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Some Ukrainian progress south of Bakhmut, retaking the heights overlooking Klishchiivka:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-announce-13-bln-military-aid-ukraine-sources-2023-07-18/

Comments from General Milley at today's Ramstein press conference on how well Ukraine's counter-offensive is going: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3462659/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-and-joint-chiefs-of-staff-chairman-gene/

I don't know the credibility of the source, but this is being repeated by some Russian telegrammers:

Here's an early version of the cause from a Russian Telegrammer: https://t.me/dva_majors/21320

A couple of other Russian telegrammers report that there were explosions heard near the bridge: https://t.me/RVvoenkor/49373

This appears to be the view from the Russian side: https://t.me/Aksenov82/2844 And then a follow-up: https://t.me/Aksenov82/2845

By the way, here are the most useful Ukrainian telegram channels covering the war that I've come across so far. Are there some others that people might recommend? Official: https://t.me/ministry_of_defense_ua https://t.me/AFUStratCom https://t.me/operativnoZSU https://t.me/annamaliar https://t.me/CinCAFU https://t.me/DIUkraine https://t.me/kpszsu https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official https://t.me/verkhovnaradaofukraine Non-official: https://t.me/DeepStateUA https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu https://t.me/supernova_plus Then, there's this list from the Kyiv Post: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17868 12 Telegram Accounts to Follow for the Latest Ukrainian Counteroffensive News There's also this list of non-telegram sources: https://mediacenter.org.ua/trusted-sources/

Update from Ukrainian deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar: https://t.me/annamaliar/938

I do like that WarGonzo's daily summaries attempt to capture the successes and failures from both sides, at least from their perspective. The Ukrainians seem to be making incremental progress by outflanking some Russian positions: https://t.me/wargonzo/13828

Fairly big update from Mashovets https://t.me/zvizdecmanhustu/1025

A somewhat interesting insight from Rybar in the update below: https://t.me/rybar/49717

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/2789

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/2788

Interesting ... but definitely bring a thread reader to read this. So many very short posts in this thread.

A conversation about the war between Russia and Ukraine, taking a very long view of the situation:

I'm no expert on WhatsApp. Besides painfully copying the text of your WhatsApp message and pasting it into the Google Translate app on your PC, you could try running the browser version of WhatsApp in Chrome and then try the same method I suggested for translating Telegram in the browser. Use this URL to go to the web browser version of WhatsApp: https://web.whatsapp.com/ If you go to this URL: https://translate.whatsapp.com/ it looks like Facebook is working on built-in translate functionality for WhatsApp, but it appears you have to be invited to participate:

Reported use of cluster munitions: https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/2785

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/world/europe/atacms-missiles-ukraine-us.html