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2023-08-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 10th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 10:43 pm Biden has asked Congress for about $40 billion in additional funding, of which $24 billion is intended to help Ukraine, Politico journalist Emma Caitlin said.
22:38 The number of victims of the Russian strike on Zaporozhye has grown to 13 people, two of them are children, said the head of the OVA, Yuriy Malashko.
22:15 Zelensky announced more defense packages and more defense systems, including air defense, in an evening video message. The President also announced the preparation of the Ukrainian Doctrine: "A solid text, the basis for the transformation of our state. We do not forget our main goal - to win the war and not lose the country. Ukraine must necessarily realize its historical chance for development, obtained by the courage of our people - all our people We are preparing more defense packages for our soldiers and more protective systems for the entire Ukrainian society, in particular, air defense systems."
The president also said that today he had a "closed but productive conversation" with representatives of the British military leadership.
21:46 17 UAV companies have already been integrated into the Ukrainian troops, said Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development. According to him, by the end of this year, the production of drones in Ukraine will grow by 100-110 times, but this is still not enough. The Deputy Prime Minister said that to date, 40 companies have received permission to sell drones to the state, and by the end of the year it will be 60-70 organizations.
21:18 The situation in the East is difficult, but the enemy fails to achieve its goals: The Defense Forces are effectively holding back the offensive of Russian troops in the Kupyansk and Liman directions, Anna Malyar said. On the Bakhmut direction on the southern flank, Ukrainian troops continue offensive operations. The troops of the Russian Federation unsuccessfully made attempts to restore the lost position in the vicinity of Kleshcheevka, heavy fighting continues.
According to Malyar, the Avdeevskoye and Maryinskoye directions are impregnable for the enemy: "No matter how much they try to advance there, nothing comes out. But it is not easy to stop them there." Offensive operations continue in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions: "Despite the super-heavy combat conditions and enemy resistance, our troops have partial success in the direction of Harvest, to the south and southeast of Staromayorsky."
20:35 The German government may soon decide on the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. At first, the German government stated that such supplies were not considered, but now this position may change. More and more German politicians are calling for the Taurus to be provided to Ukraine to help the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is still going quite slowly. Read more in the material What will change the supply of missiles .
20:27 In Zaporozhye, as a result of a Russian strike, one person died, five were injured, the information is being specified, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. Judging by the photo, the rocket hit the Reikartz hotel. Minor damage to medical and educational institutions was also recorded.
19:53 The enemy hit a civilian infrastructure facility in Zaporizhia, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. A fire started at the site of impact, currently two victims are known.
19:48 The Russians fired on the village of Podily, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region - a shell hit a residential building, one person died, one was injured, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. In addition, the enemy fired on the village of Volchanskie Khutor, Chuguevsky district - one person was wounded.
19:22 Azerbaijan will give Ukraine a machine for mechanized demining and will conduct trainings for Ukrainian sappers, the country's government said following the visit of the delegation to Kiev. In general, Baku declared its readiness to help Ukraine in four areas: the rehabilitation of war-affected children, military personnel, assistance in the energy sector and post-war reconstruction. In particular, the country intends to rebuild Irpin, Kyiv region.
19:16 Metropolitan of Chalcedon Emmanuel arrived on a visit to Ukraine - Zelensky has already met with him. According to the president, this visit is "an extremely important signal of support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people by the Ecumenical Patriarchate." "During our conversation today, we paid attention to the spiritual independence of our country. We discussed the Ukrainian formula for peace, as well as the issue of returning children illegally deported from Ukraine," Zalensky added.
18:37 Ukraine does not have enough weapons to change the balance of the war in its favor, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with The Washington Post: "Ukraine does not have enough weapons to change the balance of the war and win. And we know this because right now they are not in a position to mount a decisive counter-offensive against the Russian forces. In short, they need more help." At the same time, according to Duda, in qualitative terms, "Ukraine today has a much more modern military potential than Russia."
