🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"Kupyansk is farther than it seems

A number of federal media began to report serious successes near Kupyansk and the presence of advanced units of Russian troops 1-2 kilometers from the city outskirts.

At the same time, "military analysts" do not forget to mention the active advance and attempts to encircle the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the northern part of the settlement, often distorting the words of officials.

🔻What's really there?

▪️Russian troops have actually come close to Kupyansk and have been standing two kilometers from it since the beginning of this year. At the same time, from the north, the advanced positions of the RF Armed Forces are separated from the administrative borders of the city by a few hundred meters, only they still need to be passed.

▪️However, for a number of reasons, the settlement still continues to be under the confident control of the enemy, and its assault has not yet begun.

🔻What is the problem of actions on the site?

▪️One of the key problems is the complex supply, which does not allow to build up a large grouping on the right bank of the Oskol.

▪️It is also not possible to approach the city from the left bank at the moment. This is caused by both the terrain and the dominance of enemy drones in the sky, as well as the importance of this line of defense for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in connection with which new units regularly arrive in the area as reinforcements.

🔻And where are there real successes?

▪️Russian troops continue to expand their bridgehead on the right (western) bank of the Oskol. Since the beginning of the year, 6 settlements have already come under the control of the RF Armed Forces in this area.

▪️In addition, earlier, as a result of the heaviest fighting, it was possible to approach the banks of the Oskol and on the Kruglyakovka-Kolesnikovka line, thanks to which the front in this sector was divided in two.

🖍As a result, the comments of official representatives, modified to the form required by journalists, are in fact not tied to the situation "on the ground" and are designed more for momentary hype than for reliable delivery of information to the audience.

🚩It will be possible to talk about the assault on the city only after the full consolidation of Russian troops behind the river, which is what the fighters are now doing in reality.

❗️At the same time, all the words about the assault on Kupyansk and the real threat of encirclement for the enemy grouping in it are at least premature, and at most disrespectful to the soldiers advancing in its vicinity."

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🌐🆗🆕🇸🇾 — #VÆ: Telegram updated the default flag emojis and changed the Syrian flag to that one of Jolani's rebels. Now we need a customized old one. Maybe that's because of Trump given up normalization push with Israel. No Afghan new flag so far... 🤔

🇮🇱🤝😬🇸🇾💥🇸🇾 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Syrians Fear Israel Normalization Could Trigger Another Countrywide War | July 12, 2025:

"Many Syrians fear another country-wide war could erupt if the country's new post-Assad rulers make peace with Israel through a normalization deal based on Trump's Abraham Accords.

Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told reports that normalization with Syria and Lebanon is on the table, as Prime Minister Netanyahu agrees with Washington on a hoped-for expansion of the Abraham Accords.

"Israel is interested in expanding the Abraham Accords circle of peace and normalization," Saar said. Israel had already signed deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan - the result of Trump's first term in office."

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🇷🇺🙃🌟 — 🇷🇺 The Moscow Times | Russia Slams Report It Backed ‘Zero Enrichment’ Iran Nuclear Deal | July 13, 2025:

"Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday described reports claiming that President Vladimir Putin had encouraged Iran to accept a “zero enrichment” agreement on its nuclear programme as “defamation.”

U.S. news outlet Axios reported on Saturday, citing three anonymous sources familiar with the matter, that Putin had “encouraged” Iran to accept a deal with the United States that would prevent the Islamic Republic from enriching uranium.

The article “appears to be a new political defamation campaign aimed at exacerbating tensions around Iran's nuclear program,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🖌 AFU StratCom:

"⚔️Operational information as of 08:00 on 14.07.2025 regarding the Russian invasion

❗️Main points from the report:

🔵In total, there were 212 combat clashes over the past day.

🔵The enemy carried out 73 airstrikes on positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, dropping 120 guided bombs. In addition, they conducted 5611 shellings, including 91 from multiple rocket launch systems, and deployed 3496 kamikaze drones for strikes.

🔥Over the past day, the aviation, missile forces, and artillery of the Defense Forces struck 18 areas of personnel concentration, weapons, and military equipment, three artillery systems, and one other important object of the Russian invaders.

🟠In the North-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, Ukrainian defenders repelled 15 Russian attacks. The enemy carried out 10 airstrikes, dropping a total of 22 guided aerial bombs and conducted 340 shellings, including six from multiple rocket launch systems.

🔵Yesterday, in the South-Slobozhansky direction, there were eight combat clashes in the areas of the settlements Milove, Stroivka, Vovchansk, and Zelene.

