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Eight hundred seventy -eighth day. Chronicle "Medusa"

“Medusa” since February 24, 2022 is following the Russian invasion of Ukraine live. Read the Chronicle of events on July 19 here .

July 20, 2024 06:15 PM

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July 20, 2024 06:51:28 PM

The main news by morning

Irina Farion died after an assassination

In the 60-year-old Farion, an unknown man shot on July 19 on July 19-this happened in Lviv near the house where the politician lived. She was hospitalized with a gunshot wound of her head in extremely serious condition, but after about four hours, Farion died .

The police are looking for a suspect, criminal proceedings have begun under an article on intentional murder. The motives of the criminal are still unclear. Two main versions are personal hostility and socio-political activity of the murdered.

Farion advocated a complete ban on the Russian language in Ukraine, because of her sharp statements, she repeatedly fell into scandals. In November 2023, she stated that she did not consider Ukrainians to be Ukrainians, who speak Russian, for which she was stiffly criticized, including from the military themselves. Then Farion published the personal data of a student from the Crimea, who supported her position, after which he was detained by Russian police. The SBU opened a criminal case against Farion.

What else:

• Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump talked on the phone. Zelensky said that he congratulated Trump on an official nomination as a candidate for the president of the United States. According to Zelensky, he agreed with Trump to discuss during a personal meeting what measures should be taken to achieve a long world. When a meeting may take place, it is unknown.
• The Ukrainian military fired at Shebekino, said the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov. Three people were injured.
• During the night, the Russian army attacked Ukraine seventeen drones, three ballistic and one winged rocket, the Air Force Air Force says. According to the military, 13 drones managed to knock down. The attack was conducted on the Kharkov, Poltava, Sumy and Kyiv regions. In the Kharkov region, the blow fell on the railway, four people were injured .
• The Armed Forces of the Armed Forces held a massive attack with drones on the Rostov region, said Governor Vasily Golubev. According to him, 26 drones were destroyed, as a result, no one was injured. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also stated that one drone was shot down over the Smolensk region.

July 20, 2024 12:52:27 PM

What's new by the middle of the day

• German Chancellor Olaf Sholts said that Russia should be at the next summit of the world. “There are already many discussions on this score, for the last time in Switzerland. And I am very glad that the Ukrainian president also wants Russia to be present at the next meeting, ”said Sholts.
• When shelling Shebekino, seven people were injured. According to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, four of them received fragmentation injuries as a result of direct hit the territory of an industrial enterprise.
• As a result of shelling in the Izyumsky district of the Kharkov region, two people were killed , three more were injured. More than 50 residential buildings were also damaged, the head of the region Oleg Sinegubov said.

July 20, 2024 17:07:21

The main thing in the evening

• Russian troops fired at the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to the regional administration, a 44-year-old man died in Nikopol during the shelling. A woman of 60 years old was wounded in the vicinity of the city.
• The neighbors of Irina Farion told reporters that the alleged killer was sitting at the victim’s house for about two weeks. He answered the questions of local residents that "he came from Ternopol."
• At night, Kiev could attack the new Russian drone - presumably this model flies below the Iranian “Shakheda”. There is no official confirmation of this information, but in the morning the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that in addition to the 16 “mined”, one unknown type drone was shot down.
• The Ukrainian Osint project Deep State said that the Russian troops seized the center of the village of Peschanno in the Kupyansk direction. The network spread on the network and videos of the Russian military, which hang the flag at the monument to the Red Army in the sandy. The project confirmed their authenticity.
• In Lviv, the police detained two people who set fire to the military cars. According to the deputy chief of the Department of Patrol Police of Ukraine Alexei Beloshitsky, they found phones for communication with the Russian “curator”.

July 20, 2024 17:09:12

On this we end today's broadcast. We will continue on the air to follow the war in Ukraine and the events associated with it in Russia and in the world tomorrow morning. Thank you for reading us.