Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) reportedly conducted successful drone strikes against an oil depot near Tsimlyansk, Rostov Oblast on the morning of July 13.
- Russia and Iran continue to signal their commitment to deepening bilateral relations and multilateral cooperation.
- A detained Russian businessman and a Russian military official who were reportedly connected to detained former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov recently died on the same day.
- Armenian border guards, cooperating with Russian authorities, reportedly detained a Russian citizen in Yerevan, likely as part of a continued Kremlin effort to assert political power over Armenia and challenge Armenia's sovereignty amid deteriorating Russian-Armenian relations.
- Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions near Kupyansk and Svatove, and Russian forces recently advanced near Kreminna, Toretsk and Avdiivka and in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area.
- The Russian military continues efforts to improve training capacity.
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Authors: Angelica Evans, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, and Frederick W. Kagan.
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If this information is confirmed, it would be the first time such a weapon had been used since Russia invaded in February 2022.
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