Cover image: Kyiv, July 18, 2023. Jae C. Hong/AP
- Iranian-made drones targeted kyiv around 5 a.m. on Wednesday, according to Serhi Popko head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital. The air defense would have neutralized these attacks, and according to the first information, no casualties or damage are to be deplored.
- For the second night in a row, and after the expiry of a crucial grain agreement, the Ukrainian region of Odessa has been targeted by Russian attacks including missiles and drones. According to Sergey Bratchuk, spokesman for the military administration of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine’s air defenses repelled the attack.
- The Ukrainian counter-offensive is “far from a failure”but the fight will be long, difficult and deadlywarned on Tuesday General Mark Milley, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, at the end of a videoconference meeting of the contact group for the defense of Ukraine.
- The Russian offensive in the Kupyansk sector in northeastern Ukraine is “currently unsuccessful”assured, on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense, Hanna Maliar, on Telegram. “The fighting continues, but the initiative is already on our side”she adds.
- The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, claimed that its troops had won “up to two kilometers in front and up to one and a half kilometers in depth” during’“offensive operations” near Kupyansk.
- Ukrainian forces engaged on the southern front, in the direction of Berdiansk and Melitopol, gained the upper hand in the battle of Staromayorskein the oblast of Donetsk, according to commander Valeri Cherchen, spokesman for a military press centre, quoted by the Interfax Ukraine agency.
- US to announce $1.3 billion worth of new military aid to Ukraine in coming days (1.16 billion euros), Reuters announced on Tuesday, citing two members of the American administration.
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