Russian Forces Erect Flag Over Urozhaynoye Amid Intense Zaporozhye Battles

"Russian troops had secured positions in the southern and central parts of Urozhaynoye, while intense, bloody battles were ongoing in Zaporozhye.

Russian forces have erected the Russian flag over the administration building in the village of Urozhaynoye, on the Vremevka sector of the Zaporozhye front line." Sputnik

Slovakian Prime Minister Who Survived Shooting Accuses Trump’s Enemies of Inciting Assassination

"Robert Fico, the Slovak Prime Minister who was seriously injured in an attempted assassination shooting in May, has said the Trump attack was a “carbon copy” scenario and blamed hostile media and Trump’s political opponents for creating an atmosphere of hate." Breitbart

Dutch Populist Leader Wilders: What Happened to Trump Can Happen Here, Don’t Underestimate ‘Hatred Toward Right-Wing Politicians

"Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders — a longtime target for political violence — has warned that the attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump could be mimicked in Europe, warning the public not to underestimate the “hatred towards right-wing politicians”." Breitbart

Russian attack from north continues to worsen, says Ukraine’s spymaster Budanov

"The Russian attack from the north continues, and the problems tend to worsen, the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR), Kyrylo Budanov, said in an interview with NV. Stressing that the Russian attack from the north continues, Budanov declined to tell NV whether it will expand to the Sumy or Chernihiv sectors.
"If I start answering this question, we will provoke panic," the spy chief said.
“Let's just say there are problems, and they tend to get worse. There is no catastrophe, but it is impossible not to see the problems. I already told someone from the Western press: I will not have a lot of good news this year, unfortunately.” UB

Russian Shelling

"Russian fire killed five civilians in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, with one missile attack carried out after emergency services had arrived at the scene of an earlier attack, officials said. A police officer and an emergency rescue official were killed in that second strike in the village of

Budy. 

Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said it was not the first time that Russia attacked emergency services while they were “rescuing civilians”.
Regional Governor Oleg Synegubov said 22 people were injured in the twin attacks, including five railway workers. He accused Russia of “deliberately” targeting the area twice.
In the southern Kherson region, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said three people were killed in Russian shelling. The victims were two women, aged 72 and 50, and a 41-year-old man, he said. Prokudin said Russian forces shelled Ukrainian-held positions throughout the day.
Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said an attack by multiple rocket launchers hit a multistorey apartment building, killing one person in Chasiv Yar – a town targeted by Russian forces as a staging point in advancing through Ukraine’s east.
A guided bomb, increasingly used in Russian attacks, also killed one person near the town of Kurakhove, where some of the heaviest fighting is taking place along the 1,000km (600-mile) front.
Two bombs dropped on a village further west near the town of Komar killed two people. Ten buildings and a shop were damaged, according to reports." AJ

Extreme heat triggers energy infrastructure fires in western Ukraine

"Fires and emergency breakdowns at energy infrastructure facilities in western Ukraine due to

an extreme heat wave were reported by the country’s Energy Ministry. The hot weather and increased use of air conditioning led to increased electricity consumption.
A high-voltage transmission line in one of Ukraine's western oblasts was temporarily shut down due to a fire caused by the intense heat." UV

Russian Forces Destroy Ukrainian Explosives Plant and Radar Station

"Tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artilleries of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a P-18 radar station, a factory producing explosives, and UAF personnel and military equipment concentrated in 136 areas." Sputnik

Ukraine soldiers fearful of future under incoherent Biden: ‘Needs to be removed urgently’

"Ukrainian soldiers are weighing in on President Joe Biden‘s bid for a second term,

following his recent gaffe during NATO’s closing press conference on Thursday, during which he mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “Putin.”
While Zelensky brushed the gaffe off, Ukrainian soldiers told the Kyiv Independent they’re concerned about Biden’s mental fitness, and think the best thing he could do for both America and Ukraine is drop out of his race for reelection.
“I believe that [Biden] needs to be removed urgently,” offered Pavlo, a junior lieutenant at Ukraine’s 63rd Mechanized Brigade, deployed in the Donbas.
Many of the soldiers said they worried Ukraine’s top Western ally and primary source of weapons in the ongoing push back against Russia’s full-scale invasion would be unable to make governing decisions." NYP

Argentina’s Javier Milei: ‘International Left … Resort to Terrorism’ to Stop Trump

"Argentine President Javier Milei, a libertarian and vocal supporter of former President

Donald Trump, issued a statement in support of the 2024 presidential election frontrunner following an assassination attempt against him on Saturday evening, blaming the “international left” for the violence.
“All my support and solidarity to the president and candidate Donald Trump, victim of a COWARDLY assassination attempt that put at risk his life and those of hundreds of people,” Milei wrote in an extended message on Twitter." Breitbart

Russian Plot to Assassinate Head of German Defense Industry Giant Foiled: Reports

"United States intelligence was able to alert the German government to a Russian plot to

assassinate the chief of Rheinmetall, the defense-industrial giant that has played a major role in keeping Ukraine armed.
Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger is said to have been one of the main targets of a Russian assassination plot. His company, a major global defense industry player, has received an €8.5bn German government contract to make 155mm shells for the Ukrainian armed forces and is planning to open an artillery shell factory in Ukraine." Breitbart

160 combat clashes on front lines in past 24 hours

"As many as 160 combat engagements between Ukrainian defenders and Russian invaders were recorded on the front lines.
According to specified information, on July 13, the Russians launched two missile strikes using three missiles and 71 airstrikes using 122 guided aerial bombs against the positions of Ukrainian units and towns and villages. In addition, the enemy launched more than 4,500 shelling attacks, including 140 attacks using multiple rocket launchers.
The Russian army carried out airstrikes outside Lyptsi, Vovchansk, Borshchove, Hlyboke, Mali Prokhody, Senkivka, Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, Starytsia, Kucherivka, and Podoly in the Kharkiv region, Myrnohrad, Oleksandropil, Ivanivka, Krasnohorivka, Toretsk, Odradne, Verkhniokamianske, Niu-York and Novyi Komar in the Donetsk region.

