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2024-08-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 28, 2024

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] 19:31 The number of victims as a result of the enemy strike on Kupyansk has increased to 12, reported the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov.

19:09 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk explained why Poland does not shoot down drones and missiles flying into its territory: "Often, it is the fractions of a second that make it impossible to check whether it is a civilian object or whether it is a lost plane."

19:00 NATO countries will increase aid to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said following a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council. "Minister Umerov briefed on Russia's latest air attacks, the combat situation in Donbas and the goals of the Kursk operation. He thanked the allies for their recent pledges of aid and the F-16s that are in action," the NATO diplomat told reporters.

18:52 As a result of today's enemy attack on Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, 11 people were injured, including two police officers, the prosecutor's office reported. A hotel, residential buildings, outbuildings, cars, shops, administrative buildings and other civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. According to preliminary data, Russian troops struck the city with a FAB-500.

18:45 Russians have installed the Pantsir-S1 air defense system on the Crimean Bridge, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported and showed a photo:

Russians Install Pantsir-S1 Air Defense System on Crimean Bridge / Crimean Wind

17:57 The number of casualties as a result of today's Russian KAB strike on the center of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region has increased to eight, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.

17:38 Lithuania has transferred a new package of military aid to Ukraine, which includes, in particular, loaders, anti-drone systems and folding beds for the military, the country's Defense Ministry reported.

17:01 Russians struck the center of Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region with a KAB - three people are known to have been injured, the city administration building was damaged, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.

16:49 Ukraine has for the first time announced suspicion of war crimes against a foreign general, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. We are talking about an Iranian citizen - the head of a group of Iranian instructors who not only trained Russian military personnel to use drones, but also helped them use them against civilian targets in Ukraine. If the suspect ends up in a country with which Ukraine has diplomatic relations, that country will be obliged to detain him. According to the investigation, in 2022, Iran transferred at least 1,500 drones to the Russians, which were used for numerous attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure and civilians.

16:32 In Kryvyi Rih, the number of victims as a result of today's Russian attack has increased to nine, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. The blast wave and debris damaged more than 230 cars, a service station, administrative buildings, and a vocational school.

15:58 In Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, banks will be open until the end of the week, and from Monday, September 2, only ATMs will remain, said OVA head Vadim Filashkin. There are still 38 thousand people and about 1900 children left in the city. Filashkin emphasized that they must all be evacuated.

15:30 The Verkhovna Rada has agreed to increase the military tax to 5% and introduce it for sole proprietors. The head of the parliamentary finance committee, Danylo Getmantsev, reported that the military tax will be directed through a special fund exclusively to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

15:09 Not only Great Britain but also France supports permission for long-range strikes against Russia, but the United States and Germany are against it, as they are concerned about the risk of escalation, writes the Financial Times. According to the newspaper, London has been arguing to Washington for several months that Ukraine should be given this permission, and earlier this summer sent a request to Washington and Paris. However, the British government admits that such a contentious issue requires consensus among Western allies.

14:31 The idea of shooting down Russian missiles over Ukrainian territory is met with skepticism in NATO countries, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamisz said: "No country will make such decisions on its own. I have not seen anyone in NATO who supports making such a decision." The minister noted that he "understands President Zelensky," but "our role is to make decisions in accordance with the interests of the Polish state."

14:15 There is not a single hydroelectric power station in Ukraine that has not yet been attacked by Russia, said Igor Sirota, CEO of Ukrhydroenergo. According to him, more than 130 missile strikes have been carried out on hydroelectric power station generation. Ukrainian hydroelectric power stations have lost about 40% of their generation as a result of the attacks, and thermal power stations - more than 80%.

14:02 The BBC Russian Service calculated that drones have attacked oil refineries in Russia at least 64 times since the beginning of the year. Journalists noted that at the beginning of the year, the attacks occurred mainly on oil refineries that were important for the domestic market, but the situation changed in the spring: strikes were carried out on factories producing products for military equipment. It is still unclear how exactly such large-scale fires will affect production in the Russian Federation and the prices of oil products.

13:48 Russian publics report a fire at the Ryazan State District Power Plant. Before that, according to eyewitnesses, an explosion thundered there. Now the thermal power plant is engulfed in smoke, there are no official reports.

13:06 In Krivoy Rog, the number of victims as a result of today's Russian attack has increased to eight, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak. A garage cooperative and 12 cars were damaged, and windows in a hotel were broken.

12:57 The Russian Federation's Unified Dispatch Service reported that the "object" in the city of Kotelnich in the Kirov region was attacked by five drones, the fire has already been localized, there are no casualties. At the same time, the governor previously stated that there was allegedly no fire as a result of the attack on the oil storage tank. Russian publics noted that Ukrainian drones attacked the Kirov region for the first time.

