Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:50 The Biden administration on Thursday, August 10, will publish a request to Congress for additional funding for assistance to Ukraine against the backdrop of the completion of the next budget year, writes Politico.
22:48 Ukraine needs significantly more air defense systems than it currently has to cover the entire territory, Zelensky said in an evening video message: "Step by step, we are turning this" much more "into the specific capabilities of our Air Force, our anti-aircraft gunners, our mobile fire brigades. We are also preparing more specifics on modern fighters for our soldiers: I have no doubt that we will have F-16s in the sky."
21:54 Doctors managed to resuscitate a man in Zaporozhye, who was considered dead after a Russian strike, Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said. At the moment, two dead and seven injured are known.
21:45 The enemy has almost completely captured the village of Novoselovskoye in the Svatovsky direction, according to the Ukrainian military Telegram channel Deep State. This settlement is located along the highway towards Kupyansk, Kharkov region. Officially, Kyiv does not confirm this information, but admits that the enemy is trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and reach Kupyansk. For more details, see Breakthrough Fist .
21:11 The Russians launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye, according to preliminary information, by Iskander. The rocket hit the territory of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul of the OCU, it is known about three dead and five wounded. As a result of the strike, the church building was destroyed, residential buildings and shops were damaged, the President's Office reported.
19:38 The government adopted a resolution regulating the issues of fair monthly additional payments for military personnel, law enforcement officers and rescuers, Shmyhal said. So, during the martial law, the amount of additional payments will be 30 thousand hryvnia per month. For persons exercising operational control of military units and subdivisions at a distance, additional payments may amount to 50,000 hryvnias. And for those who are directly involved in hostilities - 100 thousand.
Monthly surcharges for conscripts and cadets are also set in the amount of 6,000 and 2,350 hryvnias, respectively.
19:21 The plant in Sergiev Posad, where there was a powerful explosion, worked hard for the Russian army. Read more in the material Explosion near Moscow .
18:52 Germany has handed over two more promised Patriot launchers to Ukraine , the country's government has announced.
18:50 The Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant, located in the Moscow region, where the explosion occurred today, participated in the development of a new generation stealth bomber, the Russian edition of the Agency reports. The journalists analyzed the public procurement data and refuted the version of the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov, who said that the plant had long been engaged in the production of pyrotechnics. The agency claims that the company not only continues to supply optics to the Russian security forces, but since 2019 has been participating in the development of the new-generation Russian strategic bomber-missile carrier Messenger.
18:24 Poland, Lithuania and Latvia may close the railway connection with Belarus in case of further provocations, the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
17:57 Podolyak reminded critics of the Ukrainian counteroffensive that quite recently the Russian army was quite seriously called "the second army in the world", they were afraid of it and did not even imagine that it was possible to effectively fight against it. "Therefore, in order to finally destroy another myth, which yesterday was afraid to even think about, everyone needs to be patient and closely monitor the quality work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which in any case will complete the work to a mandatory and fair finale. After the war in Ukraine, Russia will cease to exist as a military threat. At least for Ukraine and Europe. In the meantime, offensive operations continue," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Administration said.
17:23 UAE President Mohammed bin Zeid Al Nahyan would like to organize a meeting between Putin and Zelensky at the UN climate conference to be held in November-December in Dubai, the Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour writes. According to journalists, the UAE leader discussed this idea with the Pope, and he took it positively, deciding to act together with Al Nahyan. The publication also notes that the UAE President briefed Biden on the plan. At the same time, there is no official information that Putin and Zelensky will take part in this conference at all.
16:45 The British newspaper The Times writes about the elite Ukrainian battalion Shaman, which is preparing to liquidate high-ranking Russian officers. According to the publication, they have been carrying out similar raids on infrastructure facilities behind enemy lines for more than a year, and now they have received a new task. The fighters have already carried out more than ten such operations over the past six months, but they do not talk about their goals.
16:28 Poland will send 2,000 troops to the border with Belarus - twice as many as the Border Service requested, Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wonsik said.
15:13 The German Defense Ministry confirmed that the Rheinmetall concern will prepare additional armored vehicles for shipment to Ukraine - outside contracts with the German government. We are talking about 25 Leopard 1 A5 tanks, five armored recovery vehicles and two armored training vehicles.
