The US military has announced that US and Canadian fighter jets detected two Russian and two Chinese bombers in Alaskan airspace and followed them until they turned away. The statement said the Russian and Chinese bombers did not violate US or Canadian airspace.
Spain will transfer a battery of Hawk air defence systems to Ukraine in September, according to the country’s defence ministry. The German company Rheinmetall announced that it had received the first order from Ukraine to build an ammunition production plant.
Denmark and the Netherlands are ready to supply Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 tanks by the end of the summer, according to Reuters. Slovakia is continuing to arm Ukraine despite the government’s pro-Russian stance, says Bloomberg. According to the news agency, while Prime Minister Robert Fico previously refused to supply Kiev, the country’s new government wants to actively develop the defence sector in the hope that it will become one of the engines of the economy.
In particular, the production of ammunition is expected to increase tenfold by 2021, to 200,000 next year. Slovak Defence Minister Robert Kalinak has said that the government opposes free military aid to Ukraine, but will not restrict supplies paid for by Kiev or third parties, as this would ‘undermine Slovakia’s interests’. So far, almost all of Slovakia’s bomb production for the next three years has been sold to Ukraine, either directly or through third countries.
The President of the Czech Republic is working on the negotiating front: he has called for the participation of Russia and China in the peace negotiations on Ukraine, source ČTK. The participation of China, as one of the main global players capable of influencing Moscow, is particularly important,” Pavel said. According to Pavel, if China rejects the negotiations, Russia “will not feel the internal need to act” and “will try to gain advantages for itself”. Pavel also expects ‘a definitive change’ in the war in Ukraine in late 2024 or early 2025 due to elections around the world, including in the US, and ‘war fatigue affecting both sides in the war’.
And now a look at the updated front line at 15:30 on 25 July. For the second night in a row, the Russian armed forces used numerous Geranium drones to attack the Ukrainian rear. Explosions were heard in Izmail, in the Odessa region, while the Ukrainian infowar is once again trying to create a wave of information about the alleged entry of UAVs into the territory of Romania. Bucharest has already clarified that it was UAV debris that fell on its territory. Explosions have also been reported in Vylkove and Chilia, the Odessa region, Chernihiv, Kiev and Žytomyr. Rocket attacks and the use of FABs with UMPCs were recorded in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.
Seventeen aircraft-type UAVs were shot down over the Kursk region. It was reported that substations near Kursk had been damaged and that some areas had lost power. Many of these Ukrainian drones were shot down in the skies over the Belgorod region.
In the direction of Kharkiv, Russian forces regained full control of the village. Hlyboke. Ukrainian forces have been trying to attack Russian positions for 24 hours without success. In Vovčans’k, clashes are taking place near multi-storey buildings.
In the direction of Svatove-Kupjans’k, the Russian forces extended the area of control near the settlements of Nevs’ke and Makiïvka, in other areas there are clashes, but without significant progress.
North of the positions occupied in the Kanal micro-district of Chasiv Yar, Russian forces are operating west of Kalinina, extending the zone of control.
In the Torec’k agglomeration, Russian troops are advancing in the area of Nuw-York, Zalizne, Druzhba and Dachne.
In the direction of Pokrovs’k, the Ukrainians admit that the situation remains difficult for Ukrainian troops. In Novoselivka Persha, in the south-western part of the village, the Russian flag is hoisted, but people on the ground say that the village has not yet been completely taken over by Russian troops, although the situation is moving rapidly in that direction.
In Krasnohorivka, towards Donetsk, some units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces remain in the northern part of the village. Significant Ukrainian forces are said to be withdrawing from Krasnohorivka in the hope of reuniting with the main Ukrainian forces in the north-west. There are still reports of a consolidation in Kostjantynivka, but such information has appeared on the net on more than one occasion, despite the fact that manoeuvres were taking place.
On the Zaporizhzhie front in the Robotyne-Verbove sector, positional fighting continued. The line of contact remained unchanged. According to Ukrainian sources, in the direction of Orichiv, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian positions at the junction of the N-08 motorway.
In the direction of Cherson, the Russian forces continue to take countermeasures on the islands in the Dnepr floodplain. Dnepr. There are reciprocal attacks with drones and artillery.
In the Belgorod region, the village of Yasnye Zori, Belgorod district, was hit by Ukrainian artillery fire. In the Kursk region, in the village of Yubileiny, Kursk district, a private house caught fire from falling debris. In the Donetsk DPR, one person was injured by Ukrainian artillery fire.
Graziella Giangiulio
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