Al Jazeera seems to be on the predominant occasions that marked the twenty second week of the struggle in Ukraine:
July 20
Ukrainian forces repel a Russian assault on Bohorodychne, a city within the enamel of the Russian advance within the japanese area of Donetsk. Russian forces have to take Bohorodychne to advance on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, within the coronary heart of the a part of Donetsk nonetheless managed by Ukraine. Russian forces might have secured Berestove, transferring nearer to their goal of Bakhmut, which is crossed by two logistics highways.
The Contact Group on the Defence of Ukraine meets for the fourth time and pledges undisclosed weapons deliveries.
The EU agrees to ban Russian gold and freezes the belongings of Sberbank, Russia’s prime lender, as a part of a seventh set of sanctions. Russia is the world’s second-largest gold producer, making $15.45bn in gross sales final yr.
In an interview with Russian newspaper Ria Novosti, Russian overseas minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned Russia had departed from its shrunken official aim of occupying the 2 japanese areas of Luhansk and Donetsk, saying Zaporizhia and Kherson within the south are additionally essential.
Ukrainian navy intelligence reviews that Russia is exporting stolen Ukrainian grain. Two Russian dry bulk carriers loaded with a complete of 54,000 tonnes of such grain, the Matros Koshka and Matros Pozhynich, have been reportedly refused entry in Beirut and have been redirected to Latakia and Tartus in Syria. Ukraine says Russia plans to truck the stolen grain from there to consumers within the Center East.
EU excessive consultant Josep Borrell says EU members agreed to launch a fifth tranche of navy help to Ukraine price 500 million euros ($507m).
July 21
Russia shells settlements in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts with out making any vital advances. Ukraine’s normal workers say their forces repulsed a Russian assault within the neighborhood of the Lysychansk refinery, displaying that Luhansk oblast remains to be not totally underneath Russian management.
Within the southern Kherson area, Ukraine says it has destroyed a Russian ammunition warehouse.
Mykolaiv state administrator Vitalyi Kim says Russia fires seven S-300 anti-air missiles into Mykolaiv metropolis, hanging a petroleum station and a fuel line, amongst different issues. The shelling of Mykolaiv district additionally continues, he says.
Ukrainian intelligence spokesman Kyrylo Skibitskyi says Ukraine estimates that Russia has used up 55-60 % of its complete pre-war shares of Iskander, Kalibr and Kh-101 and Kh555 precision-guided missiles through the struggle in Ukraine. The Iskander are land-based ballistic missiles. The Kalibr are ship-launched cruise missiles. Kh-101 and Kh-555 are air-launched cruise missiles.
Ukraine’s normal workers says the following British navy support package deal will embody 50,000 rounds of howitzer shells, tons of of drones and 1,600 anti-tank missiles.
July 22
Russian forces shelled town of Sloviansk, says the navy administrator of Donetsk oblast Pavlo Kirilenko. Nonetheless, they did not make any advances in direction of it or Siversk, which is nearer to the Russian entrance line.
Ukraine’s southern command says two ammunition depots have been broken.
Russia and Ukraine signal a UN-brokered settlement permitting the export of Ukrainian grain by means of the Black Sea. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms an settlement has been reached permitting Ukraine to export final yr’s and this yr’s grain harvests.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, says fears that Russia would possibly use thenaval hall that was demined for grain exports to ship a touchdown pressure to Ukraine have been “completely unrealistic”.
“The coast is already protected by coastal missile complexes, which make such actions completely unattainable,” Budanov says. “We don’t see any threats from a navy standpoint. There’s a developed fairway. Vessels will solely transfer alongside this fairway. No a part of the coast, apart from the indicated fairway, will probably be demined,” Budanov says.
Russia says it destroyed 4 HIMARS launchers between July 5 and 20. Kyiv denies the declare.
July 23
Two Russian Kalibr cruise missiles hit the port of Odesa, considered one of a number of ports included within the worldwide settlement on grain exports signed the day gone by. Ukraine says it intercepted one other two missiles.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says defenders in Kherson are advancing “step-by-step” to retake misplaced territory.
