The Russians struck the center of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region

City Council: The Russians struck the center of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region

The invaders hit the central part of Kramatorsk. So far, it is known about one person killed.

"The strike hit the central part of the city. There are casualties. Experts of explosive services, and rescuers are working on the site," the City Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko.

According to preliminary information, the Russians struck with aircraft missiles.

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The Russian invaders at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant neglect the rules and threaten nuclear safety — Energoatom

The Russian military has once again violated nuclear and radiation safety regulations, exposing personnel to the danger of radiation contamination at the captured Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in Energodar.

"Yesterday, July 18, 2022, the Russian invaders that occupied ZNPP, forcibly took away passes from two plant employees and used them to enter the radiation zone of ZNPP Unit 2. Of course, they were not worried about safety issues and violated all the established norms and procedures for passing and staying in this zone. There was neither special clothing nor prescribed preparatory procedures for staying in it," reads the statement.

Energoatom also said that no one knows what the Russian military could have brought inside the premises and left there.

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More than 10,000 residents of Mariupol are held in filtration camps, Mayor Vadym Boychenko said.

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The second wave of evacuations began in the territories temporarily occupied by Russians, Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said

“Now there is a second wave, probably for the second week already. More than a thousand people are now in line for evacuation. It is about as tense as it was during the first months of the evacuation.”

The third wave of internal resettlement will begin with the onset of cold weather, predicts Fedorov. In his opinion, the heating season will not start in the occupied territories.

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The Armed Forces of Ukraine will strike at the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation and the positions of the invaders in Crimea when they are technically ready, Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Gavrylov said

“We have a constant threat from the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Given the new technologies and opportunities we are getting, we must confront this threat. We started with the Zmiinyi Island operation. We have anti-ship weapons, and sooner or later we will target the fleet. This is inevitable because we have to guarantee the safety of our people,” Gavrylov said in an interview with The Times.

He added that in occupied Crimea, “any goals are legal,” because it is an internationally recognized territory of Ukraine.

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Tanker transportation, which supplies energy from the Russian Federation to the markets of India and China, has fallen by almost 30% in recent weeks

The trend of reducing the consumption of Russian oil by the Asian market is clearly visible.

Against the background of Western countries' refusal of Russian energy carriers, the Asian market has become the main buyer of Russian oil and a vital source of income for the country's budget.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the dependence of the Russian budget on oil and gas revenues has jumped to 40%.

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A 28-year-old citizen of Sweden died in the war zone in the Donbas

According to the Swedish television channel SVT, the man previously served in the Air Force stationed in Uppsala, with the rank of lieutenant.

He died from a chest wound from a grenade explosion. Other details, including the name of the deceased, have not yet been disclosed.

He stayed in Ukraine for a couple of months.

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Putin may threaten to use nuclear weapons to deter Ukrainian counterattack — ISW analysts

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Ukraine needs at least 50 HIMARS and M270s to deter Russian attacks, and 100 for a successful counteroffensive

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The Russian military again deliberately shelled residential neighborhoods in Nikopol with multiple rocket launchers, firing more than 30 shells

At least two people were killed, and five times as many injured.

A Russian rocket struck a café in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing no less than eight individuals and injuring 56,