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22:10 Poland is deploying additional groups on the border with Belarus and continues to build up its military presence there due to the deployment of Wagner PMC mercenaries on the territory of a neighboring state. The new task force Podlasie will operate as part of the Rengav special operation. More details - in the material Poland restrains Wagner.
21:44 As a result of a Russian missile attack on the night of August 14, about ten blocks of historical buildings were damaged in the center of Odessa, the Ministry of Culture said. In particular, the production buildings of the Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater were damaged. In addition, about 30 monuments of cultural heritage were partially destroyed, including the hostel of the Odessa College of Arts. Dankevich, Museum of the Ukrainian Book of the Odessa Universal Scientific Library. Grushevsky and five academic buildings of the Pedagogical University named after. Ushinsky.
20:49 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today, during a visit to the Donetsk region, he talked with the commanders of brigades and battalions about their front-line needs: "These were detailed, frank conversations about our offensive actions, about deliveries to the troops, about the capabilities of commanders, about what these capabilities are now and what they should be Weapons and scarce ammunition Repair of equipment An acute issue is transport for the evacuation of the wounded and the time of evacuation Drones are what the enemy uses: Lancets, Eagles - and what our soldiers need , from Moviks to every other drone system."
Also among the important topics, according to the president, is how commanders can manage personnel: "Motivation of soldiers, training of fighters, staffing of units. There are a lot of problems due to poor quality work of the VLK. We will prepare solutions."
20:16 In the coming months, Romania intends to double the volume of transit of Ukrainian grain to its main Black Sea port of Constanta to 4 million tons per month, including through the Danube, the country's Ministry of Transport said.
19:40 "Tribunal" in the "DNR" sentenced to 25 years Azov fighter Andrei Bogdan, who allegedly shot a "prisoned militiaman" during the fighting in Mariupol, Russian media reported.
18:57 The German government plans annual military support for Ukraine in the amount of 5 billion euros until 2027, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said. At the same time, he added that the decision still needs to be approved by Parliament. In addition to the military component, the aid includes humanitarian support, including the accommodation of displaced persons. Lindner noted that since the beginning of the full-scale war, Germany's assistance to Ukraine has reached 22 billion euros.
18:22 Zelensky said that today he is on a working trip in the Donetsk region , visited the headquarters of the brigades that are conducting an offensive in the zone of responsibility of the Soledar operational-tactical group. In particular, the president visited the command posts of eight different brigades, listened to reports and discussed problematic issues with brigade commanders and battalion commanders.
17:56 The United States announced the provision of a new $200 million military aid package to Ukraine. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the new package is provided through the Presidential Drawdown Authority mechanism, which allows weapons to be transferred from US stockpiles. The package will include:
- additional ammunition for the Patriot and HIMARS systems, 155 mm and 105 mm artillery shells, as well as 120 mm tank ammunition;
- TOW missiles, Javelin anti-tank systems and others;
- 37 tactical vehicles for transporting equipment, 58 trailers for water equipment;
- more than 12 million small arms cartridges;
- demining equipment and systems, projectiles for clearing obstacles and spare parts for equipment repair.
17:08 Ukraine will receive the CORTEX Typhon C-UAS anti-drone system from Norway, the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace said.
17:05 The Department of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) confirmed that today at about 11:00 the Defense Forces hit the command post of the Russian troops, located in the Volna sanatorium in the village of Yuryevka near Mariupol.
16:56 After the activation of Russian troops in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, the Defense Forces managed to prevent the advance of the enemy and significantly reduced its offensive potential, Anna Malyar said. According to her, a certain decrease in the number of shelling is now recorded in the East - the enemy is regrouping and trying to restore lost opportunities.
The situation in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions is complicated - the Russian Federation is constantly attacking. In the Kupyansky direction, the enemy is increasing the density of minefields along the border in the Belgorod region, in the Limansky direction, it continues assault operations in order to oust the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Serebryansky forest area of ​​the Donetsk region, but to no avail. Heavy fighting is going on in the Bakhmut direction.
