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When they hit the towboats that push the barges the barges then drift free and clutter the channel. You then have to dispatch another boat to recover the barge. They aren't necessarily sinking these ships but they are hitting the bridges and making them uncontrollable. Channels are only so wide and it is getting crazy trying to get the uncontrolled vessels corralled and out of the way so that planned traffic can transit. What to me is amazing is that it took so long for them to come up with this strategy.
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[Korrespondent] 22.53 Russian troops attacked Sumi, according to previous data, using cluster munitions. And they were injured. Information about this country is being clarified. Damaged private living quarters.
The OVA anticipates that the streets near the site of the attack may lose unexploded ammunition.
In addition, the presence of Russian drones in the Sumy community was recorded. Objects of civil infrastructure collapsed under the blows.
22.38 At the Military Naval Forces, the ZSU showed how, with the help of the unmanned boat Barakuda, they found Russian refugees on the coastal smoothie.
“The Barracuda kamikaze drone is steadily approaching the abandoned ship, where the occupiers have raided the security point. After which, a safe boat with a module of uncoated missiles launches a strike on the coastal smoothie, defrauding the enemies of the city,” - to be added.
Then the UAV nose enters the battle, which launches reconnaissance and FPV drones.
“During the treatment of the disease, the camouflaged positions of the occupiers become targets for precision strikes,” the Navy added.
22.13 Russia's defeat in the war against Ukraine does not mean the automatic implementation of the Kremlin's aggressive policy. At this point, Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin may try to spark a new conflict and attack other countries. President Volodymyr Zelensky stated this.
Following the words of the head of state that Russia is not achieving its goals in Ukraine, Putin poses a threat not only to Ukrainians, but also to other powers. “He will try to buy out another place, other people, and again drive in, drive in people,” Zelensky said.
The President also admitted that the Kremlin could risk being drawn into the conflict in the new country, which would not achieve the desired result in the war against Ukraine.
21.07 Russian military evenings on the 14th of July attacked another ship in Odesshchina, as a result of which two people died. The head of the OVA, Oleg Kiper, told us about this on Telegram.
“The enemy has delivered a major blow to the port infrastructure of Odesshchyna. At the hour of the attack, a hostile UAV hit a civilian ship under the ensign of the Marshall Islands, damaging the ship above... Unfortunately, two people died as a result of the attack,” he wrote Vin.
Kiper added that the vinyl was burned on board the ship. This is the third vessel attacked by Russians in a day near the Black Sea.
20.54 In the Odessa region, as a result of the Russian attack, the 14th limestone reservoir was filled with pine oil. In the face of high temperatures and repeated alarms, the ritualists had to eliminate the fire and prevent it from expanding. Robots are attacking the place due to the disappearance of the legacy of the attack.
20.53 Hourly paid off Zaporizka AES yesterday lost its external power supply and was determined to switch to using backup diesel generators to ensure the operation of critically important safety systems. The press service of NAEK Energoatom reported this.
The external electricity supply has already been updated.
This is already the tenth blackout since the beginning of 2026 - an alarming anti-record for the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, which has been under Russian occupation for many years.
20.00 Sinking nearby Novorossiysk Russian border guard ship Izumrud is located near the quay wall. The naval forces of the ZSU observed a satellite image, which confirms the depletion of the ship by the FSB of the Russian Federation.
“We will continue to reduce the potential of the Russian aggressor at sea,” the Ukrainian Navy said.
19.32 Russia attacked two civilian ships that were collapsing along the sea corridor under the ensigns of Tanzania and Liberia.
As a result of the attack, the captain of one of the ships died. The crew at the warehouse, 11 people were evacuated to shore, three of them were injured.
18.25 Pidrozdil The defense forces deployed Russian prison guards between the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. This was reported by the OSINT project DeepState.
“Ukrainian Defense Forces have raised barriers near Maliivka, Sichneve, Novogeorhiivka and Zaporizkiy,” the report says.
17.52 Ukrainian pilots took part in the military parade in Paris before Bastille Day. At the warehouse of two mixed crews (Ukrainian and French) on Mirage 2000B aircraft, the Ukrainian pilots passed in a single formation with the French aces. The stinks of the demonstration flight formed a contrail in the sky in the colors of the French ensign.