18:21 The United States has provided Ukraine with everything it asked for for its offensive, White House National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said in an interview with CNN. At the same time, he does not agree with the opinion that the situation at the front has reached a dead end: “They are fighting very bravely every day and making progress. This is not a freeze, not a stalemate. So far, everything is not moving as fast as Zelensky would like, but they are achieving some progress."
17:59 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Wagner PMC mercenaries are returning to Russia from Belarus. Lukashenka refused to finance them, realizing that the Russian Federation would not pay for their placement in Belarus.
17:33 The German government may soon decide to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus cruise missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 500 km, the German edition of t-online reports, citing sources.
16:50 Efforts to reopen the grain corridor are ongoing and there is international consensus on a return to this initiative, said EU Foreign and Security Policy Representative Peter Stano.
16:29 British intelligence reports that in Russia the authorities are restricting citizens' access to VPNs in an attempt to increase censorship. In particular, over the past week, many of the most popular VPNs have stopped working in some regions of the Russian Federation. According to intelligence, VPN services are very popular in Russia, despite their ban since 2017. They allow users to access objective international news sources, in particular about the war in Ukraine.
In addition to increasing the number of technical "failures", the Russian state has also launched an information campaign in an attempt to scare citizens with the leakage of personal data when using a VPN.
16:03 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Belarus reported a fire at the Mozyr oil refinery. On August 4, the SBU warned that Russia was preparing a large-scale provocation under a false flag at the Mozyr Oil Refinery to involve Belarus in a full-scale war against Ukraine. DRG from the regular military of the RF Armed Forces and employees of the Russian special services should commit a provocation at the refinery, pretending to be "Ukrainian saboteurs."
15:45 Estonia will provide Ukraine with another package of military assistance, which will include, in particular, handguns and ammunition for them, the country's Ministry of Defense said.
15:37 Representatives of the military-political leadership of Ukraine and the United States held a videoconference meeting on the situation at the front and defense cooperation, Yermak said. According to him, it was "a very substantive and fundamental conversation." Zaluzhny and the commanders of the groupings of troops briefed the American side on the current situation on the front, paying special attention to the offensive actions of the Ukrainian troops in important areas. From the United States, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took part in the meeting.
"The Defense Forces are successful and liberate our land, but the Russians are putting pressure on our defense in places. During a conversation with partners, attention was focused on the key needs of the Defense Forces, as well as the need to strengthen the protection of Ukrainian cities and infrastructure from Russian air attacks," he said. head of the President's Office.
14:58 Active hostilities are underway on all fronts, Russia is losing hundreds of its fighters every day, Anna Malyar said. According to her, the command of the Russian troops is trying to hide the real losses of personnel and burying the bodies in the occupied territories without transporting them to the Russian Federation. Thus, near Melitopol, in an open area, the cremation of the bodies of Russian servicemen is almost continuously carried out, which the occupiers deliver on trucks. Local residents have been smelling the characteristic smell for a long time.
And to the morgue of the Chaplinsky district hospital in the Kherson region, the invaders deliver the dead from the Kherson direction, who are buried in two locations, one of them has an area of up to 100 hectares.
14:19 The occupation administration of the Zaporizhzhya NPP announced that in order to reliably pass the autumn-winter period and maintain the equipment in good condition, it was decided to transfer the reactor plant of block No. 4 to the "cold shutdown" state. In order to meet the steam auxiliary needs of the NPP, the issue of transferring power unit No. 6 to the "hot shutdown" state is being considered.
13:25 As a result of a missile attack on Zaporozhye on the evening of August 9, the church of the Ukrainian Patriarchate was destroyed, which took the brunt of it, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. The blast also damaged 15 high-rise buildings - claims for broken windows and damaged balconies were received from more than 400 apartments. Among the three who died as a result of the strike were two female musicians, aged 19 and 21.
12:52 Erdogan is able to return the grain agreement, but Ukraine is still looking for alternative export routes, Kuleba said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: "We know that Turkish diplomacy is cooperating with Russian. Meanwhile, we are building alternative export routes for wheat and other products without passing across the Black Sea.
