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🤬 Russian forces hit a high-rise building in Sumy with a jet drone.

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❗️ Yesterday, during a timeout in the World Cup final, a banner with a T-shirt with the words "Russia" and "peace, love" was unfurled on the field.

The Kremlin is now like spiders in a jar. A war of all against all has started among the Kremlin elite, accompanied by unprecedented arrests of people who were close to Putin. They used to believe they were "untouchable" and that this status was guaranteed. ⤵️

"8000 (Russian) specialists had completed training for the VBS during the first 6 months of 2026. However, based on the ministry’s approved recruitment schedule, roughly 34400 personnel should have been trained by mid-year, the CIT calculated" www.kyivpost.com/post/80685

🕯️Three people killed, 4 more injured: the enemy attacked a civilian enterprise in the Odesa region — OVA As a result of the shelling, equipment caught fire, and a gas pipeline was damaged.

"HUN announced an investigation into a large foreign investment by 🇨🇳automaker BYD negotiated by a former FM" "Péter Szijjártó’s announcement ()that he would take the job at ()carmaker prompted accusations of a conflict of interest (facilitating substantial government subsidies to Cie)" THEGUARDIAN

🇵🇱🇺🇦🙏 In Poznań, three unknown men beat a 60-year-old man to partial memory loss after he stood up for a Ukrainian boy on a tram. Police are searching for the attackers and examining surveillance camera footage, — Rzeczpospolita Poland's deputy interior minister reported a rise in hate crimes.

Cleopatra didn’t look like this. But nobody complained.

I urge you not to hate anyone. The enemy is closely monitoring our every internal dispute and is waiting for us to start fighting among ourselves. I will tell the enemies directly: you will not wait. Let's think about our joint victory. Work is underway. There will be results. 3/3

MORE: Russian forces conducted one of their largest ballistic missile strikes thus far in the war on the night of July 18-19, predominantly targeting Kyiv Oblast. Russian forces have launched more ballistic missiles against Ukraine thus far in July than Russia reportedly produces each month. 🧵(1/3)

Ukraine hides beauty in the most ordinary places: tucked away in the village of Pylypovychi, Zhytomyr Oblast, sits a bus stop that doubles as a work of art Mosaic artists covered it in flowers and mythical creatures, turning the station into something people still stop to capture 📷 Tata Filipova

2/and promised to stand with Zelenskyy 100%, just like Keir Starmer. Burnham referred to his experience working with Ukrainian mayors during his time as Mayor of Greater Manchester.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The 225th Assault Regiment of Ukraine has captured 64 Russian soldiers. They were supposed to inflitrate into the Ukrainian rear, look for drone crews, gather information and such. Instead, they will help Ukraine free some of our people who are suffering in Russian captivity.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸 New UK PM to make first calls to Zelensky and Trump   Andy Burnham announced this in his first speech from 10 Downing Street:   💬I will make it very clear to President Zelensky today that there is no change. I will be with him 100%, as will Keir Starmer.

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🇺🇦🇻🇦 Zelensky: I am grateful to the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and to Pope Leo XIV for their support for Ukraine. Russia does not want to stop these attacks. One format that could help make this possible is a meeting at the leaders’ level.

Two people killed and eight more injured by a Russian strike on Pavlohrad. A one-year-old baby was injured, as well. The attack also damaged apartment buildings and civilian vehicles. Russia is trying to make Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.

❗️Fighters of the ⚔️ 🇺🇦225th Separate Assault Regiment conducted a mopping-up operation against infiltrated enemy groups on the Zaporizhzhia direction in the areas of Ternuvate, Kosivtseve,

❗️The Russian company “Bureau 1440” has launched the second group of communication satellites into orbit for the Russian “Rassvet” project, which is claimed to be an analogue of Starlink.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

🙏🇺🇦 The streets of Zaporizhzhia are being covered with anti-drone nets: Russia is almost continuously attacking the city

🚀‼️ Since the beginning of July, the Russian army has fired 107 ballistic missiles and 20 Zircon missiles at Ukraine - this is more than the aggressor country produces every month, - ISW

10 killed as Russia strikes a grain ship off Odesa Three cruise missiles hit the Turkish-owned GOLDEN LEO as it left Odesa with corn. A Ukrainian sea pilot was among the dead; eight were rescued. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/20/t...

