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Ukraine frontlines intensify
On July 15, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded 235 combat engagements across the front, including 32 on the Pokrovsk direction, with operational data released as of 22:00 on the General Staff’s official page.
The aggressor conducted 52 air strikes using 170 guided air bombs, deployed 6,001 kamikaze drones for strikes, and carried out 2,273 shellings of Ukrainian troops’ positions and populated areas, according to the General Staff.
In the Northern Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, the occupiers launched ten assaults on the defensive positions of Ukrainian units and carried out two air strikes, dropped six aerial bombs, and conducted 48 shellings of populated areas and Ukrainian troops’ positions.
On the Southern Slobozhansky direction, the enemy attacked Ukrainian units’ positions 13 times in the area of Starytsia and in directions including Izbytske, Lyman, Vilcha, Symynivka, Kolodyazne, Kutkivka, Shevyakivka, Khatne, and Ambarne, with one engagement ongoing.
On the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy activity was recorded in 32 instances, and the General Staff said that according to preliminary estimates about 30 occupiers were eliminated and 7 wounded, while 225 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types were destroyed or suppressed.
Texas drowning case
In Rowlett, Texas, an 18-year-old man, Daniel Erving, drowned in Lake Ray Hubbard in April after he and two other young men—19-year-old Lucas Roper and a 17-year-old—jumped into the lake from a bridge, according to an arrest affidavit.
Dallas Police said after a thorough investigation they determined Daniel Erving’s cause of death was accidental, but the family is now calling for murder charges after Roper and the 17-year-old were arrested for tampering with evidence.
The two suspects are accused of throwing out Daniel Erving’s clothes and cellphone and driving away from the scene in his car, and the affidavit says Roper admitted to deleting text messages between him and the 18-year-old from his phone.
Daniel’s mother, Tameca Erving, said, “Complete agony, day and night, from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep,” while family attorney Sean Daredia said, “This family has a distrust of the Dallas Police Department.”
Dallas Police and the district attorney declined to comment due to this being an active investigation.
Epstein committee seeks affidavits
In Washington, the House Oversight Committee discussed with Jeffrey Epstein survivors the possibility of the women providing affidavits about longtime Epstein assistant Lesley Groff, coming after multiple survivors told CNN that Groff had lied to the committee last month.
CNN reported that House Oversight Chair James Comer told Jake Tapper, “We need affidavits, sworn affidavits,” as the committee deliberations were confirmed to CNN by three sources familiar with the matter.
The article says committee investigators have been poring over Groff’s testimony and references in the Epstein files to determine whether Groff was truthful, and it notes that Groff has denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
CNN also reported that Lara Blume McGee said she remembers meeting Groff at least twice at Epstein’s townhouse, and Lisa Phillips told CNN, “Of course I’ve met her in person.”
CNN added that Groff told lawmakers last month she had been duped by a “master manipulator and deceiver,” and it said the release of her interview transcript drew outrage from Epstein survivors.
