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Worth noting, korrespodent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning in May 9th, 2022. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:28 The American publication Politico writes that Ukraine has a plan in case of possible destruction of Zelensky during the war. Experts believe that such an event would be a psychological shock, but would not affect the defense of Ukraine. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov called the article "stuffing" and "complete nonsense." For more details, see Plan in case of Zelensky's death .
22:16 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today he heard "very informative" reports from representatives of the defense and security forces - in particular, the heads of the SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs on eliminating the consequences of Russian strikes on Kharkiv, Krivoy Rog, Kherson and other cities; Zaluzhny - on the general situation in the defense, commanders - on the situation in specific areas and the results of the use of air defense. "There was also a separate detailed report by the head of the GUR Budanov - the occupiers will definitely feel the consequences of our work. They will seriously feel it," the president added.
He also said that Ukraine is preparing a number of international events - the week will be very important for foreign policy. Zelensky recalled that a month remains before the start of the new political season in partner countries, "and we will do our best to make this season as conducive as possible to our movement forward, to victory, our desire to restore peace for all of Ukraine."
22:02 The UN opposes strikes on civilian infrastructure, said Deputy Representative of the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq, commenting on UAV attacks on Moscow: "We are against any attacks on civilian objects, wherever they are carried out. If, for example, a strike was made on civilian objects in Moscow, we are against it and we want it to stop."
21:41 The Polish Ministry of Defense stated that the country's airspace was violated by two Belarusian helicopters that were conducting exercises near the border. A decision was made to increase the number of soldiers on the border and allocate additional forces and resources, including combat helicopters. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said the accusations were "far-fetched".
21:15 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, commenting on the explosions in Crimea, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have the right to use weapons manufactured in Ukraine where they consider it necessary: "We will not ask anyone how to use the weapons that are produced on the territory of our countries in order to destroy the aggressor where we consider it necessary.
20:29 The Odessa military commissar with a villa in Spain is far from the only example of corruption in this area. Law enforcement officers stopped a large-scale scheme for issuing certificates of unfitness for military service. Read more in the material Corruption of military commissars .
19:57 The United States is still waiting for European officials to present the final plan for training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, which Washington will have to sanction before the program begins, CNN reports, citing sources. It is also still unclear which countries will send fighter jets to participate in the training program and for Ukraine itself when the program is completed. Transferring the planes to Ukraine would require separate US approval.
Pentagon officials told CNN that Washington is still deciding whether to send American pilots to help train Ukrainians, but no decisions will be made until a final training plan is approved.
19:26 Russian billionaires pay salaries to mercenaries who go to war in Ukraine. At the same time, their companies, through which all this is done, cleverly avoid sanctions. This scheme was exposed by journalists of the Russian edition of Important Stories . Read more in the article How business supplies militants to Putin .
18:54 Today, the Russian army is "quite persistently" trying to stop the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bakhmut direction, but to no avail, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. At the same time, in all eastern directions where hostilities are taking place, an increase in enemy shelling is recorded. "For our defenders, the main thing is the life of the fighters. Therefore, they try to move carefully so as not to lose people," Malyar stressed.
On the Kupyansky, Limansky, Svatovsky directions, the enemy has concentrated manpower and equipment and is storming in order to pull the Ukrainian forces away from the eastern direction of the offensive. The defense forces reflect all enemy assaults.
18:45 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev claims that in the Kara-Koba area, according to preliminary data, a drone was allegedly shot down, "an explosion occurred on the ground, grass and bushes caught fire."
18:37 In the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry announced an "unsuccessful" attack by three sea drones on patrol ships of the Black Sea Fleet Sergey Kotov and Vasily Bykov. Russian "military correspondents" also claim that among those attacked was a Sparta-IV container ship carrying weapons from Syria.
Babel's source in the security and defense sector said, citing an intercept, that the Russian sailors of one of these ships are now asking for the evacuation of the victims - we are talking about at least one dead and five wounded.
Russia calls this container ship civilian, but Babel's source says that large-caliber weapons are installed on the ship, and regular military personnel are on board, which is a gross violation of international maritime law. In fact, the ship becomes a legitimate military target.
18:13 Crimean publics report an explosion in Balaklava near Sevastopol, where a large base of the Russian Navy is located. After the explosion, a large plume of smoke rises into the sky.