12:24 Mandatory evacuation of the population begins in the de-occupied territories of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, the Kupyansky city military administration reported. We are talking about settlements close to the combat zone, Dvurechanskaya village, Petropavlovsk rural, partially Kondrashevsky rural, Kurilovskaya rural and Kupyanskaya urban territorial communities. On the territory of the Kupyansk urban territorial community, mandatory evacuation has been announced for residents of the city of Kupyansk Zaoskolie (the left bank of the Oskol River), the village of Kovsharovka, the city of Kupyansk-Uzlovoi.
12:19 The Russian army fired artillery at Belozerka, Kherson region, wounding six people. The shells hit at the moment when local residents were receiving humanitarian aid, said Alexander Prokudin, head of the OVA.
12:10 The Ukrainian Navy announced temporary corridors for merchant ships going to or from the Black Sea seaports of Ukraine. At the same time, it is emphasized that along all routes the military threat and the danger of mine danger from the Russian Federation remain. The routes will primarily be used to enable the exit of civilian ships that have been in the Ukrainian ports of Chornomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhny since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion. Vessels will be allowed to pass along the routes, the owners or captains of which officially confirm their readiness to sail in the current conditions.
11:51 Ukraine is ready to start negotiations with Russia through an intermediary, but only after the withdrawal of Russian troops, Kuleba said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: "We can negotiate with Russia after the withdrawal of their troops from our lands, but not with Putin. This goal can be achieved through a mixture of war and diplomacy... It is clear to us that we will never be able to see Putin and Zelensky at the same table."
Answering a question about the possibility of starting negotiations before the complete withdrawal of Russian troops, the Foreign Minister said: "It depends on the circumstances. We do not take the Russians at their word, not a single sane person will believe. Before the withdrawal, we would like to be sure that this is serious, not deceit, then to return and attack again."
11:46 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, at least 380 children illegally taken to the Russian Federation have been returned, Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk said in an interview with Radio Liberty.
11:35 The Russian army is not experiencing "shell hunger" and is increasing the number of shelling on the eastern front, said National Guard spokesman Ruslan Muzychuk. So, according to him, over the past month, the total number of attacks on the Kupyansky, Limansky and Bakhmut directions has grown from 6-6.5 to 9 thousand per week. Aviation is also actively used: in recent weeks, more than 50 air attacks have been taking place daily, and sometimes more than 80.
10:56 In the village of Pervomaevka, Kherson region, the occupiers are equipping a new prison for Ukrainians in the building of a local food base, Anna Malyar said. In Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, the Russians, at gunpoint, seized non-residential premises from local entrepreneurs, in which local residents are also being held. And in Vasilievka, the invaders set up a torture room in a student dormitory.
10:50 The court sentenced four accomplices of Medvedchuk, who were preparing a coup d'état, to five to ten years' imprisonment. According to the SBU, among the convicts is a citizen of the Russian Federation, a military intelligence officer by profession, who was in direct contact with the Kremlin and Russian special services. The attackers planned to "synchronize" the coup d'etat with the start of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
According to the investigation, they wanted to seize power through controlled public organizations in Kyiv and other regions, which were supposed to initiate the holding of the so-called "national assembly" in the capital. At this "forum" it was planned to approve a resolution on the "removal from power" of the top military-political leadership of Ukraine. In case of failure, the attackers were going to go to the forceful scenario.
10:39 Ukraine has handed over to the Pentagon a report on the use of US cluster munitions on the battlefield, CNN reports, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official. The transmitted data includes both the number of shells fired and the number of Russian targets destroyed. At the same time, the interlocutor refused to name specific figures.
10:10 Poland plans to send up to 10,000 troops to the border with Belarus: 4,000 of them will directly support the Border Guard Service, the rest will remain in reserve, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said. “We are moving the army closer to the border with Belarus in order to scare off the aggressor so that he does not dare to attack us,” he explained.
10:04 U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine will be relevant regardless of the result of the presidential elections in the country, State Department Speaker Matthew Miller said: "We must secure long-term security agreements that will outlive any administration, any government, both here in the United States and among our allies and partners who have taken on long-term commitments to the security of Ukraine."
