Russian losses according to the Ukrainian army
Russian forces lost 42,800 men, 232 aircraft and 1,832 tanks according to Kyiv Independent estimates.
Strikes on Mykolaiv
A shelling injured three people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the city of Mykolaiv, according to Vitaly Kim, the governor of the region. He added that residential buildings were damaged as a result of the strikes which occurred around 1:40 a.m.
“Don’t let the Russians kill you”
“We spent a horrible night (…) It’s very hard to get the bodies out of the rubble,” Governor Valentin Reznitchenko wrote on Telegram after Russian bombardments in the Dnipropetrovsk region, in the center-east of Ukraine which killed 13 people. “I beg you, go to safe places during the air raids (…) Don’t let the Russians kill you,” he begs.
The town of Marganets, located on the other bank of the Dnipro river opposite the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporizhiia, and the village of Vychtchetarassivka were targeted in this attack with Grad multiple rocket launchers.
“Eighty rockets were deliberately and insidiously launched at residential neighborhoods while people were sleeping in their homes,” the governor said.
The sale of the first shipment of cereals exported by Ukraine canceled
The five-month delivery period, however, “prompted the buyer and the shipper to agree on the cancellation of the order”, explained the Ukrainian embassy last night in a press release published shortly before midnight.
According to her, the sender is studying “other purchase requests”.
Russia will have to continue to “strengthen the offensive in the Donbass”
According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russia will have to continue to “reinforce the offensive in the Donbass”. Russian army commanders will face “consolidating defenses against planned Ukrainian counterattacks in the south,” the weekly bulletin predicts.
Latvia wants to join kyiv’s petition against Russia before the ECHR
Latvia officially asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday to join the Ukrainian case against Russia.
The ECHR announced at the end of June that it had registered a formal interstate application by Ukraine against Russia, a rather rare procedure intended to note the human rights violations committed by Moscow since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
13 civilians killed in Russian shelling in Dnipropetrovsk region
Thirteen civilians were killed in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in Russian bombardments in the Dnipropetrovsk region, in central eastern Ukraine, announced Governor Valentin Reznichenko.
Two injured succumbed to their injuries, adding to the death toll of eleven announced by the governor a few minutes earlier on Telegram.
Russian disinformation sites are on the rise
Six months after the banning of Sputnik and RT, two of the Kremlin’s main channels for spreading wartime propaganda and disinformation, NewsGuard, a New York-based firm that researches and tracks online disinformation, has identified 250 sites actively spreading Russian disinformation about the war, with dozens more added in recent months, AP news reports.
Washington releases 89 million dollars to demine Ukraine
The United States announced on Tuesday that it would spend $89 million to help Ukraine destroy anti-personnel mines, which it said were voluntarily planted by Russian soldiers in populated areas in the north of the country before withdrawing in march.
This envelope, which will be used to finance a hundred teams of deminers belonging to NGOs or specialized private companies, represents “emergency aid to Ukraine to get rid of anti-personnel mines and other explosive remnants of war “, declared to the press an official of the Department of State, which finances this program.
“This war started with Crimea and must end with Crimea”
“This Russian war against Ukraine and against all of free Europe began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – with its liberation.” These words are those of Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily video address.
“Russia has transformed our peninsula, which has always been and will be one of the best places in Europe, into one of the most dangerous places in Europe,” said the Ukrainian president. But we will come back to Ukrainian Crimea. From the Kharkiv region to Kherson, from Donetsk to Enerhodar, from Stanytsia Luhanska to Yalta, from Berdyansk to Novofedorivka – these are all parts of our country, this is Ukraine, which will be completely free. »
The Russians will connect the Zaporizhia power plant to Crimea
Russian forces occupying the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia are preparing to connect it to Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, and are damaging it by carrying out this reorientation of electricity production, the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom, warned on Tuesday. .
“Right now the plant is operating with a single production line, which is an extremely dangerous way of working,” Energoatom chairman Petro Kotin told Ukrainian television.
“When the last production line is disconnected, the plant will be powered by generators running on diesel. Everything will then depend on their reliability and fuel stocks, ”also warned Petro Kotin.
Donetsk flight continues
In Ukraine’s battle-torn eastern region of Donetsk, more than 3,000 civilians, including 600 children, have been evacuated since authorities made such evacuations mandatory in late July, kyiv said.
There now remains “only a population of 350,000 people, including 50,000 children”, about 1.3 million in total having left following the outbreak of the war.
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