17:35 The attack on Moscow was carried out by at least three different Ukrainian-made drones, writes The New York Times. The experts analyzed the footage in the public domain and came to the conclusion that one drone is a Beaver (Beaver), the second is a UJ 22 Airborne, and the type of the third drone could not be established. Russian media also write that the drones were launched from the territory of Ukraine.
17:12 By the end of the year, the work of the Ukraine-NATO Council is planned to be launched at all levels, said Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna.
16:47 The Russians fired on Pervomaiskoye, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region - according to preliminary data, one person was killed, one was injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
16:39 Donetsk publics report a strike near the railway station. And the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced a blow to the positions of the Russians between Makeevka and Yasinovataya.
16:28 Lukashenka said that he wants to leave Wagner PMC mercenaries in the Belarusian army and, "starting from them", more actively create contract armed forces. Lukashenka also denies the plans of the Wagnerites to seize the Suwalski corridor, and the transfer of mercenaries to the border with Poland, according to him, is not connected with plans to invade a neighboring country. Lukashenka called his statement about the intention of the Wagnerites to "go on an excursion" to Rzeszow and Warsaw a "joke".
15:59 The number of injured medical workers as a result of today's shelling of a hospital in Kherson has increased to five, one person died, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
15:33 A number of Ukrainian and some foreign media reported that "an Israeli ship was the first to break through the grain blockade" of Russia in the Black Sea. However, later it turned out that this information is not true. For more details, see the article Naval blockade of Russia: was there a breakthrough .
15:07 UNESCO confirmed the damage in Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion of 274 cultural sites, of which 117 are religious, 27 are museums. Most damaged objects are in Donetsk (78), Kharkiv (55), Kyiv (38), Lugansk (33) and Chernihiv (17) regions.
14:38 Slovakia handed over to Ukraine two of the 16 Zuzana 2 howitzers with a total value of 90 million euros, the production of which for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is jointly financed by Denmark, Norway and Germany. The howitzer transfer ceremony was attended by Slovak Prime Minister Ludovit Odor and Defense Minister Mirtin Sklenar.
14:16 In Crimea, the confrontation between the invaders and the pro-Ukrainian civilian population is growing, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. In particular, attacks on military targets using Molotov cocktails have become systematic. The organizers and performers of most of them are civilians who support Ukraine.
In turn, the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was transferred to a state of high combat readiness. Monitoring of "suspicious persons" is carried out, the use of physical force and weapons is allowed. There are mass detentions and arrests. A number of citizens who refused to receive Russian citizenship are considered “missing” after the arrests, while the rest are subject to administrative penalties, fines, and harassment. People are fired from their jobs, deprived of property and business.
Most of those detained and arrested are representatives of the Crimean Tatar people. Among them are the deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Dzhelal, journalist and member of the public association Crimean Solidarity Timur Ibragimov, public figure Rustem Seitmemetov.
13:13 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that at night Ukraine allegedly attempted an attack using three semi-submersible unmanned boats on Russian civilian transport ships en route to the Bosphorus. The ships of the Russian Navy, which accompanied the sea transport, all the boats were detected and destroyed in a timely manner, according to the Ministry of Defense.
12:47 The first country with which Ukraine will sign a bilateral agreement on security guarantees will be the United States, said Daria Zarivna, adviser to the head of the Presidential Office. Negotiations on this document will begin this week. He will specify the provisions of the framework agreement signed at the NATO summit in Vilnius. We are talking about defense support, the development of the military-industrial complex, the training of the Ukrainian military abroad, the exchange of intelligence, financial support and assistance in restoring the Ukrainian economy.
11:59 The Russians fired at one of the healthcare institutions in the Kherson community: a young doctor was killed and a nurse was wounded, said the head of the Kherson GVA Roman Mrochko.
11:25 Podolyak announced "more unidentified drones" in the Russian Federation: "Moscow is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war, which will soon finally cross over to the territory of the "authors of the war" in order to collect all their debts from them ... Everything that will happen next in Russia is objective historical process. More unidentified drones, more collapse, more civil conflicts, more war."
10:53 Ukraine has a plan in case Zelensky is killed in the face of Russian military aggression, writes Politico. The publication suggested that Ruslan Stefanchuk, Andrey Yermak, Dmitry Kuleba or Alexei Reznikov could replace the head of state.
10:49 British intelligence notes that Russian troops in southern Ukraine are facing problems with the coordination of forces, the need for rotation and shells. Intense hostilities on the southern front continue to focus on two directions: near the city of Orekhov, Zaporozhye region, and in the area of Velyka Novoselka, Donetsk region.
