WAR IN UKRAINE: July 31, 2023
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 523
A morning Russian rocket attack on Kryvyi Rih in E. Ukraine has killed 2 people and injured another 20, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. About five to seven people are believed to be under the rubble, they are trying to be rescued.
One man killed, two injured after Russia's attack with Grad rockets on central Kherson The attack took place ~8:20, city municipal workers are the victims. The Grad MLRS launches unguided rockets and have been used extensively by pro-Russian combatants in the occupied Donbas
Ukrainian forces have been engaged in heavy fighting along the entire front line, repelling Russian assaults in the northeast and making incremental advances, officials said, as Kyiv and Washington are preparing to start talks on security guarantees for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that it was "inevitable" that "war" would come to Russia after authorities there were forced to temporarily close a busy Moscow airport following an overnight drone attack on the capital - RFE/RL
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a voice message published on Monday that his Wagner group was not currently recruiting fighters but was likely to do so in future. The future of Wagner and Prigozhin has been unclear since he led a short mutiny against the Russian defense establishment in late June and the Kremlin said he and some of his fighters - who have fought in some of the fiercest battles of the Ukraine war - would leave for Belarus. Despite that, Prigozhin attended a meeting with Putin five days after the mutiny and was photographed last week in St Petersburg, where President Vladimir Putin was hosting African leaders. “Today we are defining our next tasks, whose outline is becoming clearer and clearer. Undoubtedly, these are tasks that will be carried out in the name of the greatness of Russia,” a voice sounding like Prigozhin’s said in the message. It was published on Grey Zone, a Telegram channel affiliated with Wagner - Reuters