Ukraine War News Summary for July 20, 2020
- Russia is laying the groundwork for the annexation of Ukrainian territory and is installing illegitimate proxy officials in areas under its control, the White House says
- Ukraine’s 57th Mechanized Infantry Brigade has completely demolished an armed grouping belonging to Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a Facebook post on July 19
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the geographical objectives of Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine are no longer limited to the eastern Donbas region but include a number of other territories, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported
- On the evening of July 19, a fire broke out in the seaport of the city of Reni in Odesa following an explosion of a fuel tanker. As a result, one man died and another was hospitalized with 95% burns
- On the evening of July 19, Russian occupying forces shelled the center of Hulyaipole in Zaporizhzhya Oblast. As a result, according to early information, there are casualties. The shelling caused destruction to the buildings of the executive committee, the city council, the cultural and sports complex, the post office, and private houses
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- Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine, a regional official said Wednesday
- The command of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation is carrying out preventive measures due to the very low level of military discipline in the units, and drunkenness and insubordination against the orders of commanders are rampant
- One of the latest Russian fighter jets and the flagship of the Russian Air Force, the Su-35 Flanker-E, was shot down during a dogfight with a Ukrainian fighter in the skies over Kherson, Ukraine
- Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova speaks to CNN in an exclusive interview on why she was dismissed by President Zelensky
- Russian forces hit Odesa with six cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea this week, destroying residential buildings and a school, and wounding six people. The Russians claimed they hit and destroyed an ammunition depot there
- While Russian troops continue to attack westward in the Donetsk region, their artillery pounds Ukrainian positions and civilian areas behind the lines. But the U.S.-made HIMARS missile system is stopping their advance
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