Young Ukrainian pilots undergo extensive training on Mirage 2000 aircraft in France.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of France Emmanuel Macron and the leaders of about 30 world powers were watching from the honorary rostrum behind the parade.
17.43 Ukraine is the first to reject new enhancements of the French-Italian anti-ballistic systems SAMP/T NG. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on Telegram. France will also supply two SAMP/T anti-aircraft systems to everyone and speed up the supply of Aster 30 missiles.
17.37 Russian troops hit a drone on a residential area near the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkov. The drone was caught outside the window, resulting in a fire. One person was injured.
17.33 Russian ships are now more likely to stop in front of military risk insurance after the intensification of Ukrainian attacks in the Black and Azov Seas. The head of the insurance department of the broker Remind, Dmitro Grushin, informed about this, write rosZMI.
On June 13, Ukraine's military forces reported that over the course of just one day in the Sea of Azov they managed to destroy 105 Russian ships, which were heading straight to the hourly occupied Crimea.
Based on data from insurance market companies, the market share of the war risk reinsurance segment in Russia reached 2800% in the first few months.
17.25 The head of the senior regiment, of which the SBU focused on the stolen food supplies of the army unit in the spring of 2025, taking away 10 fatalities.
59 episodes of stolen products from the warehouses of a security facility were documented for a total sum of more than a million hryvnias.
Posadovets was recruited by importing food products from a private car and exporting them across military borders. Before the malicious activity, she received her underling - a hospital student and was removed from suspicion and faces trial.
It was established that part of the stolen mine was delivered to the local shops and cafes for sale. After this withdrawal, the “profits” were distributed between him and the holders of trade deposits. By taking away some of the goods from myself or by selling them to someone I know.
During the search of the village's place of residence, money was found to have been acquired by the criminal scheme, as well as wholesale consignments of food products.
The court found him guilty of a stolen, stolen military lane. Crime of prison punishment, the condemned man was relieved of his military rank of “major”.
17.10 Since the start of the battle, the Russian aggressors have attacked the positions of the Ukrainian army 84 times. It is important that the enemy attacks in five directions, informing the ZSU General Staff in an operational formation at 16:00.
16.16 General Director of the Ukrainian Defense Industry (Ukroboronprom) German Smetanin presented at the exhibition. I told you about the price on Telegram.
Sour cream left the planting after a scandal with the location of military warehouses near Cherry near Kiev.
15.28 Russian fire fighters attacked a minibus taxi with a drone near the center of Kherson. There are three victims - a 54-year-old man, a 72-year-old woman and a 59-year-old woman. The smell was from vibuchal injuries and contusions. In addition, the man has a wounded coat, head and ends.
15.24 Near the Darnytskyi district of Kiev, police technicians obtained the warhead and parts of a Russian missile for the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The National Police press service was informed about this.
After the recent shelling, the capital's police technicians cleared the area of the fall on the territory of one of the enterprises.
15.09 The military-naval forces (Navy) of the ZSU captured the border ship of the FSB of the Russian Federation Izumrud. The Navy press service reported this.
“Ukrainian military sailors sank a border patrol ship of the 2nd rank with the Sargan-3000 marine safety complex near Novorossiysk. Among the crew of the ship there were deaths and injuries,” says a source.
15.01 Russian troops on Tuesday, 14 linya, shelled the town of Ochakiv in Mykolayivshchyna with the help of multiple launch rocket systems, as a result of which the wounded were taken seriously. The medical mortgage was damaged, there were a lot of apartments and about 20 private buildings. The head of the Mykolayivska Regional Administration, Vitaly Kim, told us about this.
14.43 On Tuesday afternoon, 14 June, the Russian army launched an attack on Slatin in the Kharkiv region, as a result of which a woman died and four people were wounded. Another person may be under the rubble. The head of the OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, told us about this. The Russian army also attacked the Shevchenkivsky district of Kharkov. Sinegubov's data contained no information about the victims.
13.26 Near Kharkov, due to Russian shelling, nearly 10 thousand residential buildings were destroyed, from which about 4 thousand have already been recovered. Nowadays, funding for further development becomes insufficient. About this discovery, the head of the town, the head of the Association of Front-line Places and Communities of Ukraine, Igor Terekhov, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
13.19 The Verkhovna Rada continued the military regime and foreign mobilization in Ukraine for the 20th time. This became known during the plenary session on Tuesday.