July 24
Ukraine’s southern command says it has destroyed an ammunition depot and 54 anti-aircraft weapons.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence says Russia is getting ready a brand new misinformation marketing campaign in regards to the bombing of the Mariupol theatre, the bloodiest atrocity of the struggle, through which tons of of civilians have been killed. Russia has reportedly invited movie crews to report a story of how the theatre was stuffed with explosives and blown up from inside.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence says Russia has forcibly recruited civilian pilots within the struggle in opposition to Ukraine, underlining Russia’s manpower shortages.
Russian defence ministry officers say the assault on the port of Odesa solely hit navy targets. “Within the seaport within the metropolis of Odesa, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse with Harpoon anti-ship missiles provided by the US to the Kyiv regime,” ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov mentioned.
July 25
Ukraine’s normal workers say their forces repelled an assault in Verkhnokamyanka, Luhansk oblast, suggesting that Russian forces haven’t totally secured the province. Russian floor forces make a failed try on Siversk, the city on the apex of the Russian salient. In neighbouring Donetsk, Wagner mercenaries reportedly take management of Novoluhanske, a city from which Ukrainian forces might have tactically withdrawn.
Ukraine’s southern command says it has destroyed an S-300 anti-aircraft missile battery.
Ukraine’s normal workers report that Russian commanders are responding to the sabotage of armoured automobiles – by troops who’re unwilling to battle – by sending troops into battle with out armour.
Ukraine’s agriculture minister, Mykola Solskyi, says Ukraine has $10bn price of grain able to export, and a further $20bn price of agricultural merchandise that may very well be exported after that.
Ukrainian infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, says Ukraine will accompany convoys of grain ships with rescue ships, and that they are going to observe rigorously mapped, mine-cleared corridors.
Ukrainian defence minister Oleksyi Reznikov says the primary Gepard German self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons are within the nation.
The top of navy intelligence, Kirill Budanov, will even head the Intelligence Committee, shaped on June 17 by presidential decree, to coordinate the actions of intelligence businesses.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence says Russian navy hospitals are swamped with the wounded from the entrance and can’t cope. It says Russia plans to ship extra medical personnel to occupied areas close to the entrance strains.
Ukraine says Russia has restored high-tension energy cables in occupied Kherson and is stealing Ukrainian electrical energy to be used in Crimea. Ukraine minimize the cables after Crimea’s annexation in 2015.
July 26
Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai says Russian forces nonetheless haven’t managed to take the entire province, and preventing continues in villages near the border with Donetsk. Russian forces make restricted floor assaults in direction of Siversk, and northeast of Bakhmut.
Within the south, Ukrainian forces proceed to degrade Russian preventing capabilities, destroying a command publish and ammunition warehouse in northern Kherson oblast.
Russian fighter planes within the Black Sea launch 5 Kh59 and eight Kh22 missiles into Odesa and Zatoka areas. Ukraine’s navy intelligence says Russian forces are partially restoring a concrete manufacturing unit in Melitopol to fix the runway within the metropolis and construct long-term firing positions.
Ukraine’s normal workers say the newest US navy package deal price $175mn will embody 4 HIMARS, 580 Phoenix Ghost kamikaze drones, anti-tank weapons and ammunition.
Ukrainian air pressure spokesman Yuryi Ignat says US-supplied NASAMS medium-range anti-aircraft missile batteries haven’t but been deployed. The US says it has provided two such batteries.
Ukraine’s air pressure says 4 Kalibr cruise missiles have been fired at Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine and all 4 have been shot down.
“The effectiveness of using air defence forces will increase exactly because of the human issue,” says Ignat. “We’re gaining expertise that we didn’t have earlier than, we’re higher organising the interplay between models, and this can be a notification system, and goal detection, and decision-making.”
Russian state firm Gazprom says it’ll halve fuel provide by means of the Nordstream 1 pipeline to twenty % of capability, or 33mcm a day. EU vitality ministers comply with scale back using pure fuel by 15 % between August this yr and March 2023.
