21 July 2024 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• Air defense destroyed all Russian drones heading for Kyiv at night
• The Russians struck the critical infrastructure of Sumy Oblast
• Air defense forces shot down 35 Russian Shaheds
• Poland calls on the EU to strengthen ties with the US to counter Russian disinformation
• The Russians struck again in the Sumy region when rescuers were putting out the fire
• President of Latvia: The Georgian authorities have gone too far
• The Russians attacked Nikopol with flechette ammunition
• Zelenskyi said that the Russians lost 20,000 killed in the Kharkiv region
• Germany is working on a strategy to modernize the defense complex
• The Russian Federation has declared its readiness to help the ruling party of Georgia retain power
• Biden announced his withdrawal from the presidential race
• Biden endorsed Harris as the Democratic presidential candidate
• Trump reacted harshly to Biden's decision to withdraw from the race
• France refused accreditation to the Olympics to a number of Russians and Belarusians due to the threat of espionage
• At the front, there were 77 skirmishes per day, a third of them in the Pokrovsky direction
• 117 skirmishes took place on the front during the day, almost 40 Russian attacks were repulsed in the Pokrovsky direction
• The Armed Forces destroyed more than a thousand invaders and 18 tanks in a day