Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:50 Near the village of Staroe Selo, Sumy region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the bridge across the Psel River and the approaches to it, as well as the sides of the adjacent highway, while the local population was deliberately not warned about this.
The militants are planning to blow up the bridge and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of supposedly indiscriminate strikes on transport industry facilities, according to an already worked out scenario with wide coverage in Ukrainian and Western media.
20:47 In Kyiv, a local confectionery began to produce cupcakes with photographs of mothers and wives of dead Russian soldiers.
Previously, similar cakes were made with dead soldiers and officers of the RF Armed Forces.
20:46 Ukrainian troops shelled the area of ​​the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, at least 6 "arrivals" were recorded, the station itself was not damaged, the authorities of the region told RIA Novosti
20:39 A resident of Irpin was declared suspected for denying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
The woman, in conversations with acquaintances, denied the facts of the killings of civilians by the Russian military.
19:27 Today, in Energodar, law enforcement officers detained two Ukrainian artillery spotters. They helped to strike at the territory of the nuclear power plant and the city.
17:40 The UN Secretary General arrived in Lviv, where tomorrow he will hold a trilateral meeting with Zelensky and Erdogan.
17:22 Military commissar Poddubny: “Ukraine continues to collect weapons that have been decommissioned by other countries. It is reported that Croatia has reopened and handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine 15 each Soviet 130-mm guns M-46. Whether Zagreb handed over ammunition is not known. M-46 fires up to six rounds per minute, firing range 27.5 km.
17:00 NATO is ready to intervene in the situation around Kosovo if stability is under threat - Stoltenberg.
13:26 Two more fresh Ukrainian colonels liquidated in the last days of the RF Armed Forces.
1. Colonel Igor Oleksyuk
2. Colonel Petr Melnyk
13:00 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of August 17, 2022
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit nine command posts;
- At the railway station Kalinindorf, Kherson region, a large number of servicemen of the reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, weapons and military equipment were destroyed during unloading;
- Three fuel depots and nine depots of rocket and artillery weapons were hit;
— Four Ukrainian UAVs were shot down;
11:47 In Dzhankoy and Yalta, a conspiratorial cell of terrorists "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami" (banned in Russia), consisting of six citizens of Russia, was neutralized - FSB.
11:36 There will be no global famine, especially since grain prices have been steadily declining over the past few months, and this is largely due to the agreements that were reached between the Russian Federation, the UN, Turkey and Ukraine - Dmitry Birichevsky, Director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
10:25 The detonation of ammunition at the ammunition depot blown up by saboteurs in the Dzhankoy district stopped in the morning. Sappers began to work on the spot, who must ensure the complete clearance of the territory and the possibility of the return of evacuated citizens.
10:22 In Odessa, the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was "covered" at night.
09:10 Explosions of ammunition at a military warehouse near Dzhankoy in the north of Crimea have stopped - the head of the district.
08:16 Zelensky's traditional evening address. The key thesis is that Zelensky called on the inhabitants of Crimea and other territories controlled by the Russian troops not to approach military facilities and warehouses of the Russian army. He stated that the destruction of the logistics of the Russian army will continue. He thanked all Ukrainians who help the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian special services and intelligence.
08:05 "15 percent imposed sanctions against Russia, 85% did not impose sanctions against Russia": Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian calculates who in the world community is for Russia and who is against it.
08:04 Russian servicemen became winners in the individual race of the international competition "Masters of armored vehicles"
08:02 Russian Aerospace Forces in the morning launched rocket attacks on Nazi military facilities in Odessa, Nikolaev and Kharkov.