Moscow responds to the Ukrainian counter-offensive underway for days to recapture key areas such as Kherson with a shower of fire that is once again dangerously approaching Kiev .
Air alarm sirens sounded in the capital early in the morning as Russian missiles struck north of the city in the Vyshgorod district, injuring at least fifteen people. But the attacks did not spare the center, the south, the east of the country.
At least five dead and 25 injured are the toll of an attack on Kropyvnytskyi, in central Ukraine, announced the governor of the Kirovgrad region, Andrii Raikovitch. Three missiles hit a school in Mykolaiv which was almost completely destroyed.
Victims also in Donetsk : at least two dead, a man and a woman, remained under the rubble of a building hit by a missile attack in the city of Toretsk. The number of people killed after a Russian missile hit a hotel in Bakhmut, also in Donetsk, rose to three. A thermal power plant in Kharkiv oblast was also bombed: a 26-year-old policeman died.
In addition to the death toll and damage was the alarm launched by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk according to which the population of Donbass risks being cut off from "electricity, water, food and medical supplies, heating and communications". "Be wise and prepare to evacuate!", Is Vereshchuk's plea.
President Volodymyr Zelensky once again holds up the banner of resistance, promising, on the day of Ukrainian sovereignty, that the Ukrainians "will fight to the end, to the last breath, to the last bullet, to the last soldier" . Because, he explained, "every day we fight so that everyone on the planet understands that we are not a colony or an enclave or a protectorate".
(Unioneonline)
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Kiev to the Donbass population: "Prepare to evacuate"
"Be wise and prepare to evacuate!". This is the appeal launched by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk to the population of Donbass. People risk being cut off from "electricity, water, food and medical supplies, heating and communications" if they stay in the area, the deputy premier warned in a Telegram post, the Guardian reported.
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Turkey: "The first ship with Ukrainian grain will soon depart"
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that "in the next few hours and days" the first ships with grain will start from Ukraine's ports. "Officials from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN are working day and night to start transporting grain with ships waiting in Ukrainian ports in the coming hours and days," Akar said, according to an Ankara Defense statement. "The center is operational" added the minister in reference to the Istanbul institute that coordinates the export of cereals.
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Metsola at the Ukrainian Rada: "We will do everything for military aid"
"When I was at the Rada on April 1st, I said that we will rebuild Ukraine together. Today I go further. This is an opportunity to transform Ukraine. To better rebuild a modern, sustainable, resilient Ukraine". This was stated by the president of the Eurochamber Roberta Metsola, speaking by video link to the Parliament of Kiev on the occasion of the Day of the Ukrainian State. "I know how essential it is for the rest of the democratic world to continue to provide military support to Ukraine and, as I promised, the EU Parliament and I will continue to do everything possible to make this happen," he added.
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Russia, media: "Revocation of Novaya Gazeta registration requested"
The Russian communications authority, Romkomnadzor, has asked for the registration of the prestigious Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta to be canceled as a mass media: Tass claims this, citing the Basmanny court in Moscow. "On July 26, the court received a request from Roskomnadzor against Novaya Gazeta to deregister as the media," the court said according to Tass. Novaya Gazeta was forced to suspend operations in Russia due to pressure from the authorities after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops.
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Attack on Mykolaiv in the night, a school destroyed
Several local Ukrainian sources report in these hours an attack by Russian forces during the night against the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, in which considerable damage is reported, including those inflicted on a school that would now be practically destroyed. An image of this is published by the Ukrainian emergency services, writes the Guardian, while the governor of Mykolaiv, Vitaly Kim, on Telegram writes of "a massive missile attack" launched this morning on the city.
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UK Defense: "The Ukrainian counter-offensive in Kherson picks up momentum"
The counter-offensive launched by Ukrainian forces in Russian-occupied Kherson is, in the analysis of the British Ministry of Defense, "gaining momentum". In an intelligence report released this morning, the London Defense points out that Ukrainian forces have in all likelihood established a bridgehead south of the Ingulets River, which delineates the northern boundary of occupied Kherson.
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"Launch of missiles on the Kiev region"
Russian forces launched a missile attack on the Kiev region in the early hours of today, according to reports from the local governor that the attack hit infrastructure in the area. In an update on Telegram, also cited by the Guardian, Governor Oleksiy Kuleba reported on the attack launched against the Vyshgorod district, north of the Ukrainian capital, specifying that checks are underway to determine if there are victims. Municipal authorities in Kyiv have also issued an air warning indicating to residents to make sure they are safe.