In the South, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, there are battles. In the direction of Urozhaynoye, to the south and southeast of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, they were successful, and they are gaining a foothold on the achieved lines. The defense forces of the Taurida direction continue the liberation of the settlement. Harvest.
16:18 Russia declares its intention to create a number of new military formations and restore the combat capability of its army, but without mass mobilization it will not succeed, said Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. According to him, the Kremlin has been preparing for the announcement of mass mobilization for a long time.
At the same time, Skibitsky noted that about 70% of the Russian population supports the continuation of the war against Ukraine: "But this is such kitchen-sofa support - there are few people who want to go to the trenches and look for death on the battlefield in Ukraine."
15:37 For the first time since the beginning of the war, a passenger plane flew through the territory of Ukraine. Turkish airline BBN Airlines reported that on July 25, its Airbus A320-200 charter aircraft on an Oslo-Antalya flight deviated from the route due to an impending storm and ended up in a closed sky over Ukraine. From Hungary, the plane flew for a considerable time into the southwestern regions of Ukraine, and then left for Romania. The airline promised to "actively take measures to prevent such incidents."
15:03 The Russians fired on the village. Bugaevka, Chuguevsky district, Kharkiv region - two people were injured, including a 14-year-old teenager. Also, during the shelling, several fragments hit the ambulance, the medical team was not injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
14:45 Israel will transfer several tons of medicines to Ukraine in the coming days, Israeli Ambassador to Kiev Michael Brodsky said.
14:22 The Russians fired on the village of Kazachya Lopan, Kharkiv region - one person was killed, two were injured, the OVA reported. In addition, two people were wounded as a result of enemy shelling of the village of Podoli, Kupyansky district. In Izyum, one person was admitted to the hospital in the morning, wounded at night.
14:16 The so-called occupation "government" of the Kherson region is planned to be moved from the Arabat Spit to the Crimea, deputy of the Kherson regional council Sergei Khlan said.
14:01 The Russian landing force stopped and landed on a foreign cargo ship moving to Ukraine. Moreover, the incident took place in the territorial waters of Turkey. Everything that is known about him is in the material Russian attack on a Turkish ship .
13:18 The court sentenced to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property, the former first deputy head of the Special Operations Center "A" of the SBU, Major General Valery Shaitanov, for treason and attempted terrorist act in the interests of the Russian Federation, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
Prosecutors proved in court that Major General of the SBU collected information constituting state secrets and passed it on to representatives of the Russian Federation. He also planned the assassination of a major of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who, since February 2015, during the war in eastern Ukraine, led the International Peacekeeping Battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev.
12:29 No one has ever ruled out the possibility of a second enemy attack on Kiev, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Naev in an interview with RBC-Ukraine: "We understand that enemy intentions depend only on the decisions of the top political leadership of the Russian Federation. Considering the above, such a possibility exists, but as of now it is not backed up by forces and means, but this does not mean that it cannot happen in the future."
Naev assured that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are doing everything to increase the ability to prevent successful hostile actions in the Kiev direction. "Given that the enemy may do this in the future, we involve the heads of the UVA and other components of the defense and security forces in this work," he added.
12:07 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced a strike on the Russian base in Yuryevka. The occupiers were stationed in the Volna camp, "the number goes to dozens," he added. An explosion was also heard from Yuryevka / Yalta, the consequences are being specified.
11:32 In Poland, they arrested two Russians who put up leaflets with a call to join Wagner PMCs on the streets of Krakow and Warsaw, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. They are accused of espionage.
10:50 Poland will buy 1,000 modern K2 tanks from South Korea, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said. The first 180 vehicles are to be delivered by 2025. Blaszczak said that Poland is building the strongest land army in Europe.
10:37 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the provocative actions of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea against the Turkish dry cargo ship Sukru Okan and called on the international community to take decisive measures to prevent Moscow's actions that impede the peaceful passage of ships in the Black Sea.
