districts of the region, one of them led to a fire in the forest. The fire was extinguished, there were no casualties.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
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