12:45 Peskov once again stated that there are no prerequisites for negotiations on Ukraine at the moment. He also believes that the countries of the "collective West" are already directly involved in the war in Ukraine, and "forays by the Ukrainian Armed Forces" like the invasion of the Kursk region "escalate tensions to the limit" and are a reason for "concern about the possibility of a global conflict."

12:22 The Atlas oil depot in the Rostov region was hit by Ukrainian-made attack UAVs as part of a joint operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate and the Special Operations Forces, Ukrainian media write, citing intelligence sources. According to eyewitnesses, the fire is still raging in the depot's tanks.

11:53 In Kiev, military medical commissions will work around the clock. As reported by the Kyiv City Military Administration, the Capital Defense Council has reorganized the work of mobilization centers - in particular, the composition of the centers and the operating mode have been clarified "to ensure round-the-clock medical examinations and guaranteed implementation of mobilization measures."

11:26 Russians have attacked Krivoy Rog again, as of now there are three victims, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. Infrastructure and cars were damaged in the city.

11:02 The Telegraph writes that London supports Ukraine being given permission to strike targets in Russia with Storm Shadow missiles, but is not publicly calling for this because it fears worsening relations with the US. According to the publication, Prime Minister Keir Starmer does not want to "provoke a scandal" and is taking a "consultative approach" to negotiations with Washington after diplomatic scandals under the previous Conservative government.

10:55 Russians dropped an aerial bomb on the village of Izmailovka in the Pokrovsky district of Donetsk region - as a result of the bomb hitting a house, an entire family of four people died, including a 17-year-old teenager, the prosecutor's office reported.

10:46 A UAV attacked a storage tank for petroleum products in the city of Kotelnich in the Kirov region; there were no casualties or fire, said Governor Alexander Sokolov.

09:49 In Donetsk region on August 27, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were wounded: two in Selidovo and one in Konstantinovka, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.

09:24 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed and 14 were injured, OVA reported.

08:56 Late in the evening of August 27, Russians struck the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region with a Tornado MLRS - 12 people were injured, including five children, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. He also said that the number of victims as a result of yesterday's Russian strike on the city of Bogodukhov has increased to eight, one person died. Another person was injured in the village of Pyatigorskoye in the Izyum district, the villages of Kazachya Lopan and Tsirkuny in the Kharkiv district.

08:47 The Wall Street Journal Nova reports, citing new US intelligence data, that since Ukraine began receiving ATACMS missiles, Russia has moved 90% of its aircraft to military bases outside the range of these missiles. According to the publication, despite Ukraine’s increased calls for the US to lift the ban on the use of ATACMS in Russia and the heaviest shelling of the war this week, the Biden administration has no plans to change its position.

08:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has counted 245 military facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation that Ukraine could hit using long-range Western weapons. However, only 16 of these facilities (6.5%) are air bases. In this way, analysts responded to reports in the Western media that the redeployment of Russian combat aircraft from airfields located within the ATACMS radius of action allegedly reduces the validity or importance of the Ukrainian request.

ISW analysts emphasize that such a redeployment of aircraft does not in any way diminish the importance of the Ukrainian request from the United States to use long-range weapons on Russian territory, since the ATACMS radius of action includes many other military and paramilitary facilities.

08:19 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 28:

personnel - about 611,190 (+1090) people,

tanks - 8568 (+5),

combat armored vehicles - 16,681 (+14),

artillery systems - 17,522 (+27),

MLRS - 1174 (+1),

air defense systems - 938 (+1),

aircraft - 368 (+1),

helicopters - 328 (+0),

Operational-tactical level UAVs - 14,348 (+94),

cruise missiles - 2553 (+6),

ships/boats - 28 (+0),

submarines - 1 (+0),

automotive equipment and tank trucks - 23,654 (+41),

special equipment - 2950 (+6).

07:52 The death toll from the Russian strike on a hotel in Krivoy Rog on the night of August 27 has risen to four - another body was found under the rubble, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Serhiy Lysak.

07:41 Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState reports that the Russian army has occupied Memrik and Kalinovo in the Pokrovsk direction, and has also advanced in Novogrodovka, Konstantinovka, near Mikhailovka, Lesovka and Vodyanoye.

07:35 In the Voronezh region, UAVs attacked an ammunition depot at night. The governor reported that after the drone attack, a fire broke out "near explosive objects." According to local residents, the UAVs attacked an ammunition depot in the village of Malaya Mezhenka. Residents of this village and the village of Evstratovka were first evacuated and later allowed to return home.

In addition, in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region, after a night attack by drones, a fire broke out at the Atlas Rosrezerv oil storage facility, publics write. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that during the night, air defense forces shot down eight drones over the Voronezh region and four more over the Rostov region.

07:28 Air defense unit fighters of the 28th separate separate brigade reported that they shot down a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Kramatorsk direction; the fate of the crew is still unknown.

00:27 The head of the Starodubsky district of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, Alexander Podolny, was wounded during a UAV attack on the village of Kurkovichi, reported Governor Alexander Bogomaz.

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