How the country lived on July 12, 2022
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● Warm greetings to Putin from the Armed Forces and HIMARS. As a result of a nighttime missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region happened a grandiose explosion and about 150 Russian occupiers were destroyed, among them a general and five other officers. This was reported by the spokesman of Odesa OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk.
● According to Bratchuk, after HIMARS missiles hit the enemy headquarters in the Kherson region, the following people died: the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces (military unit 73954, Simferopol) Major General Nasbulin; Colonel Kens; commander of the 20th motorized rifle division (military unit 22220, Volgograd) Colonel Andrii Horobets; head of the operational department of the headquarters of the 20th motorized rifle division, lieutenant colonel Koval; Chief of Artillery of the 20th MSD, Lt. Col. Gordeev.
● Detonation of munitions at the point of impact of the rockets continued until the morning, reported in FB Serhii Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA. He noted that the Russian propaganda could not in any way come up with a version of where exactly the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine landed: “They say that ours hit the hydroelectric power station, then the hospital and residential buildings, then the Russian humanitarian aid center. And I was most amused that there was a hit on the saltpeter warehouses that belong to me.”
● Deathblow. In the occupied Shakhtarsk in the Donetsk region, after the attack of the Ukrainian military with the help of HIMARS on the positions of the occupiers, representatives of the military leadership of the Russian Federation were killed, namely, all but one of the deputy commanders of the Russian 106th Airborne Division. About this reported Strategic Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Telegram.
● On July 8, it became known about explosions at Russian warehouses with ammunition in Shakhtarsk.
● Russian hangover. All Russian drunken pathos about greatness «of the second army” ends in the morning with a collision with reality, confident Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the OP chairman. “‘Our air defense is shelling them like nuts’, ‘we haven’t started yet’, ‘it’s just a saltpetre warehouse’. Rospropaganda is generating more and more explanations why #HIMARS is destroying the network of military warehouses,” he wrote on Twitter.
● American weapons, including HIMARS, destroyed the myth of the invincibility of Russian anti-missile systems (S-300 and S-400), Serhiy Kuzan, head of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, told Radio NV. “I think that no one else in the world will buy these anti-missile systems. And those who bought will regret it very much,” the expert is convinced.
● In the captured Melitopol, at approximately 0.30, the inhabitants of the city heard explosions As reported by RIA Melitopol, at first the air defense system of the Russian occupiers worked. Then the shooting with tracer bullets began.
And in response, the enemy attacks civilian objects:
● The occupiers are terrorizing Mykolaiv. On the morning of July 12, Russian troops fired at Mykolaiv with the Tornado-S anti-aircraft missile system, also using cluster munitions. This was reported by Deputy Chairman of the OP Kyrylo Tymoshenko in Telegram. “The enemy massively shelled the city at night. Today it is known that cluster munitions and Tornado-S were used. Lyceum, hospital and private houses were destroyed. 12 people were injured,” he said.
● Vitaly Kim, head of Mykolayiv OVA, stated: there is a lot of damage in Mykolaiv after the shelling, the Russian Federation is taking revenge for the destroyed warehouses and command posts. «Today at 4 o’clock in the morning we were poured decently. So far, 19 missiles have been identified — Smerchi, Tornado. We have a total of 24 holes in the city. St. Nicholas and the ZSU protect us from scum. That’s why they’re freaking out,” he said on Telegram.
● BMP for the Armed Forces. Prime Minister of Slovenia Robert Golob and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz Agreed to speed up the delivery of Boxer BMPs to Slovenia, so that the official Ljubljana, in its turn, could transfer its still Soviet BMPs to Ukraine.
● Holob, who won the election in April, noted that the process of supplying the equipment was delayed due to the change of government in his country. «But we took it very decisively and have already sent a batch of tanks (Soviet T-72) to Ukraine. These conversations are not taboo for us. On the contrary, we will speed it up,” he emphasized.
● Will the Spanish give tanks to Ukraine? Ministry of Defense of Spain open to negotiations on the transfer of ten Leopard 2A4 battle tanks and 20 M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, reported the Spanish specialized publication Infodefense. They said that the department under the leadership of Margarita Robles gave permission for the possible transfer of equipment to Ukraine. Kyiv will finance its modernization and preparation for battles with EU money, and Spanish companies will take care of it.
● The decision may be a turning point, the publication writes, because previously the government of Pedro Sánchez was limited to the transfer of defense equipment.
● Will Iran give Russia drones? The White House has information that the Iranian authorities is being prepared supply the Russian Federation with hundreds of drones. Such a statement was made by Jack Sullivan, adviser to the US president. This was reported by Reuters. Among the drones there are combat drones. It is also emphasized that Iran will teach the Russian military how to use these weapons.
● Almost 38,000 “two hundred”. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia lost about 37,470 of its military personnel, 70 of them in the last day. Such data was made public by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy suffered the greatest losses during the day in the Mykolaiv direction.
● The occupiers also lost more than 10,500 pieces of equipment, including: tanks — 1,649 (+4 per day), armored combat vehicles — 3,829 (+1), art systems — 838 (+0), rocket salvo systems — 247 (+0), air defense means — 109 (+0), planes — 217 (+0)helicopters — 188 (+0), operational-tactical level drones — 676 (+0) and much more.