10:20 According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Belarus wants to conclude an agreement with Iran on the production of Shahed drones on its territory.
09:56 In Russia, over the past day, they tried to set fire to nine military registration and enlistment offices at once, local telegram channels write. In particular, such attempts were recorded in Rossosh (Voronezh region), Mozhaisk (Moscow region), Kazan, Omsk, St. Petersburg, Podolsk, Kaluga, Verkhneuralsk and Kopeysk (Chelyabinsk region).
Almost all the arsonists, including the 78-year-old pensioner, claim that they were called by scammers. So, in Mozhaisk, unknown people convinced a woman by phone that criminals were hiding in the military registration and enlistment office, so they needed to throw a Molotov cocktail there.
09:22 Forbes confirmed the information that three foreign ships entered the Ukrainian port - for the first time since Russia's withdrawal from the grain deal. The cargo ships are owned by Greek, Israeli and Turkish-Georgian companies. They arrived on July 30 at one of the Ukrainian grain terminals in the Danube Delta. According to Forbes, they went with the included transponders, not hiding their course. They were observed by four NATO reconnaissance aircraft.
According to analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), this may indicate that Russia is either unwilling or unable to conduct ship searches at the moment.
09:17 In the Chernihiv region at night, a Russian DRG consisting of four people tried to cross the border and penetrate into Ukraine, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Naev. Fire was opened to kill, which forced the enemy to retreat.
09:11 The number of victims of yesterday's missile attack on Krivoy Rog exceeded 80 people, including seven children. 19 victims remain in hospitals, all in a state of moderate severity, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak.
09:05 Over the past day, the Russians carried out 51 shelling of the Kherson region, firing 260 shells from mortars, artillery, Gradov, UAVs and aviation. In particular, the enemy fired 61 shells at Kherson - residential buildings, an office building and an educational institution in the Kherson region were damaged, the territory of an enterprise in the Berislav region was damaged. As a result of the shelling, four people were killed, another 18 were injured, including one child, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
08:56 At night, the Russians attacked Kharkov with Shahed-type drones. A hit was recorded in a three-story building of an educational institution in the Saltovsky district - two floors were destroyed, a fire broke out. People were not injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Three more hits were recorded on the territory of a sports complex in the Shevchenko district. A two-story building was damaged, one person was injured. Zelensky clarified that the enemy attacked Kharkiv with five "Shaheds".
During the day, the enemy shelled the settlements of Chuguevsky, Bogodukhovsky, Kharkov, Izyumsky and Kupyansky districts. Residential buildings were damaged, fires broke out, people were not injured.
08:47 The United States has concluded agreements with Bulgaria and South Korea on the supply of 155-mm ammunition to Ukraine and is negotiating with Japan, the Financial Times writes, citing officials. According to them, Ukraine now fires up to 8,000 artillery rounds a day. The US Army is also building more production lines, including refurbishing a facility in Ontario, Canada and building a new assembly line in Texas.
08:29 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 1:
- personnel - about 246,690 (+500) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4216 (+5),
- armored combat vehicles - 8205 (+17),
- artillery systems - 4839 (+23),
- MLRS - 699 (+0),
- air defense systems - 462 (+2),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 311 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4027 (+10),
- cruise missiles - 1347 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7324 (+32),
- special equipment - 718 (+3).
08:12 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly attacked patrol ships of the Black Sea Fleet Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov at night with three unmanned boats, 340 km southwest of Sevastopol. Moscow claims that all three boats have been destroyed.
07:27 Over the past day, more than 40 clashes have occurred at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, in the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks east of Berestovoye in the Kharkiv region and near Novoselovsky, Luhansk region. In the Maryinsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to restrain the offensive of Russian troops in the areas of Maryinka and Pobeda. In the Shakhtyorsky direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Staromayorsk region.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, and consolidate on the achieved lines.
04:19 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that on the night of August 1, an attempt to attack drones on objects in Moscow and the Moscow Region was stopped. Two "Ukrainian UAVs" were allegedly destroyed by air defense systems over the territory of the Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts of the Moscow region, another was suppressed by electronic warfare and, having lost control, crashed on the territory of the Moscow City non-residential building complex.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that one of the drones flew to the same tower in the City as last time. The facade at the level of the 21st floor was damaged, the glazing of 150 sq. m, no casualties.
00:53 The Russians attacked Kharkov with kamikaze drones. A fire broke out at the site of the hit, there were no reports of casualties, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
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