Yesterday, Ukrainian combat aircraft, missile and artillery forces carried out 12 strikes against Russian troop concentration areas and hit four enemy artillery systems, two electronic warfare and radar systems and one Pantsir-S1 air defense missile and gun system.
On the Kharkiv axis, there were 13 combat clashes near Hlyboke and Vovchansk.
On the Kupiansk axis, the number of attacks amounted to 18. Ukrainian forces repelled assaults near Synkivka, Vilshana, Petropavlivka, Novoselivka, Pishchane, Berestove and Stelmakhivka.
On the Siversk axis, Ukrainian defenders repelled 12 assaults by Russian invaders near Bilohorivka, Rozdolivka, Verkhniokamianske, Spirne, and Vyimka.
On the Kramatorsk axis, the Russians attacked Ukrainian positions 12 times outside Hryhorivka, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, and Andriivka.
On the Toretsk axis, the enemy carried out 13 attacks near Pivnichne, Niu-York and Toretsk.
On the Pokrovsk axis, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 40 assaults outside Prohres, Vozdvyzhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Kalynove, Lozuvatske, Novoselivka Persha and Yasnobrodivka, where the invaders, supported by aircraft, attempted to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions. The greatest concentration of enemy attacks was recorded near Novooleksandrivka.
On the Kurakhove axis, Ukrainian forces repelled 16 attacks near Krasnohorivka, Kostiantynivka, Karlivka and Pobieda, where the enemy tried to break through Ukrainian defenses.
On the Vremivka axis, Russian troops carried out 18 assaults near Urozhaine, Vodiane, Makarivka, Velyka Novosilka, and Kostiantynivka.
On the Dnipro River axis in the Kherson region, Russian troops attempted to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions on bridgeheads. Two Russian attacks were unsuccessful near Mala Tokmachka and Kozatski Laheri." Ukrin

Ukrainian Men Desperate to Escape War Are Drowning as They Flee

"It was seven weeks after Pvt. Ivan Pidmalivskiy had been due back on the front line with

Russia when rescuers pulled his lifeless body from a river on Ukraine’s western edge.
His death added to a toll of more than two dozen other men who have drowned in the River Tysa since Russia invaded, many of them fugitives from a military draft aimed at sustaining Ukraine’s war effort. Pidmalivskiy was different: He had fought for two years after returning to Ukraine from abroad to defend his country. His family had seen the war take a growing toll on the burly 32-year-old, but he never revealed the depths of his exhaustion to them. “What was happening inside his soul, I don’t know,” said his mother, Liubov Pidmalivska. Many of the men who initially mobilized to repel Russia’s invasion are dead, missing or wounded—and the rest are worn out from more than two years of brutal combat." WSJ

Israel targets top Hamas commander, mastermind in Oct. 7 attacks during air strike in Gaza

"A major Israeli airstrike in Gaza Saturday targeted the Hamas commander considered the

mastermind of the horrific Oct. 7 attacks that left 1,200 Israelis dead and triggered the war. Israel Defense Forces shot rockets at a fenced-off compound where Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas’s military wing, and Rafa’a Salameh, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, were holed up, according to multiple reports.
The military was still waiting for intelligence to confirm whether Dief, leader of the group’s notorious Qassam Brigades, and Salameh were killed in the strike. The Saudi news channel al-Hadath reported that Dief was seriously injured and Salameh was killed, according to the Times of Israel, but their fates were not yet officially determined." NYP

Colombian special forces join Ukrainian fight with advanced weaponry

"Ukraine eagerly utilizes experienced foreigners who fight in the International Legion. Below,

you can see a unit of former special forces soldiers who came to Ukraine from Colombia, sending their greetings. They belong to the 49th Independent Assault Battalion "Carpathian Sich" and are fighting somewhere in the region of Kreminna in the Luhansk Oblast. It is also evident that they possess significant anti-tank strength capable of eliminating a large armored assault by the Russians, as there are likely boxes of additional anti-tank launchers out of frame." MS

"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

"Trump has responded, saying on Truth Social "

I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper
part of my right ear." Secret Service says one spectator was killed and two were critically injured.
Former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
Trump was seen standing back up with blood on his face, and was led off stage by the Secret Service, who could be heard shouting "get down" during the incident.
Trump could be seen grabbing his ear and falling to the ground, before standing up and walking off stage.

The Shooter

Approximately nine shots rang out.
A member of the crowd, as well as the shooter, are dead following the assassination attempt.
One Trump supporter says he alerted Secret Service before the shooting and was ignored.
Nine shots were heard, including three before Trump grabbed his ear.
Some reported seeing the military chase someone on the left hand side of the bleachers. The Times is also reporting that secret service is kicking out the press and has declared the venue a crime scene.Trump's team reportedly asked for 'beefed up protection' and was rebuffed over and over by Biden DHS." ZH