● Syria is safer than Ukraine. Russian generals translate their relatives to serve in Syria, which they believe «safer” than Ukraine. This was reported to the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “The higher military leadership of the armed forces of Russia does not want to involve their relatives and friends, who are serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces, to participate in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine,” – it was noted there.
● Non-traditional equipment of Russians. The Russian Federation is forced replenish heavy losses in the war against Ukraine with “unconventional equipment”. A statement by the British Ministry of Defense on Twitter said that the shortage of personnel is likely to force the Russian Ministry of Defense to resort to recruiting personnel from prisons for Wagner’s private military company.
● Can’t advance anymore? The army of the aggressor country concentrated on defensive operations in the south of Ukraine, and its main attacks in Donbas are not successful. Analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War reported this in their daily summary (ISW).
● Other conclusions of ISW analysts about the situation in Ukraine over the past 24 hours: the Russians conducted limited and unsuccessful ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk and west of Donetsk; the Russian army continued to carry out air and artillery strikes in the area of Siversk and Bakhmut; Russian forces conducted local ground attacks northwest of Kharkiv; the occupiers are concentrating on defensive operations along the entire southern front; Belarusian dictator Lukashenko is likely to continue to provide the Russian military with access to Belarusian airspace in order to demonstrate support for Putin without risking the consequences of direct military intervention by Belarus in the war in Ukraine.
● What it looks like «pause” in Donbas. During «operative pause” occupiers did not stop artillery and missile strikes, trying to seize small settlements located on the border of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in order to block large cities. Serhii Gaidai, the head of the Luhansk OVA, reported this on Telegram.
● «Our fighters are holding the defense and are resisting the attempts of the Russians to create conditions for future offensive actions,” Gaidai wrote.
● Enemy attacks repulsed. In the Kharkiv direction, the Ukrainian military is tough suppressed an enemy assault attempt in the direction of Dementiivka. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
● In the Slavyansk direction, enemy units continued their assault operations with the aim of improving the tactical situation in the areas of Mazanivka, Ivanivka, and Dolyna. All their actions were unsuccessful, the Armed Forces drove the invaders back.
● Trying to keep the south. Russian occupiers in the South Buz direction concentrate efforts to maintain the occupied borders and prevent the offensive of the units of the Armed Forces. This was reported by our General Staff.
● New sanctions from the EU are on the way. In the coming weeks, the European Union is planning issue a new package of sanctions against the aggressor country. This was reported by the Bloomberg agency with reference to sources familiar with the matter.
● Earlier, the agency wrote that the new package of sanctions may include restrictions on gold imports, measures to correct previous sanctions and an updated list of individuals and legal entities.
● According to the interlocutors of the publication, discussions on the mechanisms of limiting oil prices are ongoing, but it is unlikely to be included in the package of sanctions in the near future.
● Ukrainian grain will be given «green street”. July 13 in Turkey will take place negotiations on safe «grain corridor” for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products to the world market. This was announced by Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
● “Tomorrow, the Ukrainian grain waiting in the ports of Istanbul will be safely sent to international markets by sea. The negotiations will be held by the military delegations of the Ministry of Defense of Turkey, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, as well as the UN delegation,” the Turkish minister added.
● Spartz continues to attack Yermak. Former Ukrainian citizen and American congresswoman Victoria Spartz, representative of the Republican Party (that part of it that focuses on Donald Trump), statedthat the head of the OP Andriy Yermak should resign. She noted that after the visit to Ukraine, she stayed «disappointed to learn that instead of supporting its army and starting a nationwide effort to support it, Kyiv, led by Andriy Yermak, is actually playing politics.”
● «In addition, Kyiv seems to have money for the reconstruction of secondary infrastructure, but no money for supporting soldiers, for example, for the long-promised housing for ATO fighters,” Spartz wrote.
● Previously Spartz publicly turned to to Joe Biden with a demand to deal with Yermak. Some of her claims to the OP’s chapter are justified, but in general, her move is similar to the beginning of an election campaign on the side of Trump.
● Portnov fled the country. Andriy Portnov, scandalous lawyer and top official during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, left from Ukraine on June 3 through a checkpoint in Zakarpattia Oblast. This was reported by the journalists of the Scheme project.
● The State Border Service refused to answer the journalists’ request to explain the reasons for which the 48-year-old Portnov left Ukraine during the restrictions on the departure of men of conscription age, because «the content of the request concerns the provision of personal data, which is regulated by the Law of Ukraine «On the protection of personal data”.
● Also, Schem journalists asked the SBU to inform whether the service is investigating Portnov’s activities, in particular, his connections with the Russian Federation.
● Portnov has been under US sanctions since December 2021 — the Americans suspect him of influence peddling on Ukrainian courts.
And finally:
● Bald botox will die and not understand. Ukrainian host and volunteer Serhiy Prytula toldthat 10-year-old Valeriya from Kyiv collected more than UAH 20,000 for the Armed Forces by playing checkers. «Valeria. 10 years. She played checkers with people on the street. If a person lost, he paid for the game. Everyone who played with Valeria lost. Valeria is a world champion in checkers. And the sponsor of our fund. + UAH 21,000 in the piggy bank,” he wrote on Facebook.
● According to Prytula, “bald botox will die and he will never understand why he lost.” «And because our people cannot be defeated with such children,” he wrote.
Remember what yesterday brought, live in the present and believe in the future – your own and the country’s.