Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
22:10 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is preparing to visit Russia to meet with Putin to discuss a potential agreement on the supply of arms to Moscow. About. what is known about the visit - in the material What Putin has in mind.
21:52 OSINT-analysts of GeoConfirmed have established the place of detonation of the Russian drone in Romania - a point in the field with coordinates 45.328864, 28.803601. Less than 1.5 km from this place is the Romanian border village of Plauru.
21:38 Germany handed over to Ukraine another package of military assistance, which included, in particular, 10,080 ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft guns, more than 8.5 million rounds of ammunition, 27,000 40-mm ammunition, the Biber armored bridge layer, 32 Zetro trucks.
21:29 Washington calls on the DPRK to stop negotiations with Russia on weapons and to comply with its public commitment not to supply or sell weapons to Russia, State Department Deputy Speaker Vedant Patel said. "Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to North Korea to try to persuade Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia. And we have information that Kim Jong-un expects these negotiations to succeed," Patel added.
19:24 The Russians attacked Nikopol from a drone - an infrastructure facility, an educational institution, a warehouse, a private enterprise, and a residential building were damaged. People were not injured, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
19:20 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis claims that there were no drones on the territory of his country: “I can tell you that there was no part, no drone, no part of any device that would end up in Romania ... We are implementing full control over our national space, we checked absolutely everything, and I can reassure the population: nothing got into Romania."
19:12 The Cuban authorities announced the disclosure of a criminal network for human trafficking, whose participants forced Cuban citizens to fight on the side of Russia in Ukraine. Read more in the article How Russia recruits mercenaries .
18:38 NSDC Secretary Aleksey Danilov reproached NATO countries for ignoring Russian strikes on their territory: "When Iranian and Russian shaheeds accidentally or not accidentally flew into Romanian territory and exploded there, NATO calmly watches all this and says: well, not "It was like that. Let it not happen. That way you can play to the point that you will boil, and you will say that it is cold. These are very dangerous examples."
He also accused Western politicians of being afraid of Russia: "With your poached eggs, you will cause autocratic regimes to seize power all over the world."
18:10 Putin said that "Western curators put an ethnic Jew at the head of modern Ukraine and thus cover up the glorification of Nazism."
17:44 For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Armenia has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Radio Liberty reports. What kind of assistance and to what extent it is still unknown. Yerevan should make an official announcement soon.
17:02 The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court satisfied the claims of the Ministry of Justice against the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian group of companies Volga-Dnepr and recovered their assets - aircraft engines for aircrafts of the Academy of Sciences Ruslan - to the state's income, the Prosecutor General's Office said.
The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation used AN Ruslan aircraft in a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These aircraft transported military equipment, delivered military cargo and dual-use goods from other countries to the territory of Russia.
16:51 Ex-head of the Security Service Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told The Economist that in 2015 a department was created in the SBU to eliminate collaborators. We are talking about the fifth department of counterintelligence of the SBU, which acted as a sabotage group in response to Russian aggression. She is credited with the murder of key pro-Russian commanders in the Donbas - Givi, Motorola, Alexander Zakharchenko. The publication's sources say the Fifth Directorate was "the most efficient" for such tasks, as the budget of the SBU is five times the budget of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
16:33 The government allowed combat medics to transfuse blood at the pre-hospital stage. Thus, not only people with medical education, but also military personnel who have undergone appropriate training will be able to transfuse blood. For this, the Ministry of Health is expanding a special training program.
15:42 The Ministry of Defense has changed the list of diseases to assess fitness for military service. The Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explained why they did it and where they will serve with limited fit. More details - in the material Diseases with which they will be taken into the army .
14:55 The Russians fired mortars at Ivanovka in the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region, two people were injured, the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin, said.
14:51 Damage to the environment as a result of undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Russians is about $ 1.5 billion, said the first deputy head of the State Environmental Inspectorate Dmitry Zaruba. According to him, the main problem for the assessment is that the inspectors cannot now reach all the territories. Final calculations will be possible after collecting all the information.
14:34 The German arms company Diehl Defense plans to significantly increase the production of IRIS-T air defense systems and missiles for them against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. In 2025, the company plans to produce at least eight air defense systems, while this year it was planned to produce three or four.
14:18 Erdogan expressed hope that "good results" will be achieved in the near future on the renewal of the grain agreement, which will "justify expectations." According to him, Russia has two special requests: the connection of the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT system, as well as insurance of ships used in transportation.
Erdogan noted that Turkey is in close contact with the UN on the renewal of the grain agreement, so he will discuss this issue with Secretary General António Guterres in New York. "Guterres proposed not a direct SWIFT, as the Russians wanted, but an intermediate mechanism that would result from the SWIFT transaction," Erdogan added.