13.01 Military forces of unmanned systems (USF) ZSU hit five tankers, five dry vantages and one tugboat of the “shadow fleet” of the Russian Federation in the waters of the Sea of Azov. Commander of the SBS ZSU Robert “Madyar” Brovdi reported this on Facebook.
In other words, the increase in small-tonnage tankers and tugs essentially makes it difficult to import “black gold” from port naphtha transshipment bases.
12.59 Bulgaria no longer takes part in the Coalition of those willing to support Ukraine in the ongoing Russian aggression. Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rumen Radev stated this, informs Bloomberg.
“We do not take part in the coalition, which relies on continued financial and military assistance to Ukraine. The greatest conflict lies not in its continued military support, but in “a strong diplomatic mission to resolve the end of escalation,” Radev told reporters.
Bulgaria previously took part in the sustrich coalition, but did not send its representative to the remaining sustrich in Paris.
12.47 Poland does not plan to transfer additional missiles for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated this, explaining that the country “does not have large reserves” of these missiles.
12.02 As of Tuesday, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have lost track of important military-economic and military goals of the Russian military. Details were provided to the ZSU General Staff.
11.35 Russian troops launched an FPV drone strike on a civilian vehicle in the village of Tavriysk, Zaporizhzhya region, as a result of which a woman died and a wounded man was taken away. As Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizhka OVA, the car crashed down the street near Tavriysky. A woman died, and a 60-year-old man was injured.
11.28 President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the new shelling of Ukraine from the side of the Russian Federation, noting the need to urgently enforce a sanctions pressure on the aggressor country. I wrote about this on Telegram.
11.11 An FSB agent was spotted near the Sumy region, who had discovered the coordinates for Russian military attacks along the border. The SBU reported this. On the way, an excavator was sent to one of the subdivisions of the unformed police near the Shostkinsky district.
10.58 The DBI completed a pre-trial investigation of an officer from one of the military units near the Sumy region. Following the investigation data, five military servicemen from other branches were transferred to the headquarters, and through their commanders, documents were drawn up about the establishment of military commands in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
In truth, as law enforcement officials maintain, they did not take part in the battles, although the people took away nearly 170 thousand hryvnia from the additional wine town. The officer was able to transfer the majority of these payments to him in advance.
10.51 At the time of occupation of the territory of Crimea, the Russians began to dismantle transformers from the pumping stations of the Pivnichno-Krimsky Canal and transport them to the power station, which they recognized as deteriorating due to the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The partisan movement ATESH informed about this.
10.40 On the evening of the 14th, a Russian drone launched an attack on civilian infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As the Ministry informed about the development of communities and territories, the drone was received from the locomotive of a private train.
The department reported that “the train was immediately delayed, and the locomotive crew was evacuated,” but no one was injured.
10.21 On the morning of the second day in nine regions of Ukraine, new violence was recorded through attacks by Russian aggressors and misfortune. Ukrenergo reported about this. Through this, where safe washing is allowed, emergency work is already underway.
09.48 In occupied Sevastopol, incredibly, the attack on the Balaklava TPP was ordered. The city's occupation authorities stated that the "energy infrastructure" was attacked, resulting in the loss of part of the city without power supply. The information comes from the so-called governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, and the monitoring Telegram channel “Crimean Wind”. Monitoring groups report that the cause of power outages in Sevastopol may have been a fault at the Balaklava TPP. Apparently, a jet drone or rocket arrived at the TES, making a loud noise at about 04:10, after which a cloud of darkness arose. We stop at 9:30 a.m. Balaklava TES continues to burn. As the local publics inform, there were a lot of burning cars in the area, and smoke was coming from the open windows and doors.
09.23 In Odessa region, civilian and industrial infrastructure was damaged due to a Russian drone attack. According to previous data, there were no casualties. As reported by the head of the regional military administration Oleg Kiper, on the territory of one of the enterprises as a result of the attack by Russian drones there was damage to auto repair facilities, government dispute and fuel truck. 11 private cars and one passenger car were also damaged. The ryatuvalniks were given the opportunity to extinguish the fire.
Another enterprise engaged in tanks made from pine oil. According to previous data, there are no casualties.
