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Tuesday, July 19. Day 146. By Dmytro Aksyonov
The Russian bombing of the city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region resulted in the deaths of at least two other people who were found under the ruins of a private residential building, according to Ukraine’s SES.
In addition, a Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk resulted in the death of at least one civilian and ten others injured; five of them were hospitalized, the local government reports.
Russian forces introduced a rocket attack into a deal in the Odessa region, sparking a fire that injured at least six civilians, according to the chairman of the Odessa regional administration, Serhiy Brachuk.
On the night of July 19, Russian troops fired up to 40 rockets at the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Two trading companies were destroyed, said the head of the army administration of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Valentyn Reznichenko.
Russian forces seized 20 grain silos in the Zaporizhzhia region from the Ukrainian Center for National Resistance.
Russian forces have set up a morgue for their army worker corps in the temporarily occupied village of Borova in the Kharkiv region, according to the local administration.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, approved the creation of a transitional commission to monitor the use of Western-supplied weapons, an idea it previously advised through the head of Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak’s office. The stated purpose of the commission is to monitor legality. and the transparency of the use of Western weapons, and its creation comes after the Ukrainian government was criticized for its lack of transparency in controlling the supply of weapons.
Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar told a news conference in the Ukrainian city of Lviv that Hungary does not oppose third parties on its territory for the transit of weapons to Ukraine, an unexpected change from previous statements through Hungarian officials. While reiterating that Hungary would not get weapons, his comments signified a change in Hungarian policy, as many officials, and added Prime Minister Viktor Orban, had said in the past that Hungary would not allow third parties to use its territory for arms transfers in order to avoid being “drawn into the conflict. “
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the dismissal of the country’s Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ivan Bakanov, after President Volodymyr Zelensky issued decrees relieving officials of their duties.
The explanation given by the immediate turmoil of the Ukrainian government is the systematic failure of Venediktova and Bakanov to identify and withdraw Russian assets and potential collaborators from their respective agencies. In particular, the SBU has been criticized for the large number of defectors in its departments overseeing the southern regions of the country, which may have led to Russia’s immediate capture of the Kherson region in its first offensive in February.
Several Russian officials, in addition to former President and current Vice President of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, said that, from Russia’s point of view, a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is only imaginable under Russian conditions, adding Ukraine’s popularity of the separatist people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the “denazification and demilitarization” of Ukraine. suggesting that progress in peace talks is unlikely anytime soon and further raising fears that the war will turn into another frozen conflict.
According to Reuters, fuel flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline appear to be restarting normally, with the planned 10-day maintenance period ending on July 21. Materialize. Recent statements through German officials imply that the recent easing of fuel flows at 40% of maximum capacity has nothing to do with a Nord 1 turbine blocked in Canada due to sanctions. Russian power company Gazprom had cited the turbine, which in Canada for maintenance, as justification for relief in supply. The tests recommend that deliveries of Russian fuel to Europe will remain an explanation for tensions between the EU and Russia in the coming months.