Night air attack, 147 combat encounters, battles in the Kurakhovsky and Pokrovsky directions, losses of occupiers, strikes on energy facilities in the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions, explosions in Crimea.
< img title="The main news of the night and morning of Friday, July 26: 147 combat encounters, details on the murder of Irina Farion, fire at the Saki airfield" src="https://baltimorechronicle.com/wp-content/upload 2024/07/f4f8b199135c403c0c40709dcc49ee97.jpg" alt="The main news of the night and morning of Friday, July 26: 147 combat encounters, details on the murder of Irina Farion>” shelling of Donbass < On the night of July 26, Russia struck with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and Shahed-type attack UAVs.
The enemy launched the missile from Russia's Rostov region at Donetsk region, and the drones flew from Cape Chauda in Crimea and from Russia's Kursk, Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk reported.
The Air Force's radio-technical troops detected and accompanied 22 “shaheds.” 20 of them were shot down by air defense in the Kherson, Sumy, Zhitomir and Chernihiv regions.
The air attack was repelled by mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, anti-aircraft missile forces and REB units of the Air Force.
At night, Russian “shaheds” attacked energy facilities in the Zhitomir and Chernigov regions. This was reported in Ukrenergo and in the Zhytomyr Regional Administration.
Due to enemy attacks, household and industrial consumers were cut off in certain areas of the Zhytomyr region.
By morning, most consumers were healed, repair work is ongoing.
On the night of July 26, due to an attack by occupiers in Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, people were injured. The head of the Chernihiv OVA Vyacheslav Chaus reported on Telegram about one victim, later the operational command “North” reported that there were three. – Chaus wrote, noting that there was a hit on an infrastructure facility and a residential dormitory, a civilian was injured.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 147 combat clashes were recorded in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. Russia launched one missile strike and 90 airstrikes (151 KAB), carried out more than 4,900 attacks, including 104 from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Kharkiv direction, the defenders repelled nine enemy assaults near Glubokoye, Vovchanskaya and Tykhoye, General Staff spokesman Dmitry Gutsulyak said on the air of the telethon.
On PokrovskoyeThe defenders repelled 43 assault actions by the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Ivanovka, Timofeyevka, Vesyoloye, Novoselovka Pervaya, Novoaleksandrovka, Novozhelanie, Yasnobrodovka, Progress and Kalinovo. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was near Novoselovka Pervaya and Vozdvizhenka.
In the Kurakhovsky direction The Defense Forces repelled 19 attacks near Krasnogorovka, Konstantinovka and Paraskoveyevka.
< p class="MsoNormal">More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 950 occupiers. Since the beginning of the invasion, the enemy's losses have amounted to about 572,300 soldiers.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
The murder of linguist Irina Farion was carefully prepared, as Interior Minister Igor Klymenko reported at a briefing in Lviv. The suspect had been preparing for the crime for ten days.
Deputy Prosecutor General Voitenko reported that the detainee has already been issued a notice of suspicion for premeditated murder. Prosecutors are seeking to select a preventive measure of detention without the right to bail.
Klimenko added that law enforcement officers conducted several investigative experiments. Hundreds of law enforcement officers were involved in the investigation, “combing” hundreds of hectares of forest, houses, interviewing witnesses and viewing the cameras of the “Safe City” and private ones. Some cameras were turned off.
A ball with a sports cartridge case was found at the crime scene. These cartridges were imported in 2017-2018. This is a non-combat ball, the place of its acquisition is being established.
More details in the news.
The first air raid siren signal in more than two days sounded in Kharkiv and the region on Thursday. The danger regime, declared on July 23 at 18:31, was the longest for the region during the entire full-scale invasion.
As the alerts.in.ua project writes, citizens had to take shelter due to the threat of enemy attacks for 2 days, 2 hours and 31 minutes. Never before has an air raid siren lasted so long without interruption.
Already 11 minutes after the all-clear, the siren sounded again – for 3 hours and 16 minutes. As of 5:20 on July 26, the city and region were again dangerous, the “red zone” was not in place at night for only 24 minutes.
Explosions were heard in occupied Crimea at night. Missiles hit a number of Russian military facilities.
Local residents report a fire at the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka. Ammunition is detonating there. Monitoring channels claim that the invaders did not raise Su-24 aircraft into the air, so there is a possibility that they were destroyed. In Sevastopol, the occupation authorities announced an attack by drones.
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