Kyiv emphasizes that the Russian Navy grossly violated the UN Charter, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and other norms of international law. "Russia should be deprived of the ability to block international routes in the Black Sea, in particular to Ukrainian seaports. In this regard, Ukraine calls on partners to step up efforts to keep the Black Sea Grain Initiative functioning," the statement said.
10:16 One of Putin's closest friends, Arkady Rotenberg, has his own PMC Convoy, which is fighting in Ukraine, the Dossier Center reports. According to him, in the month and a half of autumn 2022 alone, 437.5 million rubles were spent on its financing. The PMC is led by the former right hand of Prigozhin, Colonel Konstantin Pikalov with the call sign Mazai.
PMC Convoy has a base in the Crimea near the village of Perevalnoye. Mercenaries are recruited through social media ads. There are only two requirements: to be a man and under 60 years old, they pay 200-300 thousand rubles a month. Now there are about 400 people in the PMC who are on combat duty in the Kherson region.
09:57 Putin will visit Turkey in the coming days, the Turkish newspaper Milliyet writes, citing sources. This will be his first visit to a NATO country since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. According to the publication, on the eve of the visit, Ankara stepped up negotiations with Ukraine, the United States and EU countries to restart the grain agreement.
09:31 "Head" of the occupied Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that at the federal level he initiates changes to laws to tighten responsibility for the dissemination of personnel for the work of military facilities, air defense and the results of "terrorist attacks in Kiev."
08:58 Over the past week, the defense forces have liberated 3 sq. km in the Bakhmut direction, said Anna Malyar. According to her, in total, 40 square meters have already been liberated on the southern flank of the Bakhmut direction. km of territory. This week the enemy tried to regain lost positions in the areas west of Kleshcheevka, Andreevka and Kurdyumovka.
08:49 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured, in Kharkiv - also two. In the Zaporozhye region, two people died as a result of a missile attack on Stepnoye, and another was injured, according to the IVA.
08:42 The Russians fired at the residential areas of Kherson at night, three people were injured, the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin said. During the day on August 13, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, seven people were killed, including two children, and another 13 people were injured.
08:37 The Ukrainian military had success in Urozhayne on the southern front, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had "certain successes" south and southeast of Staromayorsky. In addition, Malyar confirmed that the Ukrainian military successfully completed tasks on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region: "There were certain tasks carried out by certain units. Of course, we cannot disclose what exactly was done, but we coped with these tasks."
08:25 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 14:
- personnel - about 254,380 (+530) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4306 (+8),
- armored combat vehicles - 8354 (+19),
- artillery systems - 5099 (+27),
- MLRS - 714 (+1),
- air defense systems - 479 (+2),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 313 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4213 (+9),
- cruise missiles - 1379 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7562 (+19),
- special equipment - 766 (+6).
08:11 On the night of August 14, the enemy launched several waves of attacks with strike drones and Caliber cruise missiles, the Air Force command reported. UAVs attacked from the southeast direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk), Caliber - from the Black Sea (an enemy frigate in the Yalta region). In total, the enemy used 15 Shahed-136/131 attack drones and eight Caliber missiles - all of them were destroyed. In addition, this morning in the Bakhmut direction, an anti-aircraft missile unit of the Air Force destroyed an enemy helicopter (the type is being specified).
07:58 Over the past day, 33 combat clashes have occurred at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . Thus, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the areas of Andreevka and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk region, in the regions west of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, and east of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the areas southeast of Andreevka, Lugansk region. In the Avdiivka direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold back the offensive of Russian troops in the Avdiivka area of ​​the Donetsk region, in the Maryinsky direction - in the Maryinka area. The defense forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions.
06:01 The enemy attacked the Odessa region three times at night, the Defense Forces of the south of Ukraine report. Two waves of shock drones with a total of 15 pieces and eight sea-based Caliber missiles were recorded. All attacks were repulsed by the air defense forces. As a result of the fall of debris in the center of Odessa, a hostel of one of the educational institutions and a supermarket were damaged. The blast wave shattered windows in several buildings, damaged balconies and cars parked nearby. Fires broke out at two sites. It is preliminary known about three affected employees of the supermarket.