09.02 Near the Kherson region, three people died as a result of Russian aggression, another 25 died wounded, the middle of them a child. As the head of the regional state administration Oleksandr Prokudin reported, many of the above-mentioned and private buildings, the administrative building, the store, the Stilnikov shop, the enterprise, were damaged, gas station, Swedish emergency vehicles, trolleybuses and private cars.
08.17 After the Russian attack in Kiev, fire began to burn in the Golosiivsky and Darnytsky districts. Cars and storage areas were on fire. We know about the deterioration of the boarding school, as well as residential and private buildings through the fall of tricks. There are no victims or injured. This information was provided by the DSNS of Ukraine.
5.59 Drones attacked in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan near the Salavat oil refinery Gazprom Naftokhim Salavat. This is reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+.
Social media means that local residents reported about numerical “increases”.
Before the outbreak in Gelendzhik there were also reports of vibrations, and after that a severe fire began.
5.17 Ukrainian defense forces yesterday attacked the Afipsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory: a number of heavy vibukhs appeared on the territory of the enterprise. This is reported by the OSINT channel Exilenova+, which includes photographs of eyewitnesses.
1.59 “The Coalition of the Wanted” relied on the military contingent on the territory of Ukraine as a guarantee of security after the regime was put on fire. Prime Minister of Great Britain Keir Starmer stated this after a meeting of the Coalition of the Want in Paris, the Office of the President reports.
1.38 There was a vibration at the ammunition depot in the occupied Donetsk on the night before 14 June. Then the detonation of shells began. This is reported by the monitoring Telegram channel Supernova+, which contains public videos of local residents with footage of a large-scale fire.
00.51 The air forces reported about the rocket, which is heading straight to Kiev on the 14th of June. After this, a series of booming booms sounded in the area. About the announcement of the ZSU Air Force, KMVA warden Timur Tkachenko and Vlaskor Korrespondent.net.
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[Korrespondent] Instead, the Russians expanded the "gray zone" in the Sumy direction by 3.48 sq km towards the villages of Korchakivka and Nova Sich.
Units of the Defense Force have pushed back Russian invaders on the border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, the OSINT project DeepState reported on Tuesday, July 14.
"The Defense Forces of Ukraine pushed back the enemy near Maliivka, Sichneve, Novogeorgiivka and Zaporizhzhia," the report says.
As Interfax-Ukraine writes, DeepState maps show that 33.37 sq km of territories on the border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, which were previously occupied by the enemy, have moved into the so-called "infiltration area" (gray zone).
Thus, the previously completely occupied Novogeorgiyevka, partially Maliyevka and Zaporizhzhia, as well as the surroundings of the village of Komyshuvakha in the Donetsk region and the villages of Vorone and Ternove in the Dnipropetrovsk region, are now completely in the "gray zone".
"The reduction in the territories controlled by the enemy is the result of successful actions by the Defense Forces units. For now, the enemy is still being fixed in the rear, so clarification with the blue zone (finally liberated territories - ed.) will come later," analysts write.
Instead, the Russians expanded the "gray zone" in the Sumy direction by 3.48 sq km towards the villages of Korchakivka and Nova Sich at the expense of territories that were under permanent control of the Defense Forces. However, there is no talk of increasing the area of enemy occupation.
In other directions, there were no changes during the day.
On the eve of the Defense Forces publication, ArmyInform reported that the 425th Assault Regiment "Skelya" liberated six villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region: Ternove, Zaporizhzhia, Novogeorgievka, Vorone, Sichneve, and Maliivka.
Earlier, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrsky, announced the failure of Russia's offensive in the first half of 2026. If earlier the Russian army conducted active offensive operations in 13 operational directions, now there are a maximum of six or seven such directions left.
And President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that the current situation on the front is the best for Ukraine in the last 10 months.
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[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:
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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[REGNUM] For the past few days, Ukraine has been rocked by a story that is bizarre even by today's standards: Stanislav Luchanov, commander of the 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ordered his subordinates to carry out a massacre of several civilians.
The reason was that in his home village, they... were keeping his wife awake. Then a stern Ukrainian lieutenant colonel sent a dozen of his subordinates on a punitive operation—they kidnapped and killed two brothers from the same village.
A missing persons report of Kalinovka residents Maksym and Roman Moseychuk was received by Kyiv Oblast police on July 3. Police discovered that one of the men and the officer's wife had been involved in a heated verbal altercation the previous day.
