Ukraine's counteroffensive is behind schedule but is going according to plan - Reznikov
Although Ukraine's counteroffensive is behind schedule, it is going according to plan.
25 July 2023
Although Ukraine's counteroffensive is behind schedule, it is going according to plan.
Ukrainian air defenses have shot down all kamikaze drones that the Russian aggressor used to attack the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Moscow has already imported $100 million worth of drones from China this year -- 30 times more than Ukraine.
The explosions in the temporarily occupied Crimea are part of a plan to bring the de-occupation of the peninsula closer.
Enemy forces were seen moving through Mariupol, a southern Ukrainian port city temporarily captured by the Russian army, toward Berdiansk.
A memorial was held in Ukraine to honor a U.S. national, Nicholas Maimer, who was killed in action near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine as part of the 135th Territorial Defense Battalion which he had volunteered to join.
24 July 2023
In the Donetsk region, six civilians have been injured, including three children, in Russia’s shelling of Kostiantynivka. One child was reported killed.
Russian troops are actively using aircraft with guided bombs in the Kherson region. Destroying air defense systems is one of steps towards weakening the enemy aviation.
It is very important that Ukraine’s defense and security forces, and the entire state work as a single team for the sake of defense. Russia must lose every day – that’s fair.
Dylan Collins, a 35-year-old American video journalist from AFP, has been wounded in a drone attack, while reporting at a Ukrainian artillery position near the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut.
Twenty-three military clashes have occurred between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders over the past day.
This morning a new consignment of Leopards, ambulances, TOA vehicles, trucks, and different types of ammunition left for Ukraine.
Two dozen special blast suits purchased by Canada have arrived in Ukraine.
In Mariupol, the Russian occupation forces have mined all the bridges and erected defensive structures around each of them.
New satellite images of the Wagner PMC camp in Belarus have been published online.
During the offensive operation in the Berdiansk direction, the Defense Forces succeeded and advanced into the enemy's depths at a distance of 350 meters to 1.4 kilometers.
Fighters with the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have destroyed three tanks and an infantry fighting vehicle of the Russian invaders using a Stugna-P anti-tank guided missile system.
The Ukrainian military is already using U.S.-supplied cluster munitions against the Russian army on the frontline, and the first images of the shells have already been posted on social media.
Air Defense is operating in the Sumy region, a missile threat has been declared in the region, and people are asked to stay in shelters.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has strongly condemned recent Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure on the Danube River near Ukraine's border with Romania.
The occupiers are transferring trucks, tractors and other military equipment from the temporarily occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia to the temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian artillerists, in cooperation with aerial intelligence, defeated an assault group of Russian invaders that was about to attack the positions of the Defense Forces along an important highway in the Bakhmut direction.
Four people were injured in the Kharkiv region as a result of shelling, including a 12-year-old child.
A rescuer was injured in Toretsk, in the Donetsk region, as a result of enemy shelling.
The air defense is being gradually enhanced in the Sumy direction.
Many occupiers have already taken their families out of Crimea.
With the help of long-range missile systems ATACMS, Ukraine could destroy Russian coastal missile systems and ships in enemy ports.
Following the offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a total of 35 square kilometers of land area has already been liberated from Russian invaders in the Bakhmut direction.
The Ukrainian side will share a report with the United States this week on the use of American cluster munitions in Ukraine.
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has detained Yevhen Borysov, the former head of the Odesa Regional Center for Recruitment and Social Support.