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22:14 Russia has spent 60% of its time and resources on building the first line of defense and only 20% each on building the second and third lines, Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria operational-strategic grouping, said in an interview with The Observer. According to him, the Kremlin did not expect the Ukrainian Armed Forces to break through the first line. "Now we are between the first and second lines of defense, we are completing the destruction of enemy units that provide cover for the withdrawal of Russian troops behind the second line of defense," the general said.
20:21 The Russians fired at Vuhledar in the Donetsk region, residential buildings were in the epicenter. As a result of an explosion in one of the high-rise buildings, two people were killed, two more were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
19:23 During the day, the enemy fired five times at the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region from heavy artillery, and also attacked with a drone. Four people were injured, an infrastructure facility, a shop, a utility company, and 14 private houses were damaged, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said.
18:57 The Russians fired at Kramatorsk from the MLRS - the shells hit the apartment of the high-rise building, the territory near the cemetery and damaged the roadbed. The rocket that hit the residential building did not explode, people were not injured, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA.
16:59 Aircraft missiles AMRAAM, which the United States is preparing to supply to Ukraine, are capable of covering a distance of 160-180 km - this is "more than enough to reach Russian aircraft without entering the enemy air defense strike zone," Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat said.
15:16 Russians fired from mortars of Seredina-Buda of the Shostka district of the Sumy region. The shells hit the official car of Sumyoblenergo, two employees were injured. A power line, two institutions and a local enterprise were also damaged, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
14:38 The Russians hit Odradokamenka, Beryslavsky district, Kherson region, from aviation with guided bombs, hit private houses. One person died, two were injured, said Alexander Prokudin, head of the OVA.
13:21 In the south, seven boats of Russian saboteurs were destroyed in a day, said the speaker of the Defense Forces of the South, Natalya Gumenyuk: "Each time, trying to find out what is happening on the Left Bank, the enemy sends out his sabotage and reconnaissance groups on boats. Over the past day, minus seven such boats occupier. That is, whenever an enemy group leaves for a task, it never returns."
According to Gumenyuk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are pushing the enemy back on the left bank of the Kherson region: “The enemy’s attempts to come closer to hit the Right Bank have actually stopped. Because, trying to move there, they endanger themselves. our counter-battery fight."
10:37 Russians shelled Kherson at night: shells hit near residential buildings, two people were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
08:50 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported, citing Budanov's information, that Russia deployed part of the newly created "reserve army" (25th Combined Arms Army) to enable units that are now on the front line in the Luhansk region to redeploy to protect against the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south of Ukraine. According to ISW analysts, the 25th combined-arms army is unlikely to be combat-ready, given its hasty deployment.
ISW also reported that the Russian military was frustrated with the level of their counter-battery fighting near Urozhaynoye and along the Novomayorskoye-Novodonetskoye-Kermenchik line, and the soldiers defending in the area were in poor physical and psychological condition.
08:42 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in the village of Shevchenko), three more were injured. In the Kherson region, two people died and two were injured, according to the IVA.
08:39 The Russians over the past day fired at the settlements of Kharkov, Chuguevsky, Kupyansky and Izyumsky districts of the Kharkov region. One person died as a result of shelling. Volchanskie Khutor of the Chuguevsky district, another one was wounded in Volchansk, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:31 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 2:
- personnel - about 264,060 (+570) people,
- tanks - 4471 (+12),
- armored combat vehicles - 8637 (+24),
- artillery systems - 5560 (+30),
- MLRS - 736 (+1),
- air defense systems - 501 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4433 (+12),
- cruise missiles - 1447 (+2),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 8043 (+34),
- special equipment - 835 (+4).
07:23 Over the past day, 45 clashes have occurred at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack in the area of ​​​​Novoselovsky, Luhansk region, as well as Kurdyumovka, Severny and Krasnogorovka, Donetsk region.
In the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region, families who refused to send their children to school are visited by representatives of the regional departments of education, accompanied by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, and they conduct "preventive talks" about compulsory secondary education in accordance with the norms of Russian legislation. Parents are issued protocols on improper performance of parental duties, and if three such protocols are drawn up, they are threatened with deprivation of parental rights and transfer of children to orphanages in the territory of the Russian Federation.
02:47 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that Ukraine tried to attack the Crimean bridge with semi-submersible unmanned boats - all three boats were allegedly destroyed.
01:25 The United States will send armor-piercing ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine for the first time, Reuters reports citing sources. According to the agency, such shells will be included in a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, which should be announced next week. The depleted uranium projectiles can be used with the help of American Abrams tanks, the first ten of which Ukraine should receive in the coming weeks.
One of the officials told reporters that the cost of the future package, which will include shells, will be from 240 to 375 million dollars, depending on what else is included in it.