[Korrespondent] 22.59 Since the beginning of the day on July 18, 193 combat clashes have occurred. The aggressor carried out 64 air strikes using 198 guided bombs, used 6,963 kamikaze drones for strikes, and carried out 2,462 shelling of the positions of our troops and settlements.
22.30 The occupiers are planning to develop the historical center of Mariupol under the guise of "comprehensive development of territories". This is a territory of almost 59 hectares within the boundaries of Mytropolitska, Kuindzhi, Shevchenko and Torgovaya streets. The designated area includes the former Oktyabr factory, as well as residential buildings.
20:45 Russians hit a residential area and an amusement park near Odessa. According to preliminary data, two people were killed, four more were injured, including a child. There may still be people under the rubble. A search and rescue operation is underway, the Odessa OVA reports.
20.20 Russians attacked Odessa region: four injured in strikes on Odessa and Odessa district. Trucks and cars were damaged as a result of enemy attacks. Fire also engulfed dry vegetation in open areas.
19:30 Russian military dropped three air bombs on Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, two people were killed and one injured. This was reported on Saturday, July 18, by the head of the Donetsk OVA, Vadym Filashkin.
19.05 In Kherson, Russian military attacked one of the important heat supply facilities. The Russians hit this facility more than a thousand times. This is an enterprise that provides heat to almost fifty homes of Kherson residents.
18.40 Russian military attacked Zaporizhzhia with KABs, there are wounded. The head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA reported that a 42-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were injured. The State Emergency Service reports three wounded.
17:00 From the beginning of the day on July 18, as of 16:00, the aggressor attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 69 times, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
15.44 The 425th separate assault regiment "Skelya" announced the capture of Kostyantynivka (Donetsk region).
14.56 The aggressor country Russia plans to mobilize more than 500,000 people in the fall to continue the genocidal war against Ukraine. This was reported by Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CDC) at the National Security and Defense Council, on Telegram.
14.11 Ukrainian military struck the Nafto-Service oil depot in Noginsk, Moscow Region, as well as a number of other important military and military-economic facilities of the Russian aggressors. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13.33 Russian aggressors struck a double blow to a locomotive and passenger cars of a train in Zaporizhia region. This was reported by the Minister of Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport Mykola Kalashnyk on Telegram.
12.48 During the morning in the Kharkiv region, Russian drones attacked Dergachi twice. As a result of the second strike, police officers were injured, the head of the city's military administration, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, reported on Telegram.
12.24 The court found a 19-year-old resident of Kyiv guilty of high treason and a completed attempt to commit a terrorist act and sentenced him to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. The Prosecutor General's Office reported this.
11.59 The Russian occupation army is changing the tactics of using Shahed drones and moving to single, but complex strikes in manual control mode. Presidential advisor Sergei "Flash" Beskrestnov reported this on Facebook.
11.38 In response to the attacks by the aggressor country Russia on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, two large logistics facilities in the Moscow and Tambov regions, as well as an oil facility, were hit on Saturday night. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this on Facebook.
11.17 Russian invaders launched a massive attack on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region. There are dead and wounded civilians, the Odessa OVA reported.
10.54 Fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces hit 13 more Russian shadow fleet vessels in the Black and Azov Seas on Saturday night. This was reported by the commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, on Telegram.
10.09 The Reserve+ application, which was previously reported to be down due to technical work from July 18 to 22, will mostly operate normally these days. The Ministry of Defense reported this on Saturday morning.
09.51 On Saturday night, Russian aggressors launched seven missiles and 90 drones of various types into Ukraine. Most of the enemy targets were intercepted by air defense units, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
09.33 Russian aggressors hit a residential building in Chernihiv region with a drone. Five people were injured, including three children, the State Emergency Service reported.
09.10 In Elektrostal, near Moscow, a fire after an attack by Ukrainian drones destroyed the logistics warehouse of the Wildberries marketplace. Monitoring channels reported this on Saturday morning.
As the published photos and videos show, the flames completely engulfed the huge warehouse, and the smoke from the fire reached Moscow. The distance from Elektrostal to the Russian capital is 60 kilometers.
Also in the Moscow region, an oil depot is on fire in the city of Noginsk.
As stated by the so-called governor Andriy Vorobyov, 24 people were injured at the Elektrostal warehouse, and two more people in Noginsk.
08.41 Over the past 24 hours, 276 combat clashes have taken place on the front. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational briefing on Saturday morning. The Pokrovsky direction remains the hottest, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled more than 40 Russian assaults per day.
08.08 In the Russian city of Kotovsk, Tambov region, seven employees of the Wildberries marketplace were killed after a nighttime drone attack. Another 24 people were injured, the so-called governor of the region, Yevgeny Pervishov, reported.
07.39 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian occupation army has lost 1,420 servicemen killed and wounded on the front in Ukraine. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational report on Saturday morning.
The Ukrainian military destroyed more than 2,500 units of Russian equipment, including one aircraft, three MLRS, six air defense systems, and 85 guns.
06.41 Drones attacked the Moscow region in several places simultaneously on the night of July 18. Warehouses and refineries were hit. This was reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+, which also posted photos and videos of eyewitnesses of the fires in the Moscow region.
06.16 An apartment building in Vladimir, Russia, allegedly caught fire "after a Ukrainian attack." This was reported by the Russian publication ASTRA, which positions itself as independent.
The publication's OSINT analyst, based on footage published by eyewitnesses on the night of July 18, "established that the outbreak occurred in a house at 2B Myru Street," the journalists said.
05.11 The temporarily occupied Crimea was attacked by drones on the night of July 18. Explosions were heard there and a fire broke out at the Gvardiyske airfield. This was reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Crimean Wind.
02.59 Drones attacked the Tambov region of Russia on the night of July 18. After the explosions in the city of Kotovsk, a fire broke out at the Wildberries warehouse. This was reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+, which also posted a video of eyewitnesses to the drone attack.