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Latest information on the situation on the front line as of July 14 (updated)
2026-07-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFront] 21:29 Onvideo: Military personnel of the Sever counter-UAV unit shoot down the Bliskavka UAV.

20:05 Doctors of the Center group provide medical assistance to wounded servicemen in the immediate vicinity of the line of contact.

18:27 FPV interceptor operators of the Zapad groupare tracking and destroy hexacopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansk direction.

15:47 Emergency Ministry employees wounded during a second attack by a Ukrainian UAV while extinguishing a fire at a truck parking lot in Luhansk, Head of the Republic Leonid Pasechnik reported.

Another enemy attack in Luhansk targeted a moving civilian truck. The 49-year-old driver was seriously injured.

In Rubizhne, a drone struck a private property, injuring a 73-year-old man who was outside.

In total, on Monday evening and Tuesday night, air defense systems and mobile fire groups shot down over 30 air targets.

15:10 During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued attacks on Ukrainian ports and ships deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Two dry cargo ships were hit by attack drones while en route from the port of Chornomorsk in the Odessa region to the port of Odessa.

In the port of Yuzhny (state enterprise "Sea Trade Port "Yuzhny") high-precision air-launched weapons were struck

infrastructure facilities of the logistics center of the transport company "MigTrans",

12 trucks and a fuel tanker transporting military cargo and fuel for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

14:29 FPV drone operators of the 69th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the North Guards destroyed three enemy ground robots were hit in the Volchansky district of the Khar'kov region: the first near the village of Rubezhnoye – the enemy was attempting to deliver supplies to its positions in the adjacent vast forest area; the second and third ground robots were destroyed near the village of Bugayevka.

13:26 Units of the Southern Group of Forces destroy enemy manpower and equipment in populated areas located beyond Konstantinovka.

Artillery personnel destroyed two Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV control points in Alekseevo-Druzhkovka.

FPV drone crews burned ground robotic systems that were delivering ammunition and supplies to Ukrainian militants in Druzhkovka and Kondratovka.

12:40 Ministry of Defense summary of the progress of the Special Military Operation as of July 14, 2026

Units of the "North" force group have improved their tactical position. They have inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized brigade and the territorial defense brigade near the villages of Khoten, Stari Virki, Mohrytsia, and Ryzhevka in Sumy Oblast.

In the Khar'kov region, the formations of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kazachya Lopan, Yurchenkovo, Bely Kolodez and Zakharovka in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 servicemen, four vehicles, a field artillery gun, and two electronic warfare stations.

Units of the "West" force group have occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They have inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an airmobile brigade, and a territorial defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Arkadevka, Gorokhovatka, and Podliman in the Khar'kov region, and Mayaki, Shchurovo, Rubtsy, and Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to over 210 servicemen, 15 vehicles, a 155mm M777 howitzer and a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery station.

Units of the Southern Group of Forces have improved their position along the forward edge. Formations of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial defense brigade have been defeated near the settlements of Nikolaevka, Slavyansk, Nikonorovka, Kramatorsk, Izhevka, Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, and Kondratovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

In one day, the enemy lost up to 140 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 19 vehicles, and five field artillery pieces.

Units of the Center Group of Forces improved their tactical position. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Novonikolaevka, Raiskoye, Rubezhnoye, Gornyak, Krasnoyarskoye, Svetloye, Sergeyevka, Maryevka, and Zolotoy Kolodez of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 330 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, three cars, a radio-electronic reconnaissance station, and an electronic warfare station.

Units of the "East" force group advanced deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated the personnel and equipment of the assault, Jaeger, and three airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a naval infantry brigade near the settlements of Gavrilovka, Velykomykhaylivka, Vasylkivka, and Kolomiytsy in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Lyubitske and Novosoloshino in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

The enemy lost over 475 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and 11 cars.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades and the unmanned systems brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Yurkovka, Yulievka, Grigorovka and Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Up to 65 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 16 vehicles and five electronic warfare stations were destroyed.

12:13 Russian Aerospace Forces crews destroyed the enemy's embankment crossing over the Seversky Donets River using FAB-500 aerial bombs near the village of Mayaki in the Kramatorsk district.

11:50 Over the past 24 hours, as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces died two civilians from the Kherson region were killed, and five people were injured.

11:12 Soldiers of the 49th Combined Arms Army destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities on the right bank of the Dnieper

A drone operator detected the movement of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the courtyard of a house. Subsequent reconnaissance revealed an enemy electronic warfare station and a drone launch site.

"Strike drone crews destroyed the enemy's electronic warfare system and then struck a temporary deployment site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," the Ministry of Defense reported.

10:17 The Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces against civilians in several regions of the Russian Federation

Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will provide a legal assessment of the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces representatives involved in the crimes.

9:30 Summary about the operational situation in the Kursk region over the past 24 hours.

In total, 155 enemy drones (87 of which were fixed-wing) were shot down between 9:00 a.m. July 13 and 9:00 a.m. July 14. The enemy used artillery on evacuated areas 40 times. Drones attacked our territory four times using explosive devices.

A 41-year-old man was injured in the attacks in Rylsk. He will be receiving outpatient care.

In Kursk, the end of an apartment building and two cars were slightly damaged.

In the village of Novoivanovka in the Rylsky District, a house and a summer kitchen burned completely. There were no casualties.

9:04 AFU continue strikes on civilian infrastructure on the left bank of the Kherson region

Yesterday afternoon, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 25 shells from barrel artillery at populated areas of the Kherson region of the Russian Federation:

Aleshki - Seven;
Velikiye Kopani - Three;
Vinogradovo - Four;
Gornostaevka - Three;
Novaya Kakhovka - Six;
Radensk - Two.

Throughout the night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued their artillery bombardment of the Kherson region, firing a total of 17 shells from cannon artillery. The following villages were targeted: Proletarka, Dniproyany, and Korsunka.

Data on damage and casualties is being clarified.

8:35 During the night, from 20:00 Moscow time on July 13 to 8:00 Moscow time on July 14, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 288 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Tula regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, the republics of Crimea and Bashkortostan and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.

8:00 Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted group strikes with long-range precision air- and ground-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hit military industry facilities in Kyiv involved in the development and production of various types of missiles and UAVs, as well as port infrastructure facilities in the port of Yuzhny in the Odessa region used for unloading and storing fuel and lubricants for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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