Russian troops are preparing to face a counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces in the Kherson region. Ukrainian forces fired on the Antonov Bridge in Kherson. The destruction of the crossing is a serious obstacle for the Russians. Even though the south of Ukraine is still under fire, Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea resumed operations, in line with the agreement on unblocking Ukrainian grain exports, concluded on July 22 in Istanbul.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian rockets have hit a hotel in Bakhmut and a residential area in Avdiyivka in the Donbas.
“The occupiers struck Odessa again. Missiles hit ordinary residential buildings. The Russian army uses heavy weapons to destroy homes. Houses where people who wanted to go on vacation lived. The occupier constantly terrorizes Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and towns and villages in the Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Donbas regions. These actions will not go unpunished, and we will surely retaliate regardless of the lies the Russian Ministry of Defense might tell,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.