Death of National Guardsman, driver charged for accident at gas station, new aid to Ukraine: highlights
In Kyiv, a driver who drove into a gas station and killed a passenger was charged; contract soldier Bohdan Hovorukhin died in a National Guard military unit in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; the United States has allocated $250 million in aid to Ukrainian agriculture. Here's a roundup of the most important stories from July 18.
Death of a National Guard soldier
Contract soldier Bohdan Hovorukhin died in the National Guard military unit No. 3036 in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The deputy commander of the unit, Lieutenant Colonel Svyatoslav Bileychuk, said that Bohdan shot himself in a dugout, which was preceded by a conflict.
"Hovorukhin was always positive, but on that last duty he was overly agitated, 'wound up', he refused to serve at the checkpoint and went to rest in the dugout at an unspecified time. This caused a conflict with other soldiers," Bileychuk said.
The lieutenant colonel added that Hovorukhin was forced to come to the checkpoint, and "there was even a fight there - the guys wanted to force him to be on duty." But the contract soldier "returned to the dugout anyway, where he shot himself with a single shot from an assault rifle."
Driver charged
Kyiv law enforcement officers have pressed charges against a 21-year-old Audi driver who, according to investigators, was speeding on Brovarskyi Avenue on July 9. He lost control, drove off the roadway and collided with a gas station.
The impact caused a large-scale fire on the grounds of the gas station, and its premises and ground equipment burned down completely. The driver, a 17-year-old passenger and the gas station operator were injured in the accident. They were hospitalized with burns of varying severity. The passenger died of his injuries in hospital on July 13.
New aid
On July 18, at the Odesa port, USAID Administrator Samantha Power condemned Russia's decision to suspend participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative and announced the allocation of $250 million to support Ukraine's agriculture, which has suffered as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Besides, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands will provide Ukraine with M113 tracked armored personnel carriers.
Russian attacks
During the night of July 18, the Ukrainian Air Force destroyed 38 air targets over Ukraine - six Kalibr missiles, 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones, and one reconnaissance drone.
The Russian forces fired six missiles at Odesa, which were shot down by air defense. The fragments damaged port infrastructure facilities and injured an elderly man. In addition, 21 Shahed suicide drones were shot down over Odesa Oblast, and four more over Mykolaiv Oblast.
On July 18, Russian troops shelled Dvorichna in the Kupyansk district of Kharkiv Oblast. As a result, a 72-year-old man was killed and a 65-year-old woman sustained shrapnel wounds to her neck and chest.
Other news
- The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed Russia's lawsuit against Ukraine, where it set out all the myths of Russian propaganda - Ministry of Justice.
- The European Parliament called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Alexander Lukashenko for abducting Ukrainian children.
- The suspect in the triple murder in Kharkiv explained to the court that he was "ordered by Lucifer".
- The United States plans to allocate a new $1.3 billion military aid package to Ukraine - media reports.
- On the Kupyansk axis, the initiative is already on the side of Ukrainian defenders, according to Deputy Defense Ministry Hanna Maliar.
- Share: