Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said shelling attacks were reported in several villages near the Ukrainian border.Wagner played a key role in Russia’s capture of Bakhmut in May. The Wagner mercenary group is no longer involved in military operations in Ukraine in any significant way, the Pentagon said, more than two weeks after the group staged a short-lived armed mutiny in Russia.Russia has occupied the site since the early weeks of its invasion. Russia’s nuclear chief said only “a complete idiot” would be reckless enough to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant amid Ukrainian claims that Moscow was planning an attack.He insisted the weapons would change nothing on the battlefield and would only further escalate the conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western supplies of new weapons to Ukraine would be a “priority target” for Russian forces fighting in the country.Moscow’s military leadership dismissed Major General Ivan Popov, commander-in-chief of Russia’s 58th Combined Arms Army fighting in southern Ukraine after he criticised battlefield strategy and expressed concern about his troops fighting without rest.Russian shelling killed three people – an 85-year-old woman in the southern region of Kherson, a man in his 40s in the southern Zaporizhia region, and a 60-year-old resident of a village in the northern region of Sumy.The Ukrainian military said it also intercepted two Russian cruise missiles. The wreckage fell on four districts of Kyiv, injuring two people and destroying several homes. Ukrainian officials said air defences shot down 20 Iranian-made Russian drones.Here is the situation on Friday, July 14, 2023.
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