14:52 Latvia joined the security guarantees for Ukraine presented at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said. Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, Portugal and Romania have already joined these guarantees.
13:46 The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the parliaments and governments of foreign states, international organizations regarding the intentions of the Russian Federation to hold illegal elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
The Rada, in particular, calls on the international community not to recognize the legitimacy of any "elections" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as to assist in the criminal prosecution of those who took part in organizing such "voting". In addition, the parliament calls to recognize that the illegal actions of the Russian Federation once again "confirm the impossibility of holding peace talks before the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces from the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine."
The Rada also asks residents of the temporarily occupied territories to avoid participating in illegal elections, and international structures not to send observers.
13:43 The Department of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) reported that this morning the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the command post of the Russian army in Nova Kakhovka.
13:38 The Russians hit a kindergarten in Kherson from artillery, a mechanic was wounded. In addition, as the OVA reported, due to Russian shelling, six settlements of the Belozersky community were left without electricity - the enemy damaged the energy facility.
13:31 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief in a special format: "The narrowest circle of people and maximum attention to one topic - our offensive. In-depth analysis of the current situation, planning future steps, providing troops with everything necessary, analyzing enemy actions. Reports : commander-in-chief Zaluzhny, commanders Syrsky and Tarnavsky, head of the GUR Budanov.
13:05 Shoigu said that the threats to Russia's military security in the west and north-west have increased many times over, "a destabilizing factor" is the entry of Finland (and, in the future, Sweden) into NATO. Also, the risks are allegedly associated with the militarization of Poland, "which has become the main instrument of the US anti-Russian policy." According to Shoigu, with the creation of the Leningrad and Moscow military districts, Russia will strengthen the groupings of troops on its western borders.
The Russian Defense Minister also said that the willingness of the West to invest in Ukraine a significant part of the available resources in order to turn the tide on the battlefield "creates serious risks of escalating the conflict." And Warsaw, according to him, allegedly plans to create "a Polish-Ukrainian connection to ensure the security of Western Ukraine, and in fact - for the subsequent occupation of this territory."
12:34 Erdogan said he intends to restart the grain deal in an expanded format, and called on Western countries to help turn the Black Sea Initiative "into the basis of peace between Russia and Ukraine." According to the Turkish president, Putin listed him the conditions of the Russian Federation for the resumption of the deal, and now the solution of the issue depends on whether "the Western countries will fulfill their promises."
"Unfortunately, in the previous period, the principle of loyalty was not respected. No diplomatic steps were taken to turn the positive atmosphere created by the Black Sea Initiative into a ceasefire and then permanent peace," Erdogan said.
12:28 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that on August 8, Ukrainian forces allegedly made a limited raid across the Dnieper River and landed on the left bank of the Kherson region. Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that the Armed Forces and the General Staff do not confirm this information at the moment. "We ask and once again appeal to everyone - to trust only official sources," she stressed.
11:40 In the East, the main direction of the Russian offensive remains Kupyanskoe - here the enemy has formed an offensive grouping and is trying to move forward, but to no avail, Anna Malyar said. According to her, the operational situation is difficult, but controllable. The defense forces hold back the enemy offensive. The enemy has been conducting unsuccessful offensive operations in the Sinkovka region of the Kharkov region for several days. His goal in the Kupyansk direction is to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops and go directly to Kupyansk.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue offensive operations on the southern flank around Bakhmut, and consolidate on the achieved lines. The enemy is making constant assaults to restore the lost position in the vicinity of Kleshcheevka and in the Zaitsevo region.
In the South, the Defense Forces continue their offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions. In the direction of Urozhaynoye, Priyutnoye and Verbovoye, they had partial success, and they are gaining a foothold on the achieved lines. The enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the area of ​​Novokalinovo, Severnoye, Novomikhailovka and Staromayorskoye.
Both in the East and in the South, the enemy is now suffering significant losses in personnel, weapons and equipment. During these days, the defense forces have significantly reduced the offensive and defensive potential of the enemy and do not allow him to realize his plans, Malyar added.
