Kharkiv

On the 879th day of the war, 172 combat engagements were recorded. The enemy launched 3 missile attacks, 66 air strikes and 715 kamikaze attacks, and fired 4,574 times at Ukrainian positions and settlements.

The Economic Court of Kharkiv Region upheld the prosecutor's claim and returned the Pokrovska Church monument to state ownership. The church was illegally registered as the property of a religious community, although it was not subject to privatization.

An explosion was heard in Kharkiv, possibly outside the city. Earlier, a missile threat was reported, the authorities urged residents to take shelter, and no official comment has been made on the explosions.

Russian troops are concentrating their forces for a new attack on Ukrainian positions, said Mykola Volokhov, commander of the Terra unit of the 3rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. The situation remains tense, the occupiers are looking for vulnerabilities in Ukraine's defense.

Ukrzaliznytsia announces the resumption of traffic after the night attack on the railroad in Kharkiv region. Trains from Kramatorsk will arrive in Kyiv at midnight, and passengers will be transported by bus.

Over the last day, 85 combat engagements took place in various sectors of the frontline. The most intense fighting continues in the Pokrovsk sector, where 32 clashes of varying intensity were registered.

The Russian army struck the village of Ivashky in Kharkiv region with an FPV drone. As a result of hitting a store, four civilians received injuries of varying degrees and were hospitalized.

As a result of a nighttime attack on the Kharkiv region's railroad by Russian proxies, 4 people were wounded and infrastructure was damaged. Some trains have resumed running, but some flights are delayed, and railroad workers are organizing passenger transfers.

Russian troops attacked the Kharkiv region at night using Iskanders. Infrastructure, residential buildings, and grain storage facilities were damaged, killing two people and injuring three.

135 combat engagements were registered in the frontline. The enemy launched 4 missile attacks, 77 air strikes and over 4,500 shelling rounds, and Ukrainian forces repelled numerous attacks in different directions.

Russia launched three missile strikes on the town of Barvinkove in Kharkiv region. According to preliminary data, two civilians were killed, three were wounded, and more than 50 residential buildings and other objects were damaged.

On the night of July 20, the Ukrainian Air Force shot down 13 enemy drones. Russia attacked 5 regions of Ukraine using ballistic and cruise missiles and drones.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan does not rule out changing restrictions on Ukraine's strikes with US weapons deep into Russia. This is due to Russia's new offensive on Kharkiv across Ukraine's border.

An explosion occurs in the suburbs of Dnipro. Air alert was announced in the eastern regions of Ukraine. The Air Force warned of a missile threat.

In Hlushkivka, a woman was killed and two people were wounded in a KAB attack. In other settlements of the region, shelling, damage to property and a forest fire were recorded.

The Ukrainian Air Force repelled a large-scale night attack by Russian troops. All 16 launched kamikaze drones and two of three guided missiles in different regions of the country were shot down.

The General Staff reports 144 combat engagements over the day. In the Kharkiv sector, 20 combat engagements took place in the vicinity of Hlyboke and Vovchansk, where the enemy actively used bombers.

On the Kyiv-Chop highway in the village of Kornyn, four vehicles collided: a truck, a minibus, and two cars, sending two people to the hospital with injuries.

The head of the Odesa Regional State Administration, Oleh Kiper, criticized a local deputy for organizing a rally against planned power outages in Chornomorsk, calling it an absurd attempt at self-promotion amid a difficult situation.

The Russians are using FPV drones to attack civilian targets, especially emergency services and police units in Kharkiv region, and have increased the number of drone strikes on Ukrainian cities.

Twenty-three Ukrainian soldiers who defended Mariupol were released from Russian captivity, thirteen of them were Azovstal defenders.

Three more underground schools have begun to be built in Kharkiv at the expense of the city budget, in addition to the first underground school opened in early May.

In the Kharkiv region, Russian troops shelled several districts over the past day, damaging houses, cafes, a car wash, and causing fires.

In the Kharkiv region, a 43-year-old man mistakenly set fire to someone else's car instead of the intended target - his brother-in-law's car - because of hostile relations between them.

There were 86 combat engagements in various parts of the frontline, with the enemy being most active in the Pokrovske and Kurakhove sectors, using missile strikes, aircraft and drones, while Ukrainian troops repelled numerous attacks.

Over the past day, russians carried out 42 air strikes on localities in Kharkiv region.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported a possible air defense operation against an enemy reconnaissance drone in Kharkiv region, and earlier, cruise missiles flying through Sumy region toward Chernihiv region and one moving further toward Kyiv region.

Due to equipment failure at one of the energy facilities in several regions of Ukraine, an emergency power outage was caused, and power engineers are working to restore the equipment.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a married couple who worked for the FSB and prepared coordinates for a new Russian missile strike on the defense forces in Kharkiv and Sumy regions: the woman collected intelligence from colleagues, and her husband determined the locations of Ukrainian defenders in the border areas.

Emergency power outages were introduced in several regions, including Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro, Donetsk and Poltava, due to growing power shortages and abnormal heat, on the orders of the national energy company Ukrenergo.