Russian units are ordered to prioritize long -range missiles and Ukrainian guiding artillery, while Kiev said Moscow was about to open a new attack.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on July 18 visited the East Army, one of the three attacks in the campaign in Ukraine, in order to check the combat work in the eastern part of the country.

The Commander of the Eastern Army Rustam Muradov reported the progress of performing the combat mission in the assigned area.

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This is also the first time Russia has announced the commander of the East Army.

Vitaly Kiselev, the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), claimed to have a separatist who controlled Seversk, the town with an area of nearly 12 square kilometers on the axis of the Russian force to the west.

Eduard Basurin, Deputy Commander of the Donetsk People's Army (DPR) claimed that the separatist force would knock the Ukrainian army from Donetsk province in the next few months.

Russia claimed that the accurate rocket was launched from the aircraft aimed at the Konstantinovka area in Donetsk province, hit the base of a foreign mercenary of Ukraine's international army.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also announced the destruction of 14 Ukrainian headquarters in one day in the southern province of Mykolaiv, Central Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk, along with a mid-range Buk-M1 air defense team, three artillery shells and artillery stalls.

The Russian -controlled southern government of Kherson said that the Ukrainian army's ambush near the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant damaged a gas pipe.

The Ukrainian army has not commented on information.

Ukrainian officials have previously said the Russian forces were re -gathering units to prepare for the attack on Slovyansk.

The British Ministry of Defense said that Russia is also consolidating the defensive position across the control areas in southern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian battlefield situation after more than 4 months of fighting.

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) recorded 5,024 civilians and 6,520 injured people since the conflict broke out on February 24.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported nearly 9.2 million people who left Ukraine and nearly 3.7 million people from abroad to Ukraine for nearly 5 months of conflict.

Ukraine said Russian missiles hit industrial facilities today in the southern city of Mykolayiv while Moscow continued to promote attack in the East.

Kiev said that Moscow raid missiles and artillery cities and towns in the east, northern and southern Ukraine.