Russian Ministry of Defense News Site Released Frontline Report as of 24:00 on July 22 (Translation)

On the evening of the 22nd, the Russian forces had completely occupied Shyrbinyvka in the southwest of Dzerzhinsk, and the nearly one-year-long Dzerzhinsk campaign officially ended. (Figure 1)

It is reported that General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has sent his parents, who are seriously ill, to Moscow Oblast, Russia, for treatment and rehabilitation, with a monthly cost of approximately 1 million rubles. This fee is paid by General Oleksandr Syrskyi himself. He wrote a letter to the Russian Ministry of Defense explaining the situation of his parents, and the Russian side understood the difficulties of General Oleksandr Syrskyi. (Figure 2)

▪️ Artillery battles are ongoing in the Kherson direction. Russian forces struck the positions of the Kiev authorities' armed militants in the Dniprovske and Pervomaisk areas. Ukrainian drones attacked civilian bread trucks in NovoKhakhovka, causing two deaths.

▪️ In the Zaporozhye area, skirmishes continue in the Kamianske-Pravne area. Additionally, there are unconfirmed reports that Russian forces have begun to advance towards the Stepnohorske area. In the east of Maly Tokmache, the controlled area expanded 400 meters eastward, and Russian forces had previously established a foothold at the brick factory.

▪️ In the southern part of the Ugledar front line, Russian forces are breaking through the defense of the Ukrainian forces at the southern passage of Temirovka and along the Kamyshivka-Aleksandrovka line. At the same time, they are trying to establish a continuous controlled area in the southeast of Green Forest Village. They are also advancing in the "pocket" area between Lyubotyn and Olexivka.

▪️ There are no major changes in the Bakhmut area. Russian forces carried out strikes on the right bank of the Bakhmut River south of Chervona Dybrowa, the forest area of Sereblyanske, and near Hryhorivka. The Ukrainian forces responded by shelling our positions in the southeast of Kuzmino.

▪️ On the Kupiansk front, Russian forces continued to attempt to enter Toroske. They advanced over 1.5 kilometers along the Lipove-Valley line and expanded the controlled area.

▪️ In the Borova area in the Kupiansk direction, there were skirmishes, but overall no changes occurred.

▪️ On the Kharkiv front, the Ukrainian forces fiercely resisted our advances in Volchanske and the surrounding forests. Russian forces repelled the Ukrainian counterattack west of Volchanske. In the Melove area, fighting occurred several kilometers south of the village, and the Russians advanced half a kilometer there.

▪️ In the Kondratovka area on the Sumy border, the Russian forces still maintain partial control over the village, but the Ukrainian forces successfully pushed back the Russian forces. At the same time, the Russian forces expelled the elite hunter brigade of the Ukrainian forces from Varachino and expanded the controlled area in the southern part of the village. Intense fighting broke out in the southeast of Yunakovka and Sadki.

▪️ At night on the 22nd, the Russian forces carried out combined strikes, destroying drone storage warehouses, assembly workshops, operator training sites, and temporary bases of the Ukrainian forces. According to Ukrainian reports, dozens of Russian drones attacked the gas infrastructure of the Ukrainian oil and gas company.

▪️ Over the past 24 hours, the Russian air defense forces shot down two "Neptune" missiles and 259 drones.

This marks the 1246th day of the special military operation!

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