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The family of Russian engineer Alexander Zakharov, who designed the Lancet kamikaze drone for the Russian army, owns a flat in central London worth almost US$2 million - and his son, Lavrentii Zakharov, works at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research.

Moscow says attack on Crimea using 28 drones was repelled overnight

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has noted that by intensifying operations on the Kupiansk front, the Russians are trying to draw the reserves of Ukraine's Defence Forces away from critical areas of the front, however experts believe that the invaders will not be able to make an operationally significant breakthrough.

According to Colonel Oleksandr Bakulin, it is easier for the Ukrainian defenders to resist the Russian regular troops near Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast than the Wagner mercenaries, who "were uncomfortable enemies".

KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv reported a "complicated" situation in fighting in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, and Moscow said its troops had advanced in the direction of the city of Kupiansk in the northeast. Russia and Ukraine differed in their accounts of the latest battles since Kyiv launched a counteroffensive early last month, but both sides signalled that fighting was fierce. The TASS news agency quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying its forces had advanced by up to 2 km (1.2 mile...

UK Defence Intelligence has analysed the situation on the battlefield as of Tuesday, 18 July, stating that Ukrainian and Russian troops have achieved minor advances on the front in the past week. Source: UK Defence Intelligence, as reported by European Pravda Details: According to UK intelligence, fighting continued in many areas of the front during the past week, with both sides "achieving marginal advances in different areas".

Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stressed that the Russian troops numbering over 100,000 people on the Lyman-Kupiansk front is not a new problem, and they "did not appear there yesterday".

Russia's war against Ukraine cannot last another 500 days, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said during a speech at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on July 17, news agency Ukrinform reports.

Ukraine still has "significant" reserves it has yet to commit to its slow-moving counteroffensive against Russian troops, the top US military officer said Tuesday.Ukraine has "a significant amount of combat power not yet committed," he said.

The Ukraine war "is going to be long, it’s going to be hard, it’s going to be bloody,” Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley predicted.