Ukraine needs 25 Patriots for full protection – president
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs 25 Patriot air defense systems for full protection, but declined to say how many the country has already received.
15 July 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs 25 Patriot air defense systems for full protection, but declined to say how many the country has already received.
Ukraine's defense forces in the Kharkiv region have done serious work to restrain a powerful Russian offensive from the north and this helped prevent the presence of a strong enemy group in another sector of the front.
Spain has begun transferring a new batch of military aid to Ukraine, which includes ten Leopard 2A4 battle tanks, several backhoes and a significant number of anti-tank missiles.
A delay in the U.S. decision to allocate a new aid package to Ukraine has weakened the country's position on the battlefield.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the number of F-16s that partners will transfer to Ukraine will not be sufficient for a full-fledged confrontation with a Russian fleet of fighter jets.
Russian forces shelled the village of Veletenske in the Kherson region, wounding a 74-year-old woman.
The Russian occupation army is redeploying its brigade from the Kherson region to the Vovchansk area in the Kharkiv region.
The spokesman for Siversk grouping of troops, Vadym Mysnyk, says no concentration of Russian troops has been recorded near Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
The Russian military command has deployed troops to run offensive operations in the Hlyboke area of Kharkiv region. Near the town of Vovchansk, the Russians are preparing amphibious assault groups for further offensive moves.
In the south of Ukraine, air defense forces intercepted four Russian reconnaissance drones on Monday.
In the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, a military unit on Cape Fiolent was hit by night shelling.
Over the past day, Russian troops fired 32 times from various types of weapons at the border areas of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, resulting in a total of 153 explosions.
Russian invaders have killed 561 children in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and injured at least 1,462 children.
In Sevastopol, in the temporarily occupied Crimea, sounds of explosions were heard at night and in the morning.
Over the past day, Russian troops killed one resident of the Donetsk region, and 11 other people were injured.
Russian forces launched 455 strikes using drones, rocket launchers and artillery on eight settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region on Sunday, July 14.
Russian forces attacked the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, with kamikaze drones and artillery late on Sunday and early on Monday.
Eight people were wounded in Russian shelling of Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Sunday, July 14.
Russia lost about 560,290 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and July 15, 2024, including 1,200 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
NATO has not changed its position and will not be directly involved in Russia's war against Ukraine.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that he supports Ukrainian strikes on military targets inside Russia.
The leader of Germany's opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Mertz, has called for stronger support for Ukraine, including for the supply of combat aircraft to Ukraine.
A resident of the village of Kivsharivka, Kharkiv region, was injured as a result of a Russian air strike.
14 July 2024
In order to destroy Russian Su-34 aircraft, Ukraine needs permission to strike deep into Russia with Western weapons, and such a decision could save many lives.
On 14 July, eight people were injured as a result of Russian army strikes on civilian settlements in the Kherson region.
An explosion was heard during an air raid in Kharkiv.
Russian troops attacked the private sector of the village of Bohuslavka, Kharkiv region, with guided aerial bombs, injuring a 21-year-old man.
Russian troops shelled Bilopillia, Sumy region, for half an hour with a Grad multiple rocket launcher system, injuring two residents.
Renewed Russian shelling has injured a rescue worker in Kherson who was extinguishing the fire that broke out after a Russian projectile hit a warehouse and dry grass.
Russian forces have shelled the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, with drones and heavy artillery, injuring two people and damaging residential houses and enterprises.