14:12 Zelensky said that he had met with the military in the Bakhmut direction: "Very significant results for Ukraine: our movement forward, the destruction of the occupiers. Together with General Syrsky, we talked with commanders, with soldiers. Additional questions for the Headquarters. Awarded the best soldiers."
13:23 Zelensky signed a law on changing the administrative-territorial structure of Crimea, the main goal of which is to prepare the ground for the de-occupation of the peninsula. The document instructs the government to determine the territories and administrative centers of territorial communities in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within a month, and within three months to create a regional state administration of new districts and submit a bill to the parliament on the specifics of restoring public authority in Crimea after the de-occupation.
13:07 Erdogan said that there are no prospects for achieving peace in Ukraine on the horizon.
12:58 Germany handed over to Ukraine the first batch of new ammunition for Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. The department emphasized that the construction of a production line for the manufacture of these ammunition was successfully completed in an ambitious time frame. In total, under the contract, Ukraine will receive 300,000 ammunition, of which 150,000 are armor-piercing, the remaining 150,000 are high-explosive incendiary.
12:05 Corruption in Ukraine slows down the supply of weapons from the West, said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda: “This is a very important reason. Imagine that voters in one state or another see that very visible corruption scandals are taking place in the country to which aid is directed. This is a huge blow to the reputation of this state."
11:11 Anna Malyar said that "an offensive is a long process, and a war is a long one": "Now we see that our offensive is underway. For example, in one place we passed certain lines, in another - the first line of defense. We move on "But a person who simply reads the news does not see this, does not feel it. It seems to him that everything seems to be going on for a long time. In fact, this is a very dynamic, active process, and, believe me, it does not seem so to warring people."
The Deputy Minister of Defense stressed that the command has plans and an understanding of what to do next, and the military is doing their job efficiently.
10:39 The New York Times writes, citing sources, that Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who was detained after Prigozhin's rebellion, was released from custody. According to the publication, this happened three days after the death of the head of PMC Wagner on August 23. The general allegedly retained his rank, but no longer has "career prospects."
09:58 The security service blew up the "head of the LPR customs" Yuri Afanasyevsky, Babel reports, citing sources in the SBU. The explosion occurred at Afanasevsky's house. Now he is in intensive care in a serious condition with numerous shrapnel wounds. The SBU noted that Afanasyevsky is a major general and an agent of the FSB, who became a "financier" of the leader of the "LPR" Pasechnik - he laundered money for the armed formations that fought against Ukraine.
09:04 The Cuban Foreign Ministry said that Russia is recruiting Cuban citizens for the war against Ukraine. First of all, recruiters targeted Cubans living in Russia, but cases of recruitment of mercenaries were also revealed on the island itself. Havana claims that attempts of this kind were neutralized, and criminal cases were opened against those involved in this activity.
"The enemies of Cuba are spreading false information aimed at tarnishing the image of the country and presenting it as an accomplice in these actions, which we strongly reject ... Cuba is not participating in the war in Ukraine," the statement said.
08:39 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were injured - in Avdeevka and Toretsk. One child was wounded in the Kherson region. In the Zaporozhye region, one person died during the shelling of Malaya Tokmachka, according to the IVA.
08:32 The second line of defense of Russian troops in the Zaporozhye region is also quite powerful: although the density of minefields there is less, their number is still large. In addition, the enemy had a year to dig in, said Alexander Shtupun, spokesman for the Tauride Defense Forces. According to him, there can be whole labyrinths on the second line. "The only thing that can play into our hands is that the trenches, trenches and ceilings are not so strong," he added.
08:27 Ukrainian troops are successful in the direction of Rabotino - Novoprokopovka in the Melitopol direction, they are fixed on the achieved lines, said the speaker of the General Staff Pavel Kovalchuk.
08:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 5:
- personnel - about 265,680 (+560) people,
- tanks - 4489 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 8670 (+7),
- artillery systems - 5649 (+38),
- MLRS - 747 (+6),
- air defense systems - 504 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 4512 (+31),
- cruise missiles - 1447 (+0),
- ships/boats - 19 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 8175 (+26),
- special equipment - 851 (+4).
07:35 During the day, 29 clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report. In particular, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack in the Limansky direction - in the areas of Novoegorovka and Belogorovka of the Luhansk region, in Maryinsky - in the Maryinka region of the Donetsk region. In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces continue their offensive south of Bakhmut, repulsed the attacks of Russian troops north of Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region.
05:46 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of the "Ukrainian drone" over the Kaluga region. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that another drone flying towards Moscow was shot down in the Tver region near Zavidovo. As a result of the fall of the wreckage of a drone in the Istra district of the Moscow region, a "household facility" was damaged. About 40 flights were delayed and two canceled at Moscow airports.