💔 Two people were killed and 13 others were injured, including a child, in a Russian attack in Pavlohrad

Russians are ramping up the systemic brainwashing of Ukrainian children in the occupied areas of Ukraine, with all efforts toward pushing them into military conscription.

💔 Death toll in Zaporizhzhia from Russian strike rises to 3, rescuers extract body of 11-year-old girl from rubble. Two women, ages 71 and 72, also died. 41 people injured. 🕯️Death toll from yesterday's Russian strike on a ship near Odesa rises to 10

❗️Israel refused to help Ukraine in order to ‘not upset Russia’ — former British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace

Map of all 183 Ukrainian strikes on Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. 119 vessels were hit in the Sea of Azov and 64 in the Black Sea.

🤬❗️Russian Air Force hits high-rise building in Pavlohrad

❗️FT: Six EU countries — Greece, France, Italy, Austria, Portugal, and Germany — have opposed certain provisions of the 21st package of sanctions against Russia and are demanding their revision. The reason is concern for their national companies and key economic sectors.

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Picking up where their Nazi predecessors left off, Russians continue their war on books, with last night's Russian bombing of another Ukrainian book warehouse.

NEW: Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil and energy infrastructure and naval vessels on July 18 and 19. 🧵(1/3) Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 19, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar071926

Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia yesterday. Yet another residential building destroyed. Three people killed - an 11 year old girl, and two women, 71 and 72 years old. 41 people injured. Russia targets Ukrainian civilians every day.

Beyond pathetic. Trump wouldn’t leave the podium during Spain’s World Cup trophy celebration until FIFA President Gianni Infantino pulled him away.

Today, Russia used cruise missiles to target a cargo ship flying the flag of Guinea-Bissau that was carrying a load of corn across the Black Sea, killing and injuring foreign crew members.

❗️Estimated losses of the 🇷🇺Russian Armed Forces as of July 20, 2026

❗️Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi stated the need to begin a discussion in the country regarding nuclear weapons.

‼️ Over 250,000 books from the Knygolav publishing house were destroyed in a nighttime strike on a warehouse in Kyiv. The publishing house warns of temporary delays in shipping orders.

Russian guided bomb strikes on Sumy, Ukraine, killed one man and left others injured after hitting both an industrial area and a residential neighborhood. Rescuers recovered the victim's body from the rubble of a two-story apartment building. 📹Ukraine’s State Emergency Service

‼️‼️ Navy: Russia launched a missile strike with 3 Kh-59/Kh-69 missiles on civilian vessel, which was leaving combat zone with a cargo of grain. Five people were killed, the fate of five more crew members remains unknown. Eight crew members were evacuated to a hospital in Odesa.

A woman was killed in a Russian airstrike on Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast overnight on 19 July. Two more were injured. The attack damaged a private residential building and caused a fire in an outbuilding before emergency services extinguished the blaze. 📷Ukraine’s State Emergency Service

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In an opinion piece published in The WSJ, GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she will vote against the Trump-backed SAVE America Act: “As written, the SAVE America Act…would impose costly new barriers and prevent some, perhaps many, from voting, while also creating chaos before the November elections.”

🙏🇺🇦 The number of wounded as a result of Russian airstrikes in Zaporizhzhia has risen to 14. Two more people have died, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.

Two people were killed and at least 10 injured after Russia struck Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, with guided bombs. The attack destroyed part of an apartment building, damaged nearby homes, and set a logistics terminal on fire. 📷Ukraine’s State Emergency Service