Moscow’s municipal authorities to withdraw contracts from construction firms if they fail to hit quotas for providing ‘volunteers’ to serve in Ukraine. Ukraine liberates over 14 km² over the past week – General Staff.

Source: War Mapper.
Daily overview — Summary report, July 11
The General Staff’s operational update regarding the Russian invasion as of 18.00 pm, July 11, 2023 is in the dropdown menu below:

Situation in Ukraine. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
Day 503 of the russian full-scale military aggression against Ukraine has begun.
The russian federation continues to wage its war of aggression. Despite the significant losses, russia has not abandoned its plans to fully occupy Ukrainian territory.
The enemy continues to kill civilians in Ukraine, ignore the laws and customs of war, use terror tactics, as it launches strikes and shells both military and civilian targets.
Last night, the enemy attacked the territory of Ukraine yet again, using Iranian Shahed combat UAVs. Information on the aftermath of this attack is currently being updated.
During the day of July 10, russian occupants launched a missile attack on the territory of one of the infrastructure facilities in Mykolaiv. In addition, the enemy launched 48x air strikes and 60x MLRS attacks at the positions of Ukrainian troops and various settlements. Unfortunately, the attacks caused civilian casualties on top of the destroyed infrastructure.
The likelihood of missile and air strikes across Ukraine remains high.
The adversary focuses its main efforts on Kup’yans’k, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Mar’inka axes, heavy fighting continues.
During the day of July 10, there were 30x combat engagements.
Volyn and Polissya axes: no significant changes. No signs of formation of an offensive group. Certain units of the armed forces of the republic of belarus continue their missions in the areas bordering Ukraine.

Luhansk Battle Map. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna axes: the adversary continues to maintain its military presence. During the day of July 10, the invaders launched air strikes in the vicinities of settlements of Basove, Odnorobivka, and Veterynarne (Kharkiv oblast). The adversary fired mortars and artillery at about 10x settlements, including Hirs’k (Chernihiv oblast), Chuikivka (Sumy oblast), Udy, Veterynarne, Ohirtseve, Zemlyanky (Kharkiv oblast).
Kup’yans’k axis: the Ukrainian troops are standing their ground. Krasne Pershe, Novomlyns’k, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Masyutivka, and Kyslivka (Kharkiv oblast) came under artillery and mortar fire.

Donetsk Battle Map. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
Lyman axis: the adversary launched air strikes in the vicinities of settlements of Terny, Zvanivka, Rozdolivka, and Bilohorivka (Donetsk oblast) during the day of July 10. More than 15x settlements, including Nevs’ke, Bilohorivka (Luhansk oblast), Tors’ke, Verkhn’okam’yans’ke Ivano-Dar’ivka, Berestove, Vesele, and Rozdolivka (Donetsk oblast), were shelled with artillery.

Bakhmut Battle Map. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
Bakhmut axis: under heavy fire from enemy artillery, the Ukrainian defenders successfully repelled the occupiers’ attacks in the vicinity of Hryhorivka (Donetsk oblast). The enemy launched air strikes in the vicinities of settlements of Druzhba and Toretsk. More than 10x settlements, including Vasyukivka, Bohdanivka, Khromove, Chasiv Yar, Ivanivske, Oleksandro-Shul’tyne, and Pivdenne (Donetsk oblast), suffered from enemy artillery shelling.
Avdiivka axis: the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to hold back the russian offensive in the vicinity of Sjeverne (Donetsk oblast). The enemy launched an air strike near Avdiivka. At the same time, the enemy fired artillery at more than 10x settlements, including Avdiivka, Pervomais’ke, and Nevel’s’ke (Donetsk oblast).
Mar’inka axis: under enemy artillery fire, Ukrainian defenders repelled all enemy attacks in the vicinities of settlements of Mar’inka and Krasnohorivka. The adversary launched an air strike near Krasnohorivka (Donetsk oblast). The invaders shelled more than 10x settlements, including Krasnohorivka, Mar’inka, Heorhiivka, and Pobjeda.
Shakhtars’ke axis: the adversary conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the vicinity of Novomykhailivka (Donetsk oblast). Russian forces launched an air strike in the vicinity of Odradne. The occupiers shelled more than 10x settlements, including Vuhledar, Storozheve, and Blahodatne (Donetsk oblast).

