Attack on Soledar
Troops of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics together with the Russian army recaptured 255 settlements from the Ukrainian army during the special operation. This was reported by the DPR Regional Defense Headquarters.
Allied forces also occupied the village of Berestovoye, 20 km from Soledar. The attack on the city continues, it is directed in several directions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian command forcibly mobilized the local population to compensate for the huge losses in the region.
Soledar is located 20 km from Artemovsk (Bakhmut), a major transport hub controlled by Kyiv.
200 reserve soldiers destroyed
The Russian Defense Ministry said that in the last 24 hours, the Russian Navy destroyed more than 200 soldiers with long-range cruise missiles at a reserve training center for the Ukrainian army.
The attack with sea-based missiles was carried out at the point of the temporary deployment of the 35th Marine Brigade in the village of Dachnoye in the Odessa region.
In the Usatovo district of the Odessa region, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the launcher of the American Harpoon missile system.
Suppressed the positions of the Armed Forces
The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that Russian artillery suppressed the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where the border areas of the Russian region were gathered, with return fire.
Starovoit also noted that shots were fired at the Krupets international automobile checkpoint.
“Our army and border guards suppressed the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border of the Rylsk region with return fire. The governor said there were no casualties.
He noted that the power line was damaged and three settlements were left without electricity. There were repairmen at the scene.
In the past two days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine also twice bombed the border post of the village of Chernozemny and the village of Novye Yurkovichi in the Bryansk region. A fire also broke out in the village of Lomakovka. On 12 July, Ukrainian mortars fired 18 mines at the village of Belaya Berezka. There is a yellow anti-terrorism threat in the area.
Bombardment of the bridge over the Dnieper
The Armed Forces of Ukraine launches rockets for the second consecutive day from HIMARS MLRS on the bridge over the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
During the crossing, 12 missiles were fired, 11 of which hit the target, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civil administration of the region, told TASS. No victims or injured.
“The bridge has been badly damaged. Restoration is possible, it will take time. Most likely, we will block traffic. It will not collapse, it is impossible, traffic will be locked,” he said.
Antonovsky Bridge is a 1.3 km long automobile and pedestrian bridge over the Dnieper River, connecting the suburb of Kherson Antonovka with the city of Alyoshki on the left bank.
Bombardment measures
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during an inspection of Western troops that the Russian army should “forcefully suppress” the shelling of Donbass settlements by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Shoigu instructed to further increase the efficiency of destroying enemy drones over the border areas with Russia, as well as firmly suppress the arrival of new counter-battery weapons, taking into account the bombing of liberated settlements by nationalists, the RF Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
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