🔵In the Kupiansk direction, there were seven attacks by the occupiers. Defense forces repelled enemy assault actions near Holubivka, Synkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, and Kolisnykivka.

🔵In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 28 times, trying to advance in the areas of the settlements Hrekivka, Kopanky, Ridkodub, Karpivka, Kolodiazi, Zelena Dolyna, Torske, and towards Bilohorivka.

🔵In the Siversky direction, our defenders repelled five assault actions of the occupying forces in the areas of Serebrianka and Vyimka.

🔵In the Kramatorsk direction, five combat clashes were recorded in the area of Chasovy Yar and towards Stupochky.

🔵In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks in the areas of Toretsk, Oleksandro-Kalynove, Yablunivka, Rusynyi Yar, and towards Stepanivka.

🟠In the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 74 offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the settlements Poltavka, Myroliubivka, Mykolaivka, Razine, Rodynske, Novotoretske, Promin, Vidrodzhennia, Shevchenko, Udachne, Novosergiivka, Kotliarivka, Muravka, Zelenyi Kut, and Oleksiivka.

🔵In the Novopavlivka direction, our defenders stopped 27 attempts to break through the defensive lines of our troops in the areas of the settlements Zaporizhzhia, Novokhatske, Myrne, Shevchenko, Zelene Pole, Rivnopil, and Vilne Pole.

🔵In the Huliaipole direction, there were no combat clashes yesterday.

🔵In the Orikhiv direction, the enemy twice conducted offensive actions, trying to advance towards Mali Shcherbaky and Novodanylivka.

🔵In the Prydniprovskiy direction, the Defense Forces stopped seven attempts by the aggressor to advance."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of July 14, 2025.

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

📍 Units of the "North" troop group improved their tactical position, inflicted defeats on personnel and equipment of 2 mechanized, tank, ranger, airborne assault brigades, 2 assault regiments, and an airborne assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements Alekseevka, Ryzhevka, Kondratovka, Khrapovshchina, Varachino, and Sadki in the Sumy region.

💥 In the Kharkiv direction, damage was inflicted on units of the airborne assault brigade of the AFU and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements Okhrimovka, Khatneye, and Volchansk in the Kharkiv region.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 150 servicemen. Three armored combat vehicles, 4 cars, 3 field artillery guns, and a "Plastun" electronic reconnaissance station were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "West" troop group improved their frontline position, inflicted defeats on formations of 4 mechanized brigades of the AFU and 2 territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements Petro-Ivanovka, Petrovka, Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, Kolodezi, Zelenaya Dolina, and Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️ Losses of the AFU amounted to more than 220 servicemen, 1 armored combat vehicle, 20 cars, and 2 artillery guns. Four electronic warfare stations, an air target detection radar station, and 5 ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "South" troop group improved their tactical position. They inflicted defeats on personnel and equipment of four mechanized, airmobile, mountain assault, assault brigades of the AFU and a National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements Kleban-Byk, Plescheevka, Zakotnoye, Slavyansk, Severesk, Krivaya Luka, Svyato-Pokrovskoye, Konstantinovka, Serebryanka, and Dronovka in the DPR.

▪️ The enemy lost up to 130 servicemen, a "Kazakh" armored vehicle, 8 cars, 2 field artillery guns, 2 electronic warfare stations, and 5 ammunition depots.

🚩 Units of the "Center" troop group continued advancing into the enemy's defense depth and liberated the settlement Mayak in the DPR.

💥 Damage was inflicted on formations of 6 mechanized, 2 assault, ranger, airborne brigades, 2 drone system brigades, 2 assault regiments of the AFU, 2 marine brigades, 3 territorial defense brigades, and 4 National Guard brigades in the areas of the settlements Krasnoarmeysk, Udachnoye, Novopavlovka, Rodinskoye, Vladimirovka, Muravka, Petrovskoye, Stepanovka, Dimitrov in the DPR, Novopodgorodnoye, and Filiya in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

▪️ Losses of Ukrainian armed formations amounted to up to 360 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored combat vehicle, a "Kazakh" armored vehicle, and 4 artillery guns."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of July 14, 2025

🚩 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" group of forces, the settlement of Malinovka in the Zaporizhia region was liberated.

💥 The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the marine brigade and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Temirovka, Poltavka in the Zaporizhia region, Novopil and Tolstoy in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 185 servicemen, four combat armored vehicles, 11 cars, 2 field artillery guns and a combat vehicle of the multiple launch rocket system "Verba".