09:36 Russian troops in the south are shelling the territories they occupied, as well as their own units, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces Natalya Gumenyuk said. According to her, as part of their maneuvers, they often imitate leaving certain settlements - then they return to them, but before that they fire at them, and local residents are convinced that they were the Defense Forces.
"We see another maneuver - this is the continuation of the use of tactical aviation, which they very often use in the Berislav direction, and send guided aerial bombs with it. Recently, they began to bomb the left bank. That is, they are trying to bomb the territories that they declare as their own, their own units, and then pass it off as the work of the Defense Forces," Gumenyuk said.
09:08 At night, Russia attacked Ukraine with ten Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs from the northeast direction from the Kursk region - seven of them were destroyed, the Air Force command reported.
09:04 On the evening of August 9, Russia launched an attack on Zaporozhye with an Kh-35 missile, the National Police reported.
09:00 In the Donetsk region during the day on August 9, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed (two in Zarechny and one in Chasovoy Yar), four more were injured. There are two wounded in the Heron region, according to the IVA.
08:56 During the night, the Zaporozhye NPP lost power from the main external power transmission line with a voltage of 750 kV, after which the plant had to be switched to the only available backup line of 330 kV. Disabling this line will lead to a blackout at the nuclear power plant, Energoatom said. In the event of such a scenario, the main threat to nuclear and radiation safety is the presence of the 4th power unit in a state of "hot shutdown", which the occupiers use in violation of operating conditions.
08:48 As a result of yesterday's Russian missile attack on Zaporozhye, three people were killed and nine injured, including an 11-month-old child, said the head of the OVA, Yuriy Malashko. Four more people were injured as a result of an enemy strike on Gulyai-Pole.
08:43 The defense forces were successful near Harvest and south-east of Staromayorsky, spokesman of the General Staff Andrey Kovalev said.
08:39 At night, the Russians fired on the village. Kondrashovka, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region, two people were wounded, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also at night, the enemy attacked Kupyansk with a FAB-250 guided bomb - the city council building was damaged. In the morning the enemy shelled Kupyansk again, the house was damaged, there were no reports of casualties.
During the past 24 hours, the Russians massively shelled the settlements of Bogodukhovsky, Kharkovsky, Chuguevsky, Izyumsky and Kupyansky districts using guided bombs and other weapons. Private houses, outbuildings were damaged, fires broke out.
08:27 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 10:
- personnel - about 252,200 (+580) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4278 (+16),
- armored combat vehicles - 8303 (+13),
- artillery systems - 5028 (+15),
- MLRS - 711 (+0),
- air defense systems - 469 (+0),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 313 (+1),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4179 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 1377 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7495 (+16),
- special equipment - 746 (+4).
07:30 Over the past day, 30 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, in the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repulsed attacks by Russian troops in the area north of Sinkovka and northeast of Ivanovka, Kharkiv region, in Bakhmutsky - in the vicinity of Klescheevka and northeast of Druzhba, Donetsk region, in Avdeevsky - in the area of Avdeevka and southeast of Northern Donetsk areas.
In the Maryinka direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the area of Maryinka, Donetsk region. In the Shakhtyorsk direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region, and in the Zaporozhye direction, they undertook unsuccessful offensive operations in the area south of Novodanilovka, Zaporozhye region. Meanwhile, the Defense Forces continue their offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions.
06:52 At night, the Russians attacked the Rivne region with drones. An oil depot in the Dubyno region was destroyed, a fire broke out, people were not injured, said Vitaly Koval, head of the OVA.
05:46 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that at night over the territory of the Kaluga and Moscow regions, as well as the occupied Sevastopol, attempts by Ukraine to carry out UAV attacks were thwarted. Two drones flying in the direction of Moscow were allegedly destroyed by air defense systems, and near Sevastopol, two UAVs were hit, another nine were suppressed by electronic warfare and fell in the Black Sea. There were no casualties or damage.
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