Zaporizhzhia Battle Map. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
Zaporizhzhia and Kherson axes: the adversary focuses its main efforts on preventing further advance of Ukrainian troops. The invaders fired artillery at more than 20x settlements, including Novodarivka, Levadne, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Orikhiv Zaporizhzhia oblast), Beryslav, Kozats’ke, L’vove, Antonivka, Inzhenerne, Dniprovs’ke (Kherson oblast), and the city of Kherson. At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct offensive operations on Melitopol’ and Berdyans’k axes, consolidating the positions reached.

Kherson-Mykolaiv Battle Map. July 10, 2023. Source: ISW.
During the day of July 10, Ukrainian Air Force launched 15x air strikes on the concentrations of troops, weapons and military equipment of the adversary. Also, the Ukrainian defenders intercepted 3x operational-tactical level reconnaissance UAVs of the enemy.
During the day of July 10, the Ukrainian missile and artillery troops hit 1x command post, 3x concentrations of troops, 1x ammunition depot, 7x artillery systems at their firing positions, 1x electronic warfare station, and 1x air defense system of the adversary.
Military Updates
Ukraine regains more territory from Russian forces – Ukraine’s Defence Ministry. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have liberated more than 168,6 square kilometers of territory from the Russian forces on the southern front since the beginning of the counteroffensive operations, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar announced on 10 July. Ukraine’s Armed Forces conducted successful offensive and defensive operations on both the eastern and southern fronts within the past week, according to Hanna Maliar. On the eastern front, which covers the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the Ukrainian troops improved their operational and tactical situation. At this point, the territory liberated by Ukraine’s Armed Forces on the eastern front amounts to 24 square kilometers. Russian forces launched 7,184 attacks on Ukrainian troops in this sector, using 343,402 artillery and rocket shells against the Ukrainian positions, according to Hanna Maliar.
Russian cross-border attacks force Sumy Oblast authorities to prepare evacuation from 5 km border zone. On 10 July, the authorities of Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy Oblast announced preparations to evacuate residents from the five-kilometer zone near the border with Russia, citing constant cross-border artillery attacks by Russian forces and saboteur group activities. “The [Sumy] Regional Military Administration is preparing orders to evacuate people from the five-kilometer zone away from the state border of Ukraine,” the official announcement reads.
Ukraine liberates over 14 km² over the past week – General Staff. Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have liberated over 14 square kilometers, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Staff says the troops advanced more than one kilometer in the country’s south, reclaiming more than 10 square kilometers, and liberated four km² in the east near Bakhmut City, Donetsk Oblast.
Ukrainian forces advance near Bakhmut – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry. On Sunday, 9 July, the situation on the eastern and southern fronts did not change significantly, but there was some progress on the southern flank near Bakhmut, according to Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Maliar. On the eastern front, the Russian offensive has been halted in all directions (Avdiyivka, Mariyinka and Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, and Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast), according to Hanna Maliar. Heavy fighting in these areas continues, with no change in positions, Maliar said.
According to British Defence Intelligence, (last 48 hours):

British Intelligence Map.
- Moscow’s municipal authorities are highly likely threatening to withdraw contracts from construction firms if they fail to hit quotas for providing ‘volunteers’ to serve in Ukraine. One company has reportedly been set a target of 30 volunteers by the end of August 2023.
- The move will likely primarily affect ethnic minorities from poorer regions of Russia such as Dagestan and central Asian states, who make up the majority of Moscow’s construction workers.
- This measure is highly likely at least tacitly endorsed by Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin. It continues his track record of trying to minimise the impact of the conflict on better-off Muscovites, while still being seen to support the war effort.
Losses of the Russian army