11:29 In Sergiev Posad, near Moscow, there was a powerful explosion at an optical-mechanical plant, which produces, among other things, sights for weapons. After the explosion, a total evacuation was announced in the city, local authorities report. Windows were shattered in many buildings by the blast. The emergency services reported that the explosion occurred due to a violation of the technological process.
11:25 Ukrainian Air Force relocates Su-24 bombers every 24 hours, which are carriers of long-range cruise missiles Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG. This allows them to be protected from Russian missile attacks, the latest of which are aimed specifically at airfields, such as Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytsky region, writes Bild. The publication also notes that Ukraine has restored the entire network of Soviet-era airfields and equipped new ones. In addition, secret runways on highways are used. Operational airfields and missile storage sites are protected by IRIS-T and Patriot air defense systems.
10:38 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, 65 criminal proceedings have been investigated against clergy, including against the bishops of the UOC-MP, the SBU reported. The court has already delivered 15 guilty verdicts, and the citizenship of Ukraine has also been terminated for 19 clergymen of the UOC-MP who have Russian passports. In addition, more than 250 clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church are banned from entering Ukraine, including three clergymen of the UOC-MP who have been revoked citizenship of Ukraine.
10:21 Crimean publics report explosions in the Dzhankoy district, and shortly before that, the Crimean bridge was blocked. The "Governor" of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that in the area of ​​the Sevastopol Bay, the fleet is conducting a training of RCBZ crews, "the smell is unpleasant, but it is absolutely safe, everything is calm in the city."
09:36 After Ukrainian attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea, Russia started having problems with grain exports, writes Reuters. In particular, the cost of transporting Russian wheat is growing, and the cost of insuring ships bound for Russian Black Sea ports has also increased in recent days. Also, the risks in the Black Sea increase the cost of freight for Moscow and push it to cooperate with less reliable shipping operators.
09:02 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured, and it was also possible to establish information about two more dead and 11 wounded as a result of a strike on Pokrovsk on August 7, the OVA reported.
In the Kherson region, two people were injured per day, in the Kharkiv region - three, including a 14-year-old child. In the Zaporozhye region, one person was injured, according to the IVA.
08:53 In the morning, the Ukrainian military shot down another Russian helicopter, its type is being established, the General Staff said.
08:29 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 9:
- personnel - about 251,620 (+820) people liquidated,
- tanks - 4262 (+8),
- armored combat vehicles - 8290 (+12),
- artillery systems - 5013 (+17),
- MLRS - 711 (+2),
- air defense systems - 469 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 312 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4175 (+17),
- cruise missiles - 1377 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 7479 (+19),
- special equipment - 742 (+5).
08:13 On Tuesday, August 8, the enemy fired from artillery with. Kutsurub of the Kutsurub community of the Nikolaev district: two teenagers aged 13 and 16 were injured, residential buildings were damaged, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
07:48 Since the evening, the Russians have been shelling Nikopol and the Marganets community of the Dnipropetrovsk region three times from heavy artillery. One person died, three were injured. The church, five private houses, outbuildings, power lines were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
07:36 Over the past day, more than 30 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 in the Sinkovka area of ​​​​the Kharkiv region, in the Bakhmutsky direction - in the vicinity of Klescheevka and in the Zaitsevo region of the Donetsk region, in Avdeevsky - in the Novokalinovo, Avdeevka and Northern Donetsk regions.
In the Maryinka direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the area of ​​Maryinka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region. In the Shakhtyorsky direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Staromayorsky district of the Donetsk region. At the same time, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions.
According to the General Staff, the number of casualties in Russian military units has increased significantly, in particular, in the Svatovsko-Kremenskoye direction. Medical workers from the Russian Federation arrived in Svatovo, Luhansk region. In the period from August 1 to August 7, about 500 Russian soldiers with fire wounds were sent from this direction to the Belgorod hospital. And to hide the real number of casualties, the dead are sent to Rostov-on-Don.
04:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that at night an attempt by Ukraine to carry out an attack by drones was allegedly suppressed over the Moscow region, air defense destroyed two UAVs, there were no casualties or damage.
00:15 Biden gave the green light to the start of training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, but Denmark and the Netherlands are leading the process, Pentagon Deputy Speaker Sabrina Singh said. According to her, as of now, there are no official statements from the American side regarding the details of the upcoming training.