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[Korrespondent] 22:31 Reintegration Minister Irina Vereshchuk called on residents of Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad and Selydove in Donetsk Oblast to evacuate. She explained that the situation in the Pokrovsk direction remains difficult.
22:02 As a result of today's Russian airstrike in Belopolye, Sumy Oblast, one person was killed and three were wounded, including an 11-year-old child, OVA reported. Another person was injured as a result of KAB airstrikes in the Yunakivska community.
19:57 Russians shelled the village of Razliv in the Velikonovoselkovsky community of Donetsk Oblast - one person was killed and one was wounded, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. Another person was killed and one was wounded as a result of the Russian attack on the city of Toretsk, the prosecutor's office reported.
18:30 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has instructed the country's National Security Council to develop a plan for expanded support for Ukraine. The Times writes that the new support for Kiev will likely be comprehensive. In particular, this includes not only military aid, but also "economic, industrial, and diplomatic aid." London has already created a special group that will develop a unified British policy toward Ukraine. It includes representatives of the country's Ministry of Defense and Foreign Ministry.
18:13 On Monday, August 19, due to the heat, power outage schedules will be applied: from 17:00 to 21:00, one phase of outages will be in effect, Ukrenergo reported.
17:54 Russians dropped a KAB on Belopolye in Sumy Oblast - according to preliminary information, one person was killed, one was wounded, OVA reported.
17:16 Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak stated that the church in Ukraine will be deprived of Moscow's influence: "Even since Soviet times, the church in Russia and for Russia has been the territory and ears of their special services. Russia today is a country that destroys churches in Ukraine. For them, there is no God, no faith. When in Ukraine today there are those who are ready to defend the influence of the Moscow church, beat people, threaten them on social networks, having the status of a people's deputy, then this is not normal. And this is not about freedom, but about something else. This should not be done - our society has already passed all the tests for unity. There will be no church schism here. And no threats either."
16:31 Russians shelled Myrnohrad in Donetsk Oblast with artillery throughout the day - two people were killed, one was wounded, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin. He also reported that the curfew has been tightened in Myrnohrad and Selydove: from Monday, August 19, it will be in effect from 15:00 to 11:00.
15:22 Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova denied information from The Washington Post that Russia planned to hold secret talks with Ukraine in Qatar on a partial ceasefire, which were disrupted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in the Kursk region. "Nobody disrupted anything, because there was nothing to disrupt. No direct or indirect negotiations between Russia and the Kiev regime on the security of civilian critical infrastructure facilities have been or are being conducted," Zakharova said.
14:51 Lukashenko said that Belarus has transferred almost a third of its army to the border with Ukraine because there are allegedly more than 120 thousand Ukrainian troops there. According to him, Ukraine believes that "Putin will again attack from the territory of Belarus." "In response, I was forced to transfer almost a third of the army additionally to strengthen what was there," Lukashenko noted.
In turn, the speaker of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Andrei Demchenko called this statement by Lukashenko "a new portion of escalation." According to him, the situation on the border with Belarus remains unchanged, "we are not currently seeing an increase in equipment or personnel of Belarusian units at our border."
12:40 This morning, the Russian army carried out a massive attack in the area of the settlements of Pivnichnoye and Zaliznoye in the Donetsk region. In particular, Russian troops, supported by an armored group of 12 vehicles, tried to break through the positions of the Defense Forces and advance towards Toretsk. The Defense Forces repelled the attack, no positions were lost, the General Staff reported.
12:27 Russian troops are approaching Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast - the enemy is 11 km from the outskirts of the settlement, said the head of the city's military administration, Sergei Dobryak, and called on city residents to evacuate. According to him, 59,980 residents still remain in Pokrovsk. Before the full-scale invasion, about 86 thousand people lived in the Pokrovsk community. Dobryak added that the humanitarian situation in Pokrovsk is normal, but due to the proximity of the front, the threat of shelling is growing.
11:53 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russians attacked a substation twice with a drone - a fire started, and as a result of the repeated shelling, a rescuer was injured, the Ministry of Energy reported.
11:09 The General Staff reported that the Defense Forces struck the Kavkaz plant in the Rostov region on the night of August 18 - oil and oil products were stored there, which were supplied, among other things, for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces. At least two fires were recorded on the territory of the facility, detailed information is being clarified.
09:48 In the morning, the Russian army attacked Stepanivka in the Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. Over the previous day, two people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
09:40 In Donetsk Oblast, two people were killed as a result of Russian shelling on August 17 - in Mirnohrad and Toretsk. Another eight people in the oblast were injured in the past 24 hours, four of them in Mirnohrad, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
09:33 At night, Russia used 16 air attack weapons to attack Ukraine: one Iskander-M ballistic missile, two KN-23 ballistic missiles, two Kh-59 guided air missiles, three cruise missiles (type to be specified), and eight Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs, the Air Force reported. All drones were destroyed, as well as two KN-23 ballistic missiles and three cruise missiles of an unspecified type. Aerial targets were destroyed within the Kyiv, Sumy and Poltava regions. The remaining missiles, not included in the statistics of those shot down, did not reach their targets.
08:12 This morning, at about 05:00, Russia attacked Kiev with ballistics. This is already the third ballistic shelling of the capital in August with a clear interval of six days between each attack, said the head of the KGVA, Sergei Popko. According to him, the strike was almost identical to the two previous ones - most likely, the enemy used North Korean ballistic missiles of the KN-23 type. All of them were shot down as they approached the capital. In addition, almost simultaneously with the ballistics, several attack UAVs were approaching Kiev - they were also destroyed outside the city.
Two hours after the attempt to carry out a ballistic strike, at about 07:00, the enemy attacked Kyiv with cruise missiles - preliminarily, Iskander-K. After lengthy complex maneuvers across several regions, the missiles attempted to hit targets from the southern direction, but all were destroyed. At present, there are no destructions or casualties in Kyiv.
07:56 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 18:
- personnel - about 599,350 (+1170) people,
- tanks - 8508 (+7),
- combat armored vehicles - 16,480 (+7),
- artillery systems - 17,056 (+71),
- MLRS - 1161 (+1),
- air defense systems - 923 (+0),
- aircraft - 367 (+0),
- helicopters - 328 (+0),
- Operational-tactical level UAVs - 13,752 (+38),
- cruise missiles - 2432 (+0),
- ships/boats - 28 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 22,992 (+79),
- special equipment - 2846 (+2).
07:21 Drones attacked an oil depot in Rostov Oblast, Governor Vasily Golubev reported. According to him, air defense forces allegedly repelled the UAV attack, but as a result of debris falling on the territory of industrial warehouses in Proletarsk, diesel fuel caught fire. Later, the oil depot was attacked by a UAV again, there were no casualties. The Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of five UAVs overnight, two of which were over Belgorod Oblast, one over Kursk, and two over Rostov Oblast.
01:13 The IAEA said nuclear safety at the occupied Zaporizhia NPP had deteriorated following a drone attack on August 17. The drone exploded near cooling ponds and just 100 metres from a critical power line supplying the plant. There were no casualties or damage to equipment. Agency Director Rafael Grossi expressed "serious concern" and called on "the parties" to strictly adhere to nuclear safety principles.
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