Night air attack, 149 military clashes, battles in the Toretsky and Pokrovsky directions, losses of the occupiers, enemy shelling, abnormal heat, a fire at an oil depot in Russia.
On the night of July 13, Russia attacked the territory of Ukraine p' “Four enemy UAVs were shot down by units of mobile fire groups in the Donetsk and Kharkov regions,” the Ukrainian Air Force report says.
The fifth “Shahed” left the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of the Gomel region (Belarus).
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 149 military clashes took place over the past 24 hours.
< p class="MsoNormal">According to updated information, yesterday the enemy carried out 64 airstrikes using 94 KABs on the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements. In addition, he carried out almost 5,000 attacks, including 143 from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Toretsk directionthe invaders carried out 19 attacks near Toretskaya, Severny, Zhelezny and New York.
In the Pokrovsky direction 42 assault actions were reflected in the areas of Alexandropol, Novoselovka First, Novoaleksandrovka Progress , Lozovatsky, Sokol, Yasnobrodovka, Vozdvizhenka and Karlovka. There, the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to oust Ukrainian units from their occupied lines. The greatest concentration of enemy efforts was near Novoaleksandrovka.
In the Kurakhovsky directionThe defense forces repelled 22 attacks near Krasnohorivka, Paraskoveevka and Konstantinovka, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also informs that over the past 24 hours the Defense Forces have liquidated another 1,120 Russian occupiers. Russia has already lost about 557,770 of its troops in Ukraine.
About other enemy losses – in the news.
On the night of July 13, in the Tsimlyansky district of the Rostov region of Russia, a fire broke out at an oil depot as a result of a drone attack, Russian media reported.
It is known that a fuel tank caught fire.
July 13, Saturday, in Ukraine the heat is predicted to be more than +30°C. In the southern regions, temperatures up to +41°C are expected.
“Dry hot weather, only in the evening in the far west of the country there will be intermittent rain and thunderstorms in places,” the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center said in a statement.
>During the day, intense heat is 35-39° in the Odessa, Nikolaev and Kherson regions, in some places the heat is 40-41°. At night 20-25°. In the Carpathians and in the east of the country at night 17-22°, during the day 30-34°.
On July 15, the official dollar exchange rate will exceed 41 hryvnia for the first time in history.
The National Bank of Ukraine has determined that on Monday it will be necessary to pay 41 hryvnia and 4 kopecks per unit of American currency. In the interbank market, this barrier was broken on Friday.
The euro exchange rate will also be a record-breaking minus at the beginning of the working week: it will be traded for 44 hryvnia and 68 kopecks.
According to the state budget for 2024, the dollar exchange rate forecast for the end of the year is 42 hryvnia and 10 kopecks. The American currency has already exceeded the average annual rate of 40 hryvnia and 70 kopecks.
Representatives of right-wing political forces in Switzerland intend to prevent the Eurovision Song Contest from being held in the country next year, calling the event “propaganda” and “encouraging Satanism and the occult.”
As The Guardian writes, The Federal Democratic Union, professing the principles of Christian conservatism, threatens to derail the plans of the Eurovision organizers by taking advantage of the Swiss system of direct democracy.
In Zurich, Geneva, Bern and Basel, which are hosting the competition, the right want to organize budget referendums. Citizens will be asked to prohibit the authorities from allocating funds for Eurovision.
The European Language Union already has experience of changing the host country of the song competition: after the victory of the Kalush Orchestra group, instead of Ukraine due to a full-scale war, the organizer became Great Britain, which hosted Eurovision on behalf of our state in Liverpool.
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