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🚴‍♂️ Tour de Zaporozhye

Russian drone pilots thwarted the AFU bike ride attempt to rotate in Zaporozhye region.

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Into splinters: pilots destroy enemy temporary deployment area

🎯 The aerial bombs hit the target precisely, leaving no chance for the Ukranian servicemen.

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 22 July 2026

Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)

📍 The Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian units inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one AFU mechanised brigade, one marine brigade, and three national guard brigades close to Verovka, Rubezhnoye, Svetloye, and Dobropolye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ Up to 240 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station have been eliminated.

🚩 Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance to the depths of the enemy's defence and liberated Blagodatnoye in Zaporozhye region.

📍 Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade and two assault regiments of the AFU near Vasilkovka, Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region), Omelnik, Nezhenka, and Chervony Yar (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU lost up to 380 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, 11 motor vehicles, one artillery gun, and one Grad MLRS vehicle.

📍 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on a mechanised brigade of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade close to Orekhov and Yurkovka in Zaporozhye region.

▪️ More than 50 troops, 14 motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station were destroyed.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have hit two Neptune coastal missile launchers, logistics centres, long-range unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing shops, fuel, power and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.

▫️ Air defence systems shot down nine guided aerial bombs and 808 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation the enemy has lost:

▫️673 aircraft,
▫️284 helicopters,
▫️186,998 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️667 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️30,252 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️1,765 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️35,857 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️67,140 units of support military vehicles.

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 22 July 2026

▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

🚩 As a result of active actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces established control over Artelnoye in Kharkov region.

📍The Group's units inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Rubezhnoye, Novoaleksandrovka, and Chernoglazovka (Kharkov region).

💥 In Sumy region, strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of one AFU mechanised brigade and one territorial defence brigade near Mogritsa, Krasnopolye, and Khrapovshchina (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 250 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, one Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, one Verba MLRS vehicle, and one electronic warfare station.

📍 The units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU mechanised assault brigade, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade close to Izyum, Studenok, Komarovka (Kharkov region) and Tatyanovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 210 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 13 motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, and one Verba MLRS vehicle.

📍 Units of the Yuzhnaya Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops hit two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Slavyansk, Malotaranovka, Kramatorsk, Nikolayevka, and Druzhkovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️Over 140 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 31 motor vehicles, and four artillery guns have been neutralised during the day.

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⚡️The Vostok Group's units liberated Blagodatnoye in Zaporozhye region.

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⚡️ The Sever Group of Forces established control over Artelnoye in Kharkov region.

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💥 There will be no respite: the Yuzhnaya Group of Forces won't let the enemy come round and organise defences.

The drone teams detected small groups of Ukranian militants who escaped from Konstantinovka and attempted to hide in abandoned houses in Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka. Up to ten AFU servicemen were neutralised right in shelters by a couple of precise strikes.

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Cleaning up infantry path

💥 Artillerymen of the Vostok Group of Forces obliterated strongholds, dugouts, and shelters of the enemy in Zaporozhye region.

▪️ Now, it is impossible for the enemy to hold positions in this area.

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❗️ Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching group strikes with air- and ground-based high-precision weapons and drones.

As a result of the strikes:

▫️ infrastructure facilities of Port of Odessa (Sea Commercial Port of Odessa State Enterprise) used for unloading and storing military cargo, and tanks of fuel and lubricants intended to support the AFU were engaged;

▫️ a dry cargo ship and a bulk carrier, delivering cargo to the AFU at the ports of Odessa and Chernomorsk, were hit during the sea crossing (15 km and 53 km south-east of Odessa);

▫️ Novaya Pochta logistics centre used to store military cargo was hit in Odessa.

▫️ In addition, the AFU Neptune-2 coastal missile system battery close to Kovalevka (25 km north-east Odessa), two launchers and a transport-loading vehicle was defeated.

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Enemy's artillery falls silent

💥 FPV drone operators eliminated several AFU guns in Krasny Liman direction.

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Morning routine: neutralisation of firing points, logistics and hardware of Armed Forces of Ukraine

00:00 The Vostok Group's attack UAV operators neutralised enemy artillery positions in Dnepropetrovsk region.

00:10 The Sever Group's UAVs thwarted delivery of AFU food supplies and ammunition, destroying unmanned ground vehicles in Sumy and Kharkov regions.

00:20 In Dobropolye direction, the Tsentr Group's drones eliminated firing positions and brought down heavy hexacopters of the enemy.

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❗️ Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching strikes at the ports of Ukraine used to deliver cargo to the AFU troops and military facilities in Odessa region.

As a result of strikes with air-based high-precision weapons and attack drones, two ships were hit at the crossing by sea, as well as at Port of Odessa: port infrastructure facilities used to unload and store military cargo, and tanks with fuel and lubricants intended to support the AFU.

In addition, Novaya Pochta logistics centre used to store military cargo was hit in Odessa and the AFU Neptune coastal missile system battery was engaged in Kovalevka.

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Krasnopol blasts enemy off the map

💥 The Tsentr Group's artillerymen destroyed the AFU fortified positions, dugouts, and UAV command post by Msta-S self-propelled artillery systems.

📍 Dobropolye direction

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🚩 Units of the Sever Group of Forces gained control over the settlement of Volokhovskoye in Kharkov region.

💥 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching strikes at ports of Ukraine used to deliver cargo to the AFU. The targets were hit in the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Nikolayev.

🎯 Russian drones keep on working in Krasny Liman direction, as well as snipers in Dobropolye direction.

⚡️Logistics of the enemy suffers losses. Geran UAVs engaged motor vehicles at a parking lot and two logistics hubs in Chernigov region, and fibre-optic FPV drones hit the technological equipment of the Sumskaya Compressor Station.

💥 FAB bombs were delivered at targets of the AFU in Shcurovo, Dobropolye, and Orekhov.

✈️ Tu-22m3 long-range bombers performed scheduled flight over neutral water of the Baltic Sea and Tu-95ms strategic long-range bombers over the Sea of Japan.

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