🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Key takeaways from statements by Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Army General Valery Gerasimov

▶️ Gerasimov highlighted Battlegroup West's progress in the liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and assigned further operational tasks

▶️ Battlegroup West's primary mission is to liberate the DPR jointly with Battlegroup South and Battlegroup Center

▶️ Russian forces are completing the liberation of Krasny Liman, where organized Ukrainian defenses have collapsed and remaining pockets of resistance are being eliminated

▶️ Russian forces continue liberating Donbass and Novorossiya while advancing along all operational axes

▶️ Russian forces are advancing in the Svyatye Gory National Park and are eliminating Ukrainian troops in Svyatogorsk and Shchurovo

▶️ Troops of Battlegroup South are advancing toward Druzhkovka, with forward units entering Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka and engaging in combat

▶️ Battlegroup West continues advancing along a broad front within its area of responsibility

▶️ Russian forces advancing toward Slavyansk and Kramatorsk have liberated Piskunovka and reached the outskirts of Nikolayevka

▶️ On the Kupyansk axis, Russian forces repelled Ukrainian attempts to break into western Kupyansk and are advancing toward Shevchenkovo

▶️ Russian forces continue eliminating Ukrainian troops on the eastern bank of the Oskol River

▶️ Urban fighting is underway in Podliman in the Kharkov Region

▶️ Forward Russian units are less than 5 kilometers from Kramatorsk's eastern outskirts and are delivering fire strikes against Ukrainian forces

▶️ Heavy fighting continues within Battlegroup Center's area of responsibility

▶️ The settlement of Lenina (Mirnoye) has come under Russian control, while the liberation of Shevchenko, Krasnoyarskoye, and Svetloye is nearing completion

▶️ On the Dobropolye axis, Russian forces are expanding their offensive north of Krasnoarmeysk and are fighting in Dobropolye and Annovka

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — The Ukrainian army carried out 69 attacks on Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region in the past day, killing a civilian and injuring three others, Acting Governor Alexander Shuvayev said.

▶️According to him, air defenses shot down 169 drones over the region in the past 24 hours, while Ukrainian forces also carried out three artillery strikes.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian forces used an Iskander operational-tactical missile system and a Geran-4 Seeker UAV to strike a launcher of a Ukrainian Neptune-2 coastal missile system and a transport-loader carrying munitions in the Nikolayev Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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🇩🇪⚡️ — Germany's Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said that the terrorist threat level in the country has been raised to high, citing intelligence information and a growing number of signals.

"The decision to raise the threat level means that the risk of an attack must be taken into account at all times in Germany,"
the minister said in an interview with the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Among possible targets of attacks, he listed infrastructure facilities, state institutions, and German citizens.

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🇬🇧⚡️ — A policeman in England had to tase a criminal after he charged at him with a knife in an apartment building. The incident happened on the 12th of July and the doorbell footage was released a few days later.

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🇬🇧⚡️ — I am proud to leave the country in a better state and in a better situation than I found it.

— outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

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🇬🇧🇨🇾 ⚡️— The mayor of the town of Kouris in Cyprus opposes the expansion of the British military base and warns that the British plans to install new military antennas at the Akrotiri base will lead to the gradual militarization of the entire region.

▶️The issue concerns communications and surveillance systems, which – according to local authorities – will change the character of this part of Cyprus from touristic and agricultural to militarized.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Since the start of the war, 16 U.S. service members have been killed and more than 430 have been wounded.
— AP

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Protests in support of the dismissed defense minister are taking place in 14 Ukrainian cities.

Demonstrators are calling for Mikhail Fyodorov to be reinstated as defense minister and for Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky to resign.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧⚡️ — The United States is deploying F-16 fighter jets from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany to the Middle East region.

F-35 fighter jets are also being transferred there from the British RAF Lakenheath base — WSJ

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🇳🇴⚡️ — Over 400 people have been evacuated in Norway due to a major wildfire, the head of the Drammen city administration said.

More than 100 homes have been destroyed in the blaze, which local media describe as the largest fire in the past 100 years.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Another ship is on fire near Odesa.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Explosions have been reported in Sirik, Ahvaz, Bandar Abbas, and on Kish Island.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — People relaxing on the beaches of Odesa are enjoying the sight of a burning ship.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — A massive missile strike was launched on Kiev.

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🇫🇷⚡️ — In France, a government order to review all court files related to child sexual abuse revealed that around one thousand cases require re-examination, and 675 people have been arrested.

This is the result of public outrage caused by the court's failure to apply preventive measures against a man accused of child sexual offenses, which led to him remaining free and subsequently raping and murdering an eleven-year-old girl, Lyhanne.

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