📍 Units of the Dnepr group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated formations of a mechanized, mountain assault brigade, 2 coastal defense brigades of the AFU and 2 territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoe, Plavni, Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Sadovoe, Ponyatovka and Nikolskoye in the Kherson region.

▪️ Up to 60 AFU servicemen, 6 vehicles, 7 electronic warfare stations, an Israeli-made RADA RPS-42 radar station and 2 ammunition depots were destroyed.

✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged an ammunition production facility, assembly centers, military airfield infrastructure, storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles and anti-ship missiles, ammunition and fuel depots, temporary deployment points for AFU formations and foreign mercenaries in 140 districts.

🎯 Air defense systems have shot down three guided aerial bombs and 120 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

🔹 663 aircraft,
🔹 283 helicopters,
🔹 69,490 unmanned aerial vehicles,
🔹 616 anti-aircraft missile systems,
🔹 24,212 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
🔹 1,577 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
🔹 27,356 field artillery pieces and mortars,
🔹 38,143 units of special military vehicles."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"Operational information as of 16:00 on 14.07.2025 regarding the Russian invasion

Currently, the enemy has attacked the Defense Forces' positions 88 times. The most active actions are taking place in the Lyman, Pokrovsk, and Novopavlivka directions.

Russian artillery shelling has affected the border areas of our country, including the settlements of Krasnyi Khutir, Mykhalchyna Sloboda in Chernihiv region; Lukashenkivske, Bratenytsia, Bunyakine, Hirka, Baranivka, Maryine, Prokhody in Sumy region. The Shostka area suffered an airstrike.

In the North-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, the enemy conducted 10 offensive actions today, with three clashes currently ongoing. The enemy carried out five airstrikes, dropping a total of 11 guided bombs, and conducted 170 shellings, including four from multiple rocket launch systems.

In the South-Slobozhansky direction, three clashes occurred near Vovchansk and Kamianka.

Since the beginning of the day, the enemy attacked five times in the Kupiansk direction in the areas of Kindrashivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Zahryzove, and towards Nova Krugliakivka, Petropavlivka.

In the Lyman direction, Ukrainian units repelled 10 attacks in the areas of Hrekivka, Novomykhailivka, Karpivka, Novyi Myr, Kolodiazi, Torske, and in the directions of Novosergiivka, Shandryholove. Four more attacks are still ongoing.

In the Siversky direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled six enemy attacks. Occupying units tried to advance towards Hryhorivka, Ivano-Darivka, Verkhniokamianske, and Vyimka.

Currently, in the Kramatorsk direction, four enemy assaults have taken place. The enemy attacked towards Stupochky, Predtechyne, and Bila Hora.

In the Toretsk direction, Russian occupiers conducted three assault actions on our defenders' positions in the areas of Toretsk, Rusynyi Yar, and Dyliivka. Ukrainian units have already repelled one attack; two clashes are ongoing.

In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have carried out 26 attacks on our defenders' positions in the areas of Novoekonomichne, Myrne, Rodynske, Fedorivka, Razine, Lysivka, Zvirove, Udachne, Novopavlivka, Oleksiivka, and towards Pokrovsk, Rodynske, Novopavlivka, Myrnohrad.

Resisting the enemy pressure, Ukrainian defenders have already repelled 24 attacks by enemy units; two clashes are still ongoing.

In the Novopavlivka direction, the invaders launched 12 attacks on Ukrainian troops' positions near Novokhatske, Zaporizhzhia, Komar, Myrne, Puddubne, Voskresenka, Vilne Pole, Shevchenko, Zelene Pole, and Temyrivka. Our soldiers have already repelled nine attacks. The fighting continues.

In the Huliaipole direction, the enemy did not conduct offensive actions but carried out an airstrike on Bilohirya.

In the Orikhiv direction, the invading units attacked Ukrainian positions once, trying to advance towards Kamianske. Novodanylivka and Plavni suffered airstrikes.

In the Prydniprovske direction, Ukrainian defenders have repelled four assault actions by the occupiers. Odradokamianka was attacked by unguided aviation rockets.

No significant changes have been noted in other directions at this time."

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🇺🇸🤝🌐 — POTUS Donald Trump hosts Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte in the Oval Office:

"It's a great honor to have a friend of mine... highly respected by everybody that knows him... and he's done a fantastic job."

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🇺🇸❌🇷🇺❗️ — US President Donald Trump issues an 50 day ultimatum for Russian leader Vladimir Putin reach a deal or face consequences:

"We are very, very unhappy with [Russia], and we're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days."

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