Ukraine War Update NEWS (20230721b): Pt 2 - Bumper Geopolitical News
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"Literally every excuse by Russia is nonsense. They have imposed limits on themselves. US-EU sanctions specifically exempt Russian agricultural products and the UN specifically laid out no restrictions will be placed on ships, insurance, banking and agricultural products."
Hello Team!
Jonathan introduces part 2 of the Ukraine War News Update for July 21, 2023, which will cover frontline updates and geopolitical news. Part 1 covered strikes, hits, losses and was restricted by YouTube.
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Frontline Updates
- Not a lot of information comes from the frontline due to operational security
- Ukrainian soldiers are making advances in the Melitopol direction, entrenching at reached boundaries
- Russia is focusing efforts on the Kupyansk-Lyman-Bakhmut-Avdiivka-Marinka axes
- Russians have changed offensive direction near Lyman, turning south
- Russians tried to advance at Novoselivka and Kryvya Luka along the Svatove axis but did not succeed
- North and south of Dibrova in the Serebryansky forest, Russians are expanding the grey zone but lack infrastructure for a breakthrough
- In the Bakhmut area, successes at Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Russians set up new defensive line east towards Klishchiivka
- Russians advanced at Vesele north of Avdiivka
- Ukraine's forces seen entering outskirts of Klishchiivka, 1.8 sq km added to liberated status
- South of Klishchiivka, assault units pushing and clearing parts of tree line to Andriivka
- Ukrainian artillery destroyed large Russian assault group west of Andriivka
- Russians took control around Vesele hamlet near Avdiivka
Military Aid to Ukraine
- Germany delivered Leopard 1A5 tanks, artillery rounds, trucks, machine guns and pledged reconnaissance drones
- UK providing Ukraine 200,000 artillery shells, 15 times more than initially planned but would only last Russia 4 days at peak shelling
- Italy delivering 155mm self-propelled guns to Ukraine after some delays and issues with upgrades
- Canada will help prepare infrastructure for F-16 fighter jets even though it doesn't have any itself
- In next 30 days, 40 FV103 Spartan APCs in various modifications will be delivered to Ukraine from UK via private arms dealers
- Ukraine will receive $1.5B loan from World Bank under guarantee of Japanese government
- Map showing possible air defense coverage of advanced systems Ukraine is expected to receive - 17 NASAMS, 8 IRIS-T, 5 Hawks, 2 Patriots, 1 SAMP/T
Geopolitics - Grain Deal
- Zelensky had first telephone call with Ethiopian PM about impact of Russia withdrawing from grain deal and invited him to visit Ukraine
- China's consulate in Odesa damaged by Russian strikes, China monitoring developments and in touch with parties
- Analysis shows Russia's excuses for leaving grain deal are nonsense - they imposed export limits on themselves, sanctions exempt agricultural products, no UN restrictions on ships/insurance
- Ukraine underwriting insurance for ships so grain exports can continue, but Russia won't be able to get insurance if Ukraine threatens their ships in retaliation
- Cargo insurance policies suspended after Russia quit grain deal, Ukraine wants ships to come but none will without insurance and Russian security guarantees
Sanctions and Diplomatic Tensions
- Mysterious "ghost fleet" helping Russia ship oil around sanctions, transferring between vessels at sea
- Switzerland ranks first among European countries for producing components found in Russian weapons, Swiss banks store at least $200B in Russian cash
- Canada introducing sanctions against Russian military-industrial complex and cultural/educational sectors
- London flat worth £1.5M owned by son and wife of Russian Lancet drone designer Alexander Zakharov, son works at UN Institute for Disarmament Studies
- US Senate rejected attempt to limit military aid to Ukraine, but concerning that 1/4 of Republican senators voted for restrictions
- Hungary blocking EU's €20B military support plan for Ukraine until Hungarian bank removed from list of war sponsors
- Head of Belarus Red Cross admitted organization involved in deporting children from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine
Wrap up
Jonathan thanks viewers for watching and reminds them to like, subscribe and share the video.
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