During the day, the Russian army launched 3 missile and 3 air strikes, more than 5 attacks from multiple rocket launcher systems. The districts of 7 settlements of the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolaiv and Sumy regions were hit, the General Staff reports. During the day, the Ukrainian aviation made 18 strikes against Russians, and air defense forces shot down 3 Russian drones. Also, the Armed Forces hit 2 Russian command centres, 10 areas of manpower concentration, weapons and military equipment, 2 electronic warfare stations and a number of other important military facilities of the Russian Army.
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At the same time, the Russian army has managed to partially secure its positions near Donetsk-Pisky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated seven more settlements in Kherson Oblast. The United States is preparing a new defense aid package for Ukraine worth one billion dollars, which should include ammunition for HIMARS MLRS, NASAMS anti-aircraft defense systems, as well as armored medical vehicles. In Marhanka, two people were injured in the shelling, one person is in the hospital. In addition, Russian troops shelled two districts of Mykolaiv region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated 1,534 settlements in five regions of Ukraine — Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Kherson, Deputy Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko said. More than 500 settlements have already been cleared of mines, the National Police has resumed its work in 1,200 settlements, and local self-government bodies have started working in 1,508 settlements. Putin may conduct a nuclear test near the Ukrainian border, writes The Times with reference to its defense sources. Fears in this regard increased after the appearance of information about a train of a secret nuclear unit moving towards Ukraine.
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As of 8 a.m., this was reported to the Suspilne at the military-civilian administration headquarters. On August 24, Russian troops shelled the village of Chapline in the Dnipropetrovsk region several times. During the first shelling, the rocket destroyed a private house. A woman and a child were rescued from the rubble, one child died. According to data on the morning of August 25, 22 adults and three children were killed, and more than 30 were injured. In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, Russian military personnel will live in schools, where the educational process will take place at the same time, in order to avoid shelling by the Armed Forces.
- At the same time, Germany declared its readiness to provide asylum and international protection to defectors from the Russian army, who are threatened with repression in the Russian Federation by the Putin regime.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks near five populated areas and struck ammunition depots and 25 strongholds and places of concentration of the Russian military, the General Staff reports.
- Almost 24,000 are in the residential sector, Kyiv authorities reported.
- According to British intelligence, Russia is again in control of the greater Severodonetsk, fighting is taking place in the suburbs.
The Security Service of Ukraine completed searches in the churches of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Kherson, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr and Volyn regions. According to the results of the searches, Russian passports, “passes of federal advisers of the Russian Federation” and the flag of “Novorossiya” were found. Washington is not against Germany’s transfer of Leopard 2 heavy tanks to Ukraine, but has left it up to Berlin, said the head of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. Germany’s leadership is hesitant to provide Leopard 2, citing the fact that none of Ukraine’s partners have yet supplied such tanks. Commanders from “Azovstal”, who are in Turkey under the terms of the exchange, can meet with their families before the holidays, the President’s Office reported. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Rastislav Kacher said that this issue was discussed with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
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- On June 8, during a press conference in Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara considers the “grain corridor” in the Black Sea.
- The United Kingdom will allocate up to 10 million pounds to Ukraine for railway repairs to unblock grain exports, the government said.
- Saudi Arabia will allocate $400 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
- And according to a study by Keep Going, 40% of small businesses are currently in the warzone, and only 16% of the respondents have moved to other regions.
Ukraine demands that the Russian Federation “stops provocations”. Later, despite the danger, IAEA representatives continued their way to Enerhodar. IAEA head Rafael Grossi said that bond market holidays 2020 even with “increased military activity in the area”, the mission will go on. Mortar shelling is going on in Enerhodar, the city neighbouring the Zaporizhzhia NPP, since 5 a.m. Some people were injured according to the preliminary information, and civil infrastructure has been hit as well, said Mayor Orlov.
Six battalions of the Belarusian army are located near the Ukrainian border around Volyn and Polissia, according to MoD. A Russian military convoy with S-400 SAM and KAMAZ trucks carrying missiles was also spotted in Belarusian Mozyr. The Ukrainian military repelled a Russian attack around Dementiivka, Dovhalivka, and Zalyman (the last two in the Izium direction) in Kharkiv Oblast, reports the General Staff. Assault on Dolyna and Mazanivka villages in Donetsk Oblast, through which Russians are trying to approach Sloviansk, was repelled as well.
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At night, the occupiers fired two rockets at a school in Zaporizhzhia. In Dnipropetrovsk region, Nikopol region came under the fire of the occupiers again. In addition to the assault on Kyiv, in the morning the Russian military attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in two oblasts—Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the “Come Back Alive” Foundation announced the launch of a new project related to the destruction of military targets at a long distance. The fund reported that the team has been working on the project for about two months and recently signed a final contract for it.
Heavy battles continue on the outskirts of Luhansk Oblast around Lysychansk. The Russian army has engaged many forces and equipment, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Serhii Haidai. He stated, however, that Russians have suffered many casualties, and hospitals in the occupied territories are overcrowded. Four X-31 missiles were fired from a Su-30 aircraft, one of which hit a residential house in a coastal village, and another one — a port infrastructure facility.
The meeting of the leaders of the G7 countries – the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – will take place today in the Bavarian Alps. Russia’s Defense Ministry has announced a change in the leadership of the central and southern groups at war with Ukraine. This confirms the preliminary assessment of the American Institute for Studies of War (ISW) that the Russian Supreme Command is restructuring the leadership of operations in Ukraine. One of the rockets that exploded on the night of June 26 in Kharkiv damaged at least five houses. The UK will allocate up to £10 million for railway repairs in Ukraine, announced the UK government.
This happened after the attacks on a dam in central Ukraine near Kryvyi Rih. Ukrainian forces are advancing further downstream along both rivers. In the eighth package of EU sanctions against Russia, there will probably be no limits on oil prices. Most likely, there will be sanctions on chemicals, machines, and steel products, reports Radio Liberty’s Brussels correspondent Rikard Jozwiak.
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Support for Ukraine’s accession to the North Atlantic Alliance among the country’s citizens is at the highest level in the entire history of observations. This is stated in the results of a study conducted by the sociological service “Rating” at the beginning of October. “In the referendum, 83% would support this initiative, against 4%, and 9% would not vote,” the report says. Estonian law enforcement officers handed over drones that a Russian trucker tried to take out of Estonia to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, reports the press service of the Estonian police.
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The Ministry of Defense ordered clothes for the military worth almost UAH 18 billion. We are talking about summer and winter-autumn uniforms, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said. For the first time in 20 years, the euro fell to the level of $1.01 per euro. Analysts assume that this happened due to fears in Europe that it is threatened with a shortage of gas. The Russians have stopped the water supply in Mariupol and will not be able to start the heating season, because almost all boiler houses in the city are damaged, and some have been destroyed, the Mariupol City Council reported. These vehicles were developed in the 1950s as an artillery tractor, have very limited armor and only a machine gun for protection, the intelligence explained.