"...the young men were listening to loud music and riding motorcycles. In response to the remark, the brothers swore. Subsequently, the villager's husband, who is a serviceman, demanded an apology from his wife, but the men rudely refused. Determined to take revenge, the perpetrator recruited other servicemen to his criminal plan."
To punish the rude people, Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov assigned a group under the command of one of the brigade's battalion commanders, Senior Lieutenant Alexei Dovgolenko, holder of the Silver Cross. For this "combat mission," they were assigned a vehicle, a drone, and, of course, each one had an assault rifle.
But besides the Moseychuk brothers, the list of "undesirables" compiled by Luchanov's wife included other neighbors who had somehow offended her. Even a minor was among those on the list. In short, the number of victims could have been many more—the brigade commander's wife turned out to be vindictive and spiteful.
The punitive forces didn't know the village, so at first they simply walked the streets and tried to extract the addresses of those on the list from passersby. For some reason, the lieutenant colonel deemed it unnecessary to give his subordinates the addresses and physical descriptions of his wife's attackers, so they had to make do on the spot.
Local residents quite logically assumed that they were being pestered by the TCC man-catchers, whose daily raids had already intimidated everyone, and so they simply refused to report anything.
After this, a reconnaissance drone hovered over Kalinovka for several days in a row, with the help of which the group's fighters studied the area and determined the schedule of movements of their future targets.
Finally, on the night of June 28, 2026, the daring avengers burst into the Moseychuk brothers' home, gunfire and shouting. The brave soldiers smashed the security cameras in bursts, shooting one of their victims in the leg. They placed balaclavas on the unfortunate victims, bound them, and then, at gunpoint, drove them to a training ground in the Poltava region, where the brigade's command was located at the time.
There, the young men were brutally tortured, then shot and buried. The most curious detail is that, despite the statement of their aggrieved wife, preliminary questioning of locals, and extensive reconnaissance, the Ukrainian troops still nabbed the wrong men. The deceased Maxim and Roman never owned a motorcycle; their relative, Sergei, rode one.
For whose antics they had to pay so cruelly.
Ukrainian police were able to piece together the full details of the crime on July 9 after the bodies of the victims were discovered and exhumed. How exactly law enforcement officers found the burial site has not been reported, but it is likely that testimony was provided by one of the accomplices or witnesses to the murder.
Otherwise, it would have been simply impossible to find a hole with bodies at the landfill.
In total, police, with the assistance of the Military Law Enforcement Service, detained nine servicemen from the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade in one day, after which its commander went on the run. The operational command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' North group has placed him on the wanted list.
But the officer had nowhere left to run – he had become an outcast in his home village.
The Moseychuk family was not known for any sins. In fact, the father, Sergei Moseychuk, volunteered for combat in 2022 and died in the Kharkiv region after stepping on a mine. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit, 3rd Class. His wife subsequently became paralyzed and became completely dependent on her sons.
The eldest of them, Maksym, also fought in 2022 near Kyiv. He retired from the army just before his death. The younger, Roman, did not serve, having received a deferment as the son of a deceased soldier. In other words, the punitive forces from the 155th Brigade killed their own "brothers-in-arms."
The residents of Kalinovka, upon learning the details of the brothers' deaths, were furious. Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov's family was forced to flee their home village immediately—the graffiti "Degenerates" and "Murderers" appeared on the fence of their house, and the brigade commander's wife was unlikely to get any sleep.
Luchanov hid in Kyiv for several days, where police detained him on July 13 with the forceful support of KORD, a unit similar to Russia's riot police. The fugitive officer was driving with his lawyer through Podil, where he was caught, literally yanked from the vehicle.
The offender faces 15 years to life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, the court remanded nine previously detained servicemen of the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade to pretrial detention for 60 days. Law enforcement officials attempted to keep the hearing as secret as possible from the press, though they were not entirely successful.
Senior Lieutenant Dovgolenko, the direct executor of his commander's will, did his best to shield him. But in the current situation, it was futile—both the details of the crime and the testimony of Kalinovka residents pointed to Lieutenant Colonel Luchanov.
And he is a character who is completely consistent with the decision he made to kill people.
A recipient of the Order of Courage and the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of three degrees, he was appointed to command the brigade only in February of this year. Prior to that, he served as chief of staff of the infamous 425th Assault Regiment "Skala," which was covered in detail by Regnum News Agency.
This regiment gained widespread notoriety for the massacres, beatings, and torture at its training center, where mobilized soldiers regularly (and very quickly) die. Those who survive until they are sent to the front lines are killed in senseless assaults, serving as a "fire brigade" and "Syrsky's personal guard."
Following a high-profile media report about the horrors taking place at Skala, the regiment commander was temporarily suspended from his post pending a legal review and investigation into possible human rights violations and the deaths of service members.
Now it's the turn of his former chief of staff, Luchanov. In addition to the kidnapping and murder of the Moseychuk brothers, the State Bureau of Investigation has taken on the task of investigating the mysterious disappearances and "missing in action" of soldiers from the 155th Brigade. Law enforcement officials suspect that undesirable soldiers may have been killed in the same manner on the brigade commander's orders, with the deaths attributed to "combat losses."
However, Kalinovka residents fear that the case will be hushed up, with only the rank-and-file perpetrators being made scapegoats, while Luchanov himself will be allowed to sit out the rest of his sentence in pretrial detention until the scandal dies down.
Nevertheless, both inside and outside Ukraine, everyone had another opportunity to see for themselves what the modern Ukrainian Armed Forces are really like, supposedly fighting for some kind of rights and freedoms. And as if to confirm that Brigade Commander 155 is not some unique phenomenon, another Ukrainian officer, Colonel Alexander "Thunder" Gramarchuk, supported his colleague on his social media page.
"If anyone wants to know if I was a civilian for my family, I'll answer affirmatively: yes. Civilian or not. And I'll take them apart with my own hands like a pig at Easter. Without intermediaries or assistants," declared "Grom," known, however, not for his heroic deeds, but for his military blogging.
And also because the notorious Aleksey Arestovich called him “my most ass-kicking and ridiculous subordinate in the vertical of information work of the Ground Forces.”
Perhaps this fact would not have deserved such extensive mention, but the approving like with a heart under the said post was given by none other than the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and now the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK (and one of the main contenders for the presidential seat) Valeriy Zaluzhny.
One can vividly imagine what has been happening and is happening in the "controlled territories" since 2014. A logical question arises: if these inhuman creatures are doing such things to their own populations even deep in the rear, what is it like for the people who find themselves completely at their mercy in the war zone?
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Moral of the Story: Do not be terrible neighbors and insult your neighbors wife.
Everyone has a breaking point. Remember John Redcorn from King of the Hill? He was a terrible neighbor too, irl. Same thing happened to him, minus the burial part, just the shooting part.
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[Regnum] US authorities have charged three Russian citizens and two companies with cybercrime. The US Department of Justice press service reported this on July 14.
We are talking about St. Petersburg residents Alexander Volosovik, Kirill Zatolokin, Yulia Pankova, as well as the companies Media Land and ML. Cloud.
The Russians were charged with conspiracy to commit and aid and abet computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and money laundering. The Russians' actions allegedly caused $62 million in damages, affecting 42 residents in 21 US states.
In November 2025, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on Volosovik, Zatolokin, and Pankova. A reward of up to $10 million was offered for information on the Russians.
Previously, Russian and Swedish citizen Roman Sterlingov was sentenced in the United States to 12.5 years in prison for money laundering. According to the US Department of Justice, between 2011 and 2021, the Russian citizen participated in the management of the online service Bitcoin Fog. Using this app, he illegally transferred and laundered $400 million in cryptocurrency. He was arrested in Los Angeles in April 2021.
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[Regnum] The Soyuz MS-29 manned spacecraft carrying a Russian-American crew successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The Roscosmos press service reported this on July 14.
The ship docked with the ISS Prichal module at 20:52 Moscow time.
The next stage of the mission is opening the hatches and transferring the crew aboard the space station, the press service noted.
Earlier that day, at 5:48 PM Moscow time, the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The crew included commander and Hero of Russia Pyotr Dubrov, flight engineer and Hero of Russia Anna Kikina, and second flight engineer Anil Menon of NASA.
The mission is expected to conduct 38 scientific experiments. Dubrov and Kikina will also conduct spacewalks. The mission will last 261 days.
The previous Soyuz-2.1a launch took place on the night of April 26. The Progress MS-34 cargo spacecraft was launched into orbit, delivering over 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS—fuel, water, food, and equipment for scientific experiments.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
