On Wednesday, July 24, Ukraine’s Defense Forces repelled one of the largest mechanized attacks by Russia since October 2023 in the western Donetsk region, according to the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Analysts note that the Ukrainian Armed Forces halted a reinforced Russian mechanized attack, numbering up to a battalion, near Kostyantynivka after Russian troops advanced to the southeastern outskirts of the settlement. According to a statement by the Ukrainian brigade operating in the Kurakhiv direction, the Russians simultaneously deployed 11 tanks, 45 armored fighting vehicles, a …