Losses of the Russian Army. Source: Euromaidan Press.
Humanitarian
Two civilians killed, three injured in Russian shelling of eastern Ukrainian towns. On 10 July, two people were killed and three injured due to the Russian shelling of the towns of Avdiyivka and Hostre in Donetsk Oblast, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported. The Russian military shelled the village of Hostre in the Pokrovsk district of the Donetsk Oblast at around 2:40 pm today. Due to the indiscriminate Russian shelling, a local resident was killed in Hostre. Three men aged 40 to 65, including a father and son, also sustained mine-blast injuries.
9-year-old musician raises USD 67,000 for Ukraine’s Armed Forces in one year. 9-year-old Yurii Napora from Lviv Oblast gives charity concerts, raising funds for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yurii and his father have been traveling around Lviv Oblast for a year. The boy sings patriotic songs while his father plays keyboards. During that time, they managed to raise more than UAH 2.5 million ($67,000). The money raised at the concerts was used to buy quadcopters, ammunition, thermal imagers, and spare parts.
Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia Oblast kills 7 and wounds 11 (update). On 9 July, Russian troops attacked a residential area of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killing four civilians and wounding 11, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, Yurii Malashko, reported. According to Ukraine’s National Police, Russians launched a guided aerial bomb at a school building where local residents received humanitarian aid.
Legal
Russia abducts Ukrainian from Berdiansk and tortures out ‘confession’ for insane ‘international terrorism trial’. Vitaliy Rastorhuiev would not voluntarily have used Putin’s euphemism for Russia’s war against Ukraine, nor could he have spontaneously adapted his ‘confession’ to fit surreal FSB charges
Support
Australia to send reconnaissance aircraft to Germany to protect supplies to Ukraine. Australia will send an E-7A Wedgetail reconnaissance aircraft from the Royal Australian Air Force to Germany to patrol the routes of humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine, according to Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese, the Guardian reported. “This is a war about the international rule of law, about whether a large nation can seek to impose its will on a smaller nation. This is about national sovereignty. This is about the people of Ukraine struggling to defend their democracy and their sovereignty,” Albanese said.
Germany’s biggest arms maker to open tank factory in Ukraine within 3 months. Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest automotive and arms manufacturer, will open a new armored vehicle factory in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, the CEO and chairman of the executive board, Armin Papperger, told CNN n an exclusive interview. The new factory will produce and repair German Fuchs armored personnel carriers for Ukraine’s Armed Forces and provide training and maintenance services, according to Armin Papperger. The factory on Ukrainian soil is part of Rheinmetall’s strategy to expand its presence in Eastern Europe and support Ukraine’s efforts to modernize its military capabilities, Papperger said.
Türkiye’s Baykar starts construction of Bayraktar drone factory in Ukraine – Minister Kamyshin. The Turkish company Baykar has begun constructing a plant to produce Bayraktar attack drones in Ukraine, according to Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukrainian Minister for Strategic Industries, who stated it on the national telethon, according to UNIAN. “The plant has started to be built in reality, not just in the memorandum. This is exactly that large Bayraktar plant, which was agreed upon several years ago, then there were stoppages and scandals. Today, the construction of this plant is starting, we have moved to real steps,” he said.
New Developments
Ukraine demands Germany to drop its opposition to NATO membership. On 10 July, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, urged the German government to stop blocking Ukraine’s rapid accession to NATO. Kuleba asked Germany to change its stance on NATO accession in an interview with ARD Tagesthemen on Monday, as quoted by the DPA news agency, according to Yevropeiska Pravda.
Most Ukrainians support Ukraine’s membership in NATO and EU – poll. Support for joining the NATO and European Union among Ukrainians is overwhelming, according to the latest poll conducted by the Rating Group, a Ukrainian independent, non-governmental research organization. Most Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad want Ukraine to join NATO and the EU and believe that Ukraine will win the war against Russia, according to the poll. According to the survey, 83% of Ukrainians in Ukraine and 86% of those living in Europe support NATO membership. Only 6% of Ukrainians in Ukraine and 4% in Europe are against joining the Alliance.
Ukraine wants all NATO leaders to confirm invitation to Alliance for Ukraine – Ukraine Deputy PM. Ukraine wants all NATO member countries to confirm an invitation for Ukraine at the Vilnius summit to join the Alliance, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna told European Pravda. The NATO summit is set for 11-12 July, and among its key topics will be Ukraine’s NATO push and the ongoing Russia-Ukrainian war.
NATO agreed to drop Membership Action Plan to shorten Ukraine’s accession path – FM Kuleba. On 10 July, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that NATO has decided to remove a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Ukraine to shorten the country’s path to NATO membership. “Following intensive talks, NATO allies have reached consensus on removing MAP from Ukraine’s path to membership. I welcome this long-awaited decision that shortens our path to NATO. It is also the best moment to offer clarity on the invitation to Ukraine to become member